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ReFLEX Orkney Launches Innovative Green Energy Services for Orkney

Orkney is once again leading the drive to net zero and supporting UK government plans for a green industrial revolution with the launch of new green local energy services.

1 Dec 2020

Grassland Restoration in Semi-Arid Regions can Mitigate Climate Change Effects

A recent study showed how, contrary to encroachment by the invasive alien tree species Prosopis julifora (referred to as “Mathenge” in Kenya or “Promi” in Baringo), the revival of grasslands in tropical semi-arid areas can alleviate the effects of climate change as well as restore important benefits typically provided by healthy grasslands for agro-pastoralist and pastoralist communities.

25 Nov 2020

Current Earth System Models Have Largely Over-Estimated Water Stress in Tropical Forests

Forests can help mitigate climate change, by taking in carbon dioxide during photosynthesis and storing it in their biomass (tree trunks, roots, etc.). In fact, forests currently take in around 25-30% of our human-generated carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.

23 Nov 2020

Not so Fast: Modeling Shows Ecosystems Can Survive Environmental Change — Up to a Point

A Skoltech researcher and her colleagues from Canada and Chile experimented with mathematical evolutionary models to explore how well ecosystems can keep up with changing environmental conditions — a question all too relevant in our current ecological situation.

18 Nov 2020

Artificial Coastal Lighting can Disrupt Coral Reproduction

According to a new study, in coastal regions, pollution by artificial light interrupts coral reproduction, which relies on natural light sources to regulate their behavioral, physiological, and biological activities.

17 Nov 2020

Arctic Researchers Reveal Unseasonably Warm Ocean Temperatures and Active Ecosystem

Arctic researchers Jacqueline Grebmeier and Lee Cooper have been visiting the Bering and Chukchi seas off Alaska for nearly 30 years, collecting information about the biological diversity of the watery world under the sea ice to understand how marine ecosystems are responding to environmental changes.

12 Nov 2020

Researchers Figure Out the Reasons for Death of Amazon Trees

The speed at which trees die—and the reason for their death—will ultimately govern the Amazon forest’s capacity to store carbon in a changing climate.

10 Nov 2020

Climate Change Predicted to Worsen Habitat Loss for Various Species

According to new research, birds, amphibians, and mammals around the world have lost, on average, 18% of their natural habitat range due to variations in land use and climate change.

9 Nov 2020

Climate Change Will Have an Increasing Impact on Species' Geographical Ranges

Mammals, birds and amphibians worldwide have lost on average 18% of their natural habitat range as a result of changes in land use and climate change, a new study has found. In a worst-case scenario this loss could increase to 23% over the next 80 years.

6 Nov 2020

Ninety Years of Data Reveals the Impacts of Global Warming on Phytoplankton Community

Understanding the impacts of global warming on phytoplankton- the foundation of marine ecosystems -is critical to predicting changes in future biodiversity, ocean productivity, and ultimately fisheries production.

3 Nov 2020