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New Model Shows How Giant Antarctic Icebergs Drift Over Time

Some icebergs that break off of Antarctica are massive - the size of New York City - but previously these floating cities of freshwater were largely ignored in climate models.

17 Dec 2020

Careful Foresight and Planning can Help Balance Climate, Economic Goals in Developing Nations

Developing nations have an opportunity to avoid long-term dependence on fossil fuel-burning infrastructure as they move toward economic stability, even if they are slow to cut carbon emissions, say the authors of a new paper in Environmental Research Letters.

17 Dec 2020

New Research on Forest Loss, Peatland Degradation can Help Quantify Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Land use and land-use change are thought to be responsible for about 23% of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. But nailing down this number with certainty has been hampered by a lack of data in many key regions of the tropics where forests are being replaced by agriculture and where other activities are degrading forests.

17 Dec 2020

Chestnut-Crowned Babbler Birds Fall into an "Ecological Trap"

Animals can fall into an "ecological trap" by altering their behaviour in the "wrong direction" in response to climate change, researchers say.

17 Dec 2020

Study Highlights Link Between Atmospheric Pollutants and COVID-19 Incidence

A thorough study targeted the probable connection between a low air quality index and COVID-19 spread in Italy, in Q2 of 2020.

17 Dec 2020

Study Shows No-Meat Diet is not a Blanket Solution to the Climate Crisis

People living in industrialized regions such as Europe or the United States are often encouraged to consume less meat and animal-based foods to ensure a healthier and lower-emission diet.

17 Dec 2020

Central Asia’s River Civilizations Vanished due to Climate Change, not Mongol Invasion

According to a new study, the long-held view that Central Asia’s medieval river civilizations were destroyed directly due to the Mongol invasion in the early 13th century CE is not right.

16 Dec 2020

Research Highlights the Shift in People's Attitudes About Climate Change

Longstanding skepticism among Texans toward the climate movement has shifted, and attitudes in the nation's leading energy-producing state now mirror those in the rest of the United States.

16 Dec 2020

Greater Melting of Greenland Ice Sheet Could Contribute to Sea Level Rise of 18 cm in 2100

A new study, headed by researchers from the Universities of Liège and Oslo, applying the latest climate models, of which the MAR predicts a 60% greater melting of the Greenland ice sheet than previously predicted. Data that will be included in the next IPCC report. This study is published in Nature Communications.

16 Dec 2020

Researchers Find Evidence of Widespread "Underfilling" of Potential Climatic Habitats

Forecasts predicting where plants and animals will inhabit over time rely primarily on information about their current climate associations, but that only plays a partial role.

15 Dec 2020