/channels/taxonomy/term/5805/all en /channels/channels/news/ecological-rule-breaker-shows-effects-climate-change-body-size-evolution-343871 <p>Does evolution follow certain rules? Can these rules be predicted? Southeast Asia’s tree shrews break multiple rules when it comes to body size variation – with an unexpected twist – according to researchers from ���ϲ����� University, University of Cambridge, and Yale University. The <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-23774-w">findings</a> shed new light on the effects of climate change on the evolution of body size in animals.</p> Tue, 29 Nov 2022 14:24:09 +0000 webfull 184914 at /channels /channels/channels/news/2500-earth-could-be-alien-humans-334080 <p>To fully grasp and plan for climate impacts under any scenario, researchers and policymakers must look well beyond the 2100 benchmark. Unless CO2 emissions drop significantly, global warming by 2500 will make the Amazon barren, the American Midwest tropical, and India too hot to live in, according to a team of international scientists.</p> Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:18:17 +0000 webfull 173868 at /channels /channels/channels/news/mountain-fires-burning-higher-unprecedented-rates-331540 <p>Forest fires have crept higher up mountains over the past few decades, scorching areas previously too wet to burn, according to researchers from ���ϲ����� University. As wildfires advance uphill, a staggering 11% of all Western U.S. forests are now at risk.</p> Tue, 15 Jun 2021 15:00:00 +0000 webfull 171149 at /channels /channels/channels/news/climate-change-threshold-dangerous-warming-will-likely-be-crossed-between-2027-2042-327290 <p>The threshold for dangerous global warming will likely be crossed between 2027 and 2042 – a much narrower window than the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s estimate of between now and 2052. In a study published in <i><a href="http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-020-05521-x">Climate Dynamics</a></i>, researchers from ���ϲ����� University introduce a new and more precise way to project the Earth’s temperature. Based on historical data, it considerably reduces uncertainties compared to previous approaches.</p> Mon, 21 Dec 2020 16:24:38 +0000 webfull 166429 at /channels /channels/channels/news/usa-today-arctic-will-see-ice-free-summers-2050-globe-warms-study-says-321799 <p>The Arctic Ocean will be ice-free in the summer within the next 30 years, a study says, which will result in "devastating consequences for the Arctic ecosystem," according to ���ϲ����� University in Montreal. Sea ice is frozen ocean water that melts each summer, then refreezes each winter. The amount of summer sea ice in the Arctic has been steadily shrinking over the past few decades because of global warming. Since satellite records began in 1979, summer Arctic ice has lost 40% of its area and up to 70% of its volume, the Guardian said.</p> Thu, 23 Apr 2020 15:21:54 +0000 webfull 160292 at /channels /channels/channels/news/global-warming-hits-sea-creatures-hardest-296416 <p>The greater vulnerability of sea creatures may significantly impact human communities that rely on fish and shellfish for food and economic activity, according to the study published in the journal Nature. </p> Wed, 24 Apr 2019 17:45:56 +0000 webfull 148608 at /channels /channels/news/global-warming-just-giant-natural-fluctuation-235236 Sat, 03 May 2014 15:55:54 +0000 webfull 102733 at /channels /channels/news/new-permafrost-forming-around-shrinking-arctic-lakes-237010 <p><strong>By Katherine Gombay - News - June 10</strong></p> <p>Researchers from ���ϲ����� and the U.S. Geological Survey, more used to measuring thawing permafrost than its expansion, have made a surprising discovery. There is new permafrost forming around Twelvemile Lake in the interior of Alaska. But they have also quickly concluded that, given the current rate of climate change, it won’t last beyond the end of this century. Tue, 10 Jun 2014 14:30:10 +0000 webfull 103171 at /channels /channels/news/mcgill-nonlinear-physics-professor-and-climatologist-shaun-lovejoy-global-warming-not-natural-occurr-237045 <h3>Opinion: Research Shows the Global Warming isn't natural</h3> <blockquote> <p>Published on June 9, 2014 | <a href="http://www.montrealgazette.com/" target="_blank">The Gazette</a></p> <p>by: Shaun Lovejoy</p> </blockquote> <p>Last year, the Quebec Skeptics Society laid down a challenge: “If anthropogenic global warming is as strong as scientists claim, then why do they need supercomputers to demonstrate it?”</p> <p>My immediate response was: “They don’t.”</p> Thu, 12 Jun 2014 03:09:20 +0000 webfull 103211 at /channels /channels/news/global-warming-felt-deepest-reaches-ocean-233810 <p> Mon, 03 Mar 2014 16:30:08 +0000 webfull 101457 at /channels /channels/news/global-warming-%E2%80%98pause%E2%80%99-reflects-natural-fluctuation-237538 <p>Statistical analysis of average global temperatures between 1998 and 2013 shows that the slowdown in global warming during this period is consistent with natural variations in temperature, according to research by ���ϲ����� physics professor Shaun Lovejoy.</p> <p> Mon, 21 Jul 2014 18:06:22 +0000 webfull 103593 at /channels /channels/news/pathogens-could-be-freed-thawing-permafrost-scientists-warn-234183 <h3>French researchers are cautioning that the mining and drilling of northern regions could potentially free dormant pathogens out of the frozen soil.</h3> <blockquote> <p>Published on March 4, 2014 | <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/" target="_blank">The Globe and Mail</a><br />by Tu Thanh Ha</p> </blockquote> <p>French researchers who have revived a 30,000-year-old giant virus from a sample of Siberian permafrost are cautioning that the mining and drilling of northern regions could potentially free dormant pathogens out of the frozen soil.</p> Wed, 19 Mar 2014 04:54:48 +0000 webfull 101903 at /channels /channels/news/winds-hide-atlantic-variability-europe%E2%80%99s-winters-259681 <p><em><strong>By Chris Chipello, <a href="/newsroom">���ϲ����� Newsroom</a></strong></em></p> <p><em>Study reveals how wind patterns change along with sea-surface temperatures</em></p> <p>Shifting winds may explain why long-term fluctuations in North Atlantic sea surface temperatures have no apparent influence on Europe’s wintertime temperatures. <span>The findings, published in </span><em>Nature Communications</em><span>, could also have implications for how Europe’s climate will evolve amid global warming.</span></p> Tue, 15 Mar 2016 14:13:30 +0000 webfull 117384 at /channels /channels/news/global-warming-just-giant-natural-fluctuation-235311 <h3>Statistical analysis rules out natural-warming hypothesis with more than 99% certainty</h3> <blockquote> <p>Published on April 11, 2014 | <a href="/research/" target="_blank">���ϲ����� Research</a><br /><br /></p> </blockquote> <p>An analysis of temperature data since 1500 all but rules out the possibility that global warming in the industrial era is just a natural fluctuation in the earth’s climate, according to a new study by ���ϲ����� University physics professor Shaun Lovejoy.</p> Tue, 15 Apr 2014 05:20:36 +0000 webfull 102441 at /channels