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Climate Change Likely to Trigger the Possibility of the Next Pandemic

As continuous warming occurs in the Earth’s climate, scientists forecast wild animals will be compelled to shift their habitat, probably to areas with large human populations. This considerably increases the threat of a viral jump to humans that could result in the next pandemic.

29 Apr 2022

Study Offers Pathways to Improve Monitoring and Evaluation of Climate-Informed Conservation

A new study offers pathways to improve monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of climate-informed conservation while revealing how practitioners are currently monitoring conservation adaptation projects.

28 Apr 2022

Rainforest Birds in Decline in Black Summer Bushfire Aftermath

Functional bird populations vital to rainforest regeneration are struggling to recover in the years after the black summer bushfires devastated Australia, according to a study from the Centre for Ecosystem Science at UNSW Sydney.

28 Apr 2022

Chemistry of Ancient Oak Trees Provides Clues About Past Climate

Researchers will soon be able to reconstruct the climate of north-west Europe including the UK over the last 4500 years, and to date wooden buildings and objects more accurately, by analysing the chemistry of ancient oak trees, through a new Swansea-led project just selected for €3 million in European funding.

27 Apr 2022

Scientists Assess the Role of Future Global Biodiversity Targets for Climate Protection

When the global community is expected to meet for the second part of the UN Biodiversity Conference in Kunming, China, in autumn, it must also adopt the next generation of UN biodiversity targets.

27 Apr 2022

New Global Forecasts Could Help Ocean-Dependent Communities Anticipate the Effects of Marine Heatwaves

Researchers have developed global forecasts that can provide up to a year's notice of marine heatwaves, sudden and pronounced increases in ocean temperatures that can dramatically affect ocean ecosystems.

21 Apr 2022

Deforestation of Indigenous Lands Endangers Brazil’s Ability to Meet Climate Change Mitigation Targets

Indigenous lands in the Brazilian Amazon are under constant pressure, and deforestation of these areas has accelerated in recent years. Some of them, such as Apyterewa Indigenous Territory in Pará state, are particularly affected, endangering Brazil's ability to meet the targets to which it is committed internationally in terms of combating deforestation and mitigating the impact of climate change.

20 Apr 2022

ORNL Researchers Investigate the Effects of Manganese on Soil Carbon and Climate

While most people think first of atmospheric carbon emissions from fossil fuels when considering climate change, the planet's soil actually stores more carbon and could become a major source of carbon release or a mitigation tactic in the years ahead.

19 Apr 2022

Carbon Neutrality Widely Associated with Climate, Ecology, Energy, Environment, and Society

The aim of carbon neutrality is considered to be a combined and highly complicated problem that has been extensively linked with ecology, climate, energy, environment, and society.

11 Apr 2022

"Hotter-Drought Fingerprint" Reveals Link Between Global Forest Mortality and Climate Extremes

How hot is too hot, and how dry is too dry, for the Earth's forests? A new study from an international team of researchers found the answers – by looking at decades of dying trees.

6 Apr 2022