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ASM Report Examines the Relationship Between Microbes and Climate Change

The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has issued a new report, Microbes and Climate Change: Science, People, & Impacts, examining the relationship between microbes and climate change.

25 Apr 2022

Study Shows that Community-Based Climate Risk Management Committees Can Help Improve Farmer’s Harvests

One of the findings of the IPCC report, known as the Climate Change 2022: Impact, Adaptation, and Vulnerability report, is that enhanced design and delivery are required to level up the climate services, implying decision making is supported by the climate data. This has been reported by Dr Ana María Loboguerrero Rodríguez, the research director of climate action at the Alliance of Bioversity International and International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT).

21 Apr 2022

New Methodology for Robust Assessment of the Change in GHGs Induced by Dams

As far as dams are concerned, they are conventionally perceived as emitters of GHGs in big rivers.

20 Apr 2022

Researchers Created Artificial Rainfall to Examine its Effects on Plants

The mechanism present behind the good growth of plants is not about how much extra water is given to them, but when it is given, suggests new research performed at the University of California (UC Riverside).

19 Apr 2022

Microplastics are Finding Their Way into Human Food Supplies

Plastic rubbish has been found all over the place and currently, broken-down microplastics are discovered in variable concentrations in water and blue mussels and inside the intertidal zone at a few of the most famous and highly remote beaches in southern Australia.

19 Apr 2022

Adriatic Ecosystems Incredibly Resilient to Major Climatic Shifts, but Affected by Human-Induced Changes

An analysis of more than 70,000 fossils indicates that mollusk communities were incredibly resilient to major climatic shifts during the last ice age.

19 Apr 2022

Coral Reefs Subjected to Severe Destruction by Ocean Warming Over the Last Three to Four Decades, Study Finds

A range of considerable suggestions to safeguard, preserve, and study the world’s coral reefs–called the “canaries in the coal mine” of climate change—has been reported by an international group of environmental scientists.

18 Apr 2022

Amazon Rainforest is Under Increasing Threat from Changing Land Use, Study Finds

A new study indicates that the biggest peatlands in the Amazon rainforest, which maintain an immense and concentrated amount of carbon, fall under the increasing threat of modifying land use.

15 Apr 2022

Ocean Warming Likely to Shift Marine Ecosystems in Unforeseen Ways

Warming of the oceans due to climate change will mean fewer productive fish species to catch in the future, according to a new Rutgers study that found as temperatures warm, predator-prey interactions will prevent species from keeping up with the conditions where they could thrive.

13 Apr 2022

Researchers Attempt to Know More About the Lives of Stingrays in Seychelles

Several difficulties have been experienced by the stingrays, primarily due to overfishing. Researchers from the Save Our Seas Foundation D’Arros Research Centre (SOSF-DRC) and the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity have been making attempts to find out more regarding the lives of stingrays present in Seychelles.

13 Apr 2022