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Study: The Average American Underestimates How Much Fellow Citizens Support Climate Policy

Just after the U.S. Congress passed the nation's most substantial legislation aimed at battling climate change, a new study shows that the average American badly underestimates how much their fellow citizens support substantive climate policy.

24 Aug 2022

Gradual Cooling of Ocean Temperatures has Increased Body Size of Fishes

Earth's geological history is characterized by many dynamic climate shifts that are often associated with large changes in temperature.

24 Aug 2022

The Cenozoic Climate Change: The Influence of Tibetan Uplift and Global Cooling

The Paleoecology Research Group (PRG) of the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), is in command of this study.

24 Aug 2022

New Model Reveals Wide-Ranging Impacts of Climate Change on Australia’s Food Supply Chains

New University of Sydney research published in Nature Food today has modelled the wide-ranging impacts of climate change and extreme weather events on Australia's food systems and supply chains, identifying potential cascading repercussions including job and income loss as well as a loss in nutrient availability and diet quality.

22 Aug 2022

Climate Change may Create Economic Inequality Between Farmers in Wheat -Exporting and -Importing Countries

Wheat is a key source of nutrition for people across the globe, providing 20% of calories and protein for 3.4 billion people worldwide. Even if we meet climate mitigation targets and stay under 2°C of warming, climate change is projected to significantly alter the yield and price of wheat in the coming years.

22 Aug 2022

An Attempt to Identify Species Resistance Towards Climate Change

A recent study looks at how different mammals respond to climate change. Bears and bison are examples of long-lived, low offspring producing species that are more adaptable than small, short-lived creatures like mice and lemmings.

22 Aug 2022

Mysterious Lives of Sharks and Rays Revealed in New Study

Conservation scientists have unlocked the mysteries of how shark and ray species move up and down the ocean water column, in efforts to better understand them and secure their future.

22 Aug 2022

Could Propane Be the Secret to Greener Air Conditioning?

A recent study led by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria, suggests that the secret to greener air conditioning could lie in using propane, a clean-burning alternative fuel, as a refrigerant.

18 Aug 2022

Miami Residents Devise Solutions to Combat the Effects of Climate Change in Their Communities

The days have been unusually hot, even by Texas standards. That is how Merline Leonce, who grew up in the Gulf Coast city of Baytown, just east of Houston, describes the sweltering heat that has enveloped Miami this summer. "And the humidity," she said, "which we didn't get a lot of in Texas, makes it even worse."

18 Aug 2022