How plants cope with the cold light of day, and why it matters for future crops
On bright chilly mornings you can either snuggle down under the duvet or leap up and seize the day.
On bright chilly mornings you can either snuggle down under the duvet or leap up and seize the day.
Plants & Animals
Mar 30, 2023
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About 56 million years ago, volcanoes quickly dumped massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, heating the Earth rapidly.
Earth Sciences
Oct 11, 2022
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Scientists are ringing alarm bells about a significant new threat to U.S. water quality: as winters warm due to climate change, they are unleashing large amounts of nutrient pollution into lakes, rivers, and streams.
Environment
Oct 5, 2022
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Innovative experiments using temperature-controlled field plots have helped to explain the link between early winter temperatures and yield in some of our most marketable arable crops.
Ecology
Sep 19, 2022
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International research led by Dr. Tom Van der Stocken of the VUB Biology Department examined 21st century changes in ocean-surface temperature, salinity, and density, across mangrove forests worldwide. The study suggests ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 30, 2022
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More areas of year-round unfrozen ground have begun dotting Interior and Northwest Alaska and will continue to increase in extent due to climate change, according to new research by University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 7, 2022
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University of Adelaide research shows the effect of warming is becoming increasingly obvious as water heats up off the coasts of Australia—and is especially noticeable in the way tropical fish are behaving as they migrate ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 28, 2022
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Lakes in the Northern Hemisphere are warming six times faster since 1992 than any other time period in the last 100 years, research led by York University has found.
Earth Sciences
Oct 21, 2021
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Eerie wails, explosive trumpets and ghostly moans. The sounds from the underwater recorders had a story to tell, even without a single intelligible word: the whales had stayed put.
Plants & Animals
Apr 21, 2021
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As the planet warms, scientists expect that mountain snowpack should melt progressively earlier in the year. However, observations in the U.S. show that as temperatures have risen, snowpack melt is relatively unaffected in ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 1, 2021
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