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April 23, 2024

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Unique Field Study Shows How Climate Change Affects Fire-Impacted Forests

Apr. 17, 2024 — During the unusually dry year of 2018, Sweden was hit by numerous forest fires. A research team has investigated how climate change affects recently burnt boreal forests and their ability to absorb carbon ...

Substantial Global Cost of Climate Inaction

Apr. 17, 2024 — Pioneering study reveals that limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius could reduce the global economic costs of climate change by two thirds. If warming continues to 3 degrees Celsius, global GDP will decrease by up to 10 percent -- with the ...

Impact of Climate Change on Marine Life Much Bigger Than Previously Known

Apr. 9, 2024 — Fish and invertebrate animals are far more affected by warmer and more acidic seawater than was previously known. The big gain of the new method is that more details become known about effects of climate change on ...

How Climate Change Will Impact Food Production and Financial Institutions

Apr. 8, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new method to predict the financial impacts climate change will have on agriculture, which can help support food security and financial stability for countries increasingly prone to climate ...

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Boreal Forest and Tundra Regions Worst Hit Over Next 500 Years of Climate Change, Study Shows

Apr. 8, 2024 — Modelling climate change over a 500 year period shows that much of the boreal forest, the Earth's northernmost forests and most significant provider ...

Ocean Floor a 'Reservoir' of Plastic Pollution

Apr. 4, 2024 — New science has taken a deep dive into plastic waste, providing the first estimate of how much ends up on the sea ...

Are Universities Connected to Local Sustainability? A New Study Suggests Yes...and No.

Apr. 3, 2024 — A new study finds that universities scoring strongly on measures of sustainability are associated with innovation and economic growth in their ...

Gloom and Doom Warnings About Climate Change Do Not Work

Apr. 2, 2024 — How do you spread a message about climate change? According to an international study involving 59,000 participants, some tactics may actually reduce ...

How Extratropical Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions Can Contribute to the Variability of Jet Streams in the Northern Hemisphere

Mar. 28, 2024 — Ocean-atmosphere coupling, the exchange in energy between the ocean and atmosphere, influences teleconnection patterns, the climate effects across ...

North American Cities May See a Major Species Turnover by the End of the Century

Mar. 27, 2024 — Climate change may dramatically affect the animal species observed in North American cities, according to a new ...

Global Study of Coastal Seas as Carbon Dioxide Reservoirs

Mar. 25, 2024 — Coastal seas form a complex transition zone between the two largest CO2 sinks in the global carbon cycle: land and ocean. Ocean researchers have now succeeded for the first time in investigating the ...

Mapping the Future's Sweet Spot for Clean Energy and Biodiversity

Mar. 8, 2024 — A new study of Joshua trees, kit foxes and solar energy developments highlights the need to consider climate-induced range shifts for species as we expand clean ...

New Study Reveals Insight Into Which Animals Are Most Vulnerable to Extinction Due to Climate Change

Mar. 7, 2024 — In a new study, researchers have used the fossil record to better understand what factors make animals more vulnerable to extinction from climate ...

Gen Z's Climate Anxiety Is Real and Needs Action -- For Everyone's Wellbeing

Mar. 5, 2024 — Young people have major concerns about climate change, which is having a significant impact on their lives and could have broader consequences ...

Companies Ignoring Climate Risks Get Punished by Markets, New Study Reveals

Apr. 2, 2024 — Companies that proactively manage climate risks boost their valuations, while those with a passive stance are discounted in the equity market, according to new ...

Climate Change Policies Lose Popularity When Combined With Pausing Regulations or Social Justice

Mar. 27, 2024 — Legislators love bundling things together. It lets them accomplish more with less hassle and attempt to make legislation more appealing to a broader group. But a new study suggests that this can ...

Plant Lavender, Marjoram and Ivy on Your Green Wall to Clean Up the Air

Mar. 5, 2024 — Green walls can strip pollution from the air -- and some plants do it better than others, according to new research. Researchers planted 10 species on a custom-built 1.4m green ...

