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Researchers Reconstruct Demographic Histories to Understand How Kea Populations Respond to Ice Age Climate Change

With global warming decreasing the size of New Zealand's alpine zone, a University of Otago study found out what this means for our altitude-loving kea.

28 May 2021

Seabirds are Being Threatened by Climate Change, Human Activity

Many seabirds in the Northern Hemisphere are struggling to breed -- and in the Southern Hemisphere, they may not be far behind.

28 May 2021

Study Shows that Some Species of Forams Could Thrive with Climate Change

With the expansion of oxygen-depleted waters in the oceans due to climate change, some species of foraminifera that thrive in those conditions could be big winners, biologically speaking.

28 May 2021

Existing Evidence of Climate Change Will Never Sway Climate Skeptics

Climate skeptics who aren't persuaded by the existing evidence from climate change are unlikely to change their minds for many years, according to a newly published quantitative study by a University of Oregon environmental economist

28 May 2021

Plastic Waste may Provide an Economic Boon for Lower-Income Countries

In the past several years, rich nations have shipped plastic trash, and the environmental issues associated with it, to poorer countries.

28 May 2021

Managing Climate Change is Key to Survival of Coral Reefs

Scientists from Australia have recently announced a sharp fall in the abundance of coral along the Great Barrier Reef.

28 May 2021

Corals and Their Symbiotic Algae May Have Capacity to Adjust to Current Ocean Warming

One of the most important and widespread reef-building corals, known as cauliflower coral, exhibits strong partnerships with certain species of symbiotic algae, and these relationships have persisted through periods of intense climate fluctuations over the last 1.5 million years, according to a new study led by researchers at Penn State.

27 May 2021

Study Shows Existence of Climate-Change Refugia in Dry-Forest Region

Several indicators point to the adverse impacts of climate change on the planet's vegetation, but a little-known positive fact is the existence of climate-change refugia in which trees are far less affected by the gradual rise in temperatures and changing rainfall regimes.

27 May 2021

Study Identifies Key Issues that Should be Considered When Targeting Greenhouse Gas Emissions

"If you can't measure it, you can't improve it". This concept is also true within the context of climate policy, where the achievement of the objectives of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is dependent on the ability of the international community to accurately measure greenhouse gas emission trends and, consequently, to alter these trends.

27 May 2021