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Exploring Hg Mass Balance in Tropical Forests Along a Latitudinal Gradient

Mercury (Hg), as a global pollutant, is directly emitted into the air — from geogenic and anthropogenic sources — and into the earlier deposited Hg in natural surfaces.

25 Jan 2022

New Review Explores the Effects of Climate Change on Tropical Cyclone Intensity

Researchers are confident that a climate change is driving an increase in tropical cyclone intensity, but a great deal of detail about this transformation is unknown, limiting society's ability to adapt. As a result, a group of tropical cyclone researchers have performed a review of all that we do know about the subject in order to precisely identify holes in our understanding and propose how the field can move forward.

25 Jan 2022

Study Highlights the Positive Effects of Additional Green Structures in Cities

Green spaces in cities have a number of positive effects: they're good for our physical and mental health, they're good for the environment, and they can even help fight off the effects of climate change.

25 Jan 2022

Soils at the Root of Ecosystem Restoration

Restoration of degraded landscapes takes time and patience, but residual soil deficiencies surprised researchers who compared the results of a six-year native planting project in South Australia.

25 Jan 2022

Volcanic Eruptions, Climate Change may Erase Island Nations and Cultures in the Pacific and Western Indian Oceans

While the aftermath of an undersea volcanic eruption and the following tsunami garner much attention as the waves crash around inhabited islands, like in Tonga, an expert at West Virginia University says the combination of those hard to predict eruptions and climate change will eventually erase island nations and their cultures in the Pacific and western Indian oceans.

24 Jan 2022

Mediterranean Coral Populations Gravely Affected by Climate Change

A new study has discovered that marine heatwaves linked with the climate crisis are causing a decline in coral populations in the Mediterranean, the biomass of which in a few cases has been decreased by 80-90%.

20 Jan 2022

New Clues Discovered for the Abrupt End of Biogenic Bloom

Drilling deep inside into sediments on the ocean floor has helped scientists to travel back in time. Currently, a research group headed by the Uppsala University presents fresh clues as to when and why a period often cited as the “biogenic bloom” came to a sudden end.

19 Jan 2022

Geography of the Winter Olympic Games Altered by Climate Change

Climate change will limit where the Winter Olympics can be held as winter changes across the Northern Hemisphere, according to a study by an international team of researchers led by the University of Waterloo.

19 Jan 2022

Just-Released CC-ARP-CE Tool Helps Improve Water Management and Resilience to Extreme Weather Events

An online platform developed with the aim to support stakeholders of water management in integrated strategies and actions to adapt to climate change and to prevent and reduce the associated risks: the just-released CC-ARP-CE tool is the TEACHER-CE (joinT Efforts to increase water management Adaptation to climate CHanges in central EuRope) project's main output.

19 Jan 2022

New Water-Power-Economy Model to Explore Climate Impacts on Electricity Demand and Cost

Around the world, energy systems are increasingly impacted by the effects of a changing climate. Energy systems, especially the electric-power system, are vulnerable to natural stressors such as wildfires, severe storms, extreme temperatures and long-term disruptions of the hydrological cycle.

19 Jan 2022