Category: Climate Change
Technology innovation gives government leverage to drive down emissions fast – here’s how
Jessika E. Trancik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology To avert the worst effects of climate change, global greenhouse gas emissions should fall at faster rates than…
Sea level rise is killing trees along the Atlantic coast, creating ‘ghost forests’ that are visible from space
Emily Ury, Duke University Trekking out to my research sites near North Carolina’s Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, I slog through knee-deep water on a…
Narwhal tusks tell a troubling tale
Narwhal diets are changing as the Arctic warms. MATT SIMON, WIRED.COM – 4/4/2021, 7:38 AM Researchers have long debated what the 10-foot-long tooth that erupts from a…
The US just set ambitious offshore wind power targets – what will it take to meet them?
Erin Baker, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Matthew Lackner, University of Massachusetts Amherst The United States’ offshore wind industry is tiny, with just seven wind…
Climate change has slashed global food productivity by more than 20% in the past 60 years, study reveals
Farmers are growing a fifth less food than if the weather were the same as in 1961 In warmer areas like Latin America and Africa,…
MONARCH Act Introduced to Ensure ‘Beloved Pollinator’ Is Around for Future Generations
“In only a few decades, a migration of millions has been reduced to less than two thousand butterflies.” Published on Wednesday, March 17, 2021 by Common…
The sustainable vegetables that thrive on a diet of fish poo
Hamish Cunningham, University of Sheffield and Benz Kotzen, University of Greenwich Who needs soil when you have a fish tank? “Aquaponics” combines growing plants in…
Risk versus reward on the high seas – skinny elephant seals trade safety for sustenance
Roxanne Beltran, University of California, Santa Cruz and Jessica Kendall-Bar, University of California, Santa Cruz Every year, northern elephant seals set off on a seven-month,…
Ancient leaves preserved under a mile of Greenland’s ice – and lost in a freezer for years – hold lessons about climate change
Andrew Christ, University of Vermont and Paul Bierman, University of Vermont In 1963, inside a covert U.S. military base in northern Greenland, a team of…
Feeding cows a few ounces of seaweed daily could sharply reduce their contribution to climate change
Ermias Kebreab, University of California, Davis and Breanna Roque, University of California, Davis Methane is a short-lived but powerful greenhouse gas and the second-largest contributor…