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Food security emerging as major climate change issue
A new report looking into how climate change will affect food production and food security warns that nothing less than a “complete recalibration” of where specific crops are grown and livestock are...
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Sea-level rise predictions may be missing critical