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European Spoonweed Population Provides Insights into How Plants Cope with Climate Change

As cold relics in an increasingly warming world, plants of the spoonweed group time and again quickly adapted to a changing climate during the Ice Ages of the last two million years.

22 Dec 2021

Desert Shrubs' Water Use Efficiency may not be Enough to Adapt to Long-Term Drying Trend

Shrubs in the desert Southwest have increased their water use efficiency at some of the highest rates ever observed to cope with a decades-long megadrought.

21 Dec 2021

Study Reveals Differences Between Shoot- and Root Phenology Due to Climate Change

A new synthesis conducted by a group of international scientists including Madhav P. Thakur from the University of Bern reveals mismatches between above- and belowground plant phenology due to climate change.

21 Dec 2021

Signs of Distress in Fish Evident Due to Global Warming, Ocean Acidification

A team of scientists from the University of Adelaide discovered that when fishes interact in groups, they are exhibiting signs of distress caused by ocean acidification and global warming.

20 Dec 2021

Human Disturbance Affecting Little Penguins

Flinders University ecologists are calling on summer holiday-goers to not interfere with wildlife and damage habitats, notably for shy animals such as little penguins.

20 Dec 2021

Massive Heatwaves Could Entirely Restructure the Size Distribution of Corals

Sometimes nature surprises you. That's what happened when a massive marine heatwave took hold in the waters around Moorea, French Polynesia, in late 2018. Fortunately, UC Santa Barbara researchers turned this event into an opportunity to investigate coral bleaching.

16 Dec 2021

Research Gives an Up-to-Date Picture of Events that Caused the Little Ice Age

New research from the University of Massachusetts Amherst provides a novel answer to one of the persistent questions in historical climatology, environmental history and the earth sciences: what caused the Little Ice Age? The answer, we now know, is a paradox: warming.

16 Dec 2021