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Temperature Shift Drives Call Change in Puerto Rico’s Frogs

The coqui frog is one of Puerto Rico's most iconic animals. It gets its name from its distinctive two-note call, "co-qui," which can be heard throughout the island every night.

11 May 2023

Survey: Many Floridians are Concerned About Human-Caused Climate Change

An increasing number of Floridians agree that human actions are causing climate change, including a record number of Florida Republicans, according to a new survey from Florida Atlantic University

11 May 2023

Argonne-Led Project Aims to Help Neighborhoods Understand and Adapt to Chicago’s Changing Climate

Climate change is bringing flooding, heat islands and extreme weather to Chicago. An Argonne-led project from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Urban Integrated Field Laboratory will help neighborhoods understand and adapt to the city’s changing climate.

9 May 2023

Climate Warming Reduces the Diversity of Soil Archaea

Led by Jizhong Zhou, Ph.D., the director of the Institute for Environmental Genomics at the University of Oklahoma, an international research team conducted a long term experiment that found that climate warming reduced the diversity of and significantly altered the community structure of soil archaea.

9 May 2023

International Project Aims to Build Community Resilience to Climate Change Effects

An international project to build community resilience to the effects of climate change, launched by Community Jameel and a research team at MIT, has been recognized as an innovation sprint at the 2023 summit of the United States' and United Arab Emirates' Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate (AIM4C).

9 May 2023

Research Shows Clear Evidence of Human "Fingerprint" on Climate Change

New research provides clear evidence of a human "fingerprint" on climate change and shows that specific signals from human activities have altered the temperature structure of Earth's atmosphere.

9 May 2023

UCI/NASA Team Uncovers a New Way in Which the Ice and Ocean Interact

While conducting a study of Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland, researchers at the University of California, Irvine and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory uncovered a previously unseen way in which the ice and ocean interact.

9 May 2023

Understanding Viral Infections Within Complex Microbial Food Webs

Microbes perform important functions in ecosystems, and these functions are shifting as a result of global warming. Scientists now know that most microorganisms are infected with viruses, but they know very little about how these viral infections can affect how microbes respond to warming.

9 May 2023

Carbon Capture: Decarbonizing the Chemical Industry

Researchers at Northwestern University (NU) have been working in collaboration with international partners to find ways to capture carbon and produce acetic acid out of carbon monoxide.

5 May 2023

Assessing 500,000-Year-Long Variations in Climate and Vegetation

Earth scientists from Heidelberg University investigated natural climate and vegetation variations over the last 500,000 years to forecast the effects of man-made climate change on Mediterranean ecosystems. Their main focus was the impact of these changes on the forests of the Mediterranean region.

3 May 2023