How Climate Change Risks Increase at a National Scale as the Level of Global Warming Increases

Feb. 29, 2024 — Researchers have quantified how climate change risks to human and natural systems increase at a national scale as the level of global warming increases. A collection of eight studies -- all focusing ...

Does Russia Stand to Benefit from Climate Change?

Feb. 21, 2024 — There exists a narrative about climate change that says there are winners and losers -- with Russia being one of the countries that stand to benefit from its effects. In a new study, researchers ...

Psychology Study Unearths Ways to Bolster Global Climate Awareness and Climate Action

Feb. 7, 2024 — An international team of scientists has created a tool that can aid in increasing climate awareness and climate action globally by highlighting messaging themes shown to be effective through ...

Death Toll Shows Extreme Air Pollution Events a Growing Urban Threat

Jan. 31, 2024 — New research has estimated that 1454 avoidable deaths (one person every five days) occurred in Australian capital cities in the past 20 years because of fine particle air pollution from extreme ...

Education and Information Can Increase the Acceptance of Climate Policies

Jan. 29, 2024 — An important question for policymakers worldwide is how to make climate and environmental policies acceptable among the populations. A new study sheds light on the preferences in five East African ...

Chats With AI Shift Attitudes on Climate Change, Black Lives Matter

Jan. 26, 2024 — People who were more skeptical of human-caused climate change or the Black Lives Matter movement who took part in conversation with a popular AI chatbot were disappointed with the experience but left ...

Ice Age Could Help Predict Oceans' Response to Global Warming

Jan. 21, 2024 — A new way to measure the ocean oxygen level and its connections with carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere during the last ice age could help explain the role oceans played in past glacial ...

Focus on Biological Processes Does Not Capture the Whole Picture

Jan. 10, 2024 — The ocean plays a crucial role in the storage of carbon dioxide (CO2). The so-called marine biological carbon pump is an important research topic in this context. However a key component is often ...

Understanding Climate Mobilities: New Study Examines Perspectives from South Florida Practitioners

Jan. 2, 2024 — A recent study assessed the perspectives of 76 diverse South Florida climate adaptation professionals. A new study explores the expectations and concerns of practitioners from the private sector, ...

Coral Atoll Islands May Outpace Sea-Level Rise With Local Ecological Restoration, Scientists Say

Dec. 18, 2023 — Ecological restoration may save coral atoll islands from the rising seas of climate change, according to an international team of scientists, conservationists, and an indigenous ...

People Who See Climate Change as a Health Threat Show More Interest in Cancer Screening

Dec. 13, 2023 — Researchers' findings support developing public health interventions that incorporate components of environmental health literacy alongside cancer screening ...

Coral Reefs in Peril from Record-Breaking Ocean Heat

Dec. 8, 2023 — Record breaking marine heatwaves will cause devastating mass coral bleaching worldwide in the next few years, according to a coral reef ...

Greenhouse Gases in Oceans Are Altered by Climate Change Impact on Microbes

Dec. 6, 2023 — The ocean is a global life-support system, and climate change causes such as ocean warming, acidification, deoxygenation, and nitrogen-deposition alter the delicate microbial population in oceans. ...

The Ocean May Be Storing More Carbon Than Estimated in Earlier Studies

Dec. 6, 2023 — The ocean's capacity to store atmospheric carbon dioxide is some 20% greater than the estimates contained in the latest IPCC report. Scientists looked at the role played by plankton in the ...

Botany Must Feature More Prominently on the School Curriculum to Promote Awareness of Climate Change, Study Warns

Dec. 4, 2023 — Children must be taught more about the importance of plants if education about climate change and sustainability is to be effective, experts have ...

Protect Delicate Polar Ecosystems by Mapping Biodiversity

Nov. 20, 2023 — Concerted action is required to mitigate the impact of warming on polar ecosystems and sustainably manage these unique habitats. ...

Climate Change Effects Hit Marine Ecosystems in Multiple Waves, According to Marine Ecologists

Nov. 16, 2023 — A new approach to examining the effects of climate change on marine ecosystems may provide a more accurate understanding of climate change responses -- and predictions for future consequences -- ...