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Study Sheds Light on Global Vulnerability of Crop Yields to Climate Change

Shifts in weather patterns induced by climate change will increase extreme heat and reduce rainfall across major crop growing regions, with impacts on agricultural production.

15 Jun 2021

Mains to Rains Website Promotes Improved Water Management Practices in Gardening

Researchers at Cranfield University have worked with colleagues at the Royal Horticultural Society to launch a new website aimed at saving water in the garden.

15 Jun 2021

Global Warming Causes Unprecedented Rates of Fires in Rocky Mountain Forests

Last fall, the Mullen fire west of Laramie raged for the better part of two months, burning more than 176,000 acres and 70 structures in Wyoming's Carbon and Albany counties, and in Jackson County, Colo.

15 Jun 2021

Sustainable Water Management can Preserve Biodiversity 'Hotspots' Along California's Streams

A study of woodland ecosystems that provide habitat for rare and endangered species along streams and rivers throughout California reveals that some of these ecologically important areas are inadvertently benefitting from water that humans are diverting for their own needs.

15 Jun 2021

Methane-Eating Microbes in the Ocean Help Regulate Earth's Temperatures

Methane is a strong greenhouse gas that plays a key role in Earth's climate. Anytime we use natural gas, whether we light up our kitchen stove or barbeque, we are using methane.

15 Jun 2021

Effective Adaptation can Counter the Effect of Climate Change on Crop Yield

Changes in weather patterns caused by climate change will not only lead to increased extreme heat but will also result in decreased rainfall across major crop-growing areas.

14 Jun 2021

Pine Island Glacier's Ice Shelf Could Disappear Much Sooner than Previously Estimated

For decades, the ice shelf helping to hold back one of the fastest-moving glaciers in Antarctica has gradually thinned

14 Jun 2021

Combination of Phenology and Range Shifts Helps Lepidoptera Species Adapt to Changing Climate

Climate change exerts great pressure for change on species and biodiversity.

11 Jun 2021

Dinosaurs had to Deal with Greater Seasonal Differences than Previously Thought

Palaeoclimatologists study climate of the geological past. Using an innovative technique, new research by an international research team led by Niels de Winter shows for the first time that dinosaurs had to deal with greater seasonal differences than previously thought.

11 Jun 2021

Study of Flooding During Hurricane Harvey Could Help in Quantifying Climate Change

How much do the effects of climate change contribute to extreme weather events? It's hard to say--the variables involved are plentiful, each event is unique, and we can only do so much to investigate what didn't happen.

11 Jun 2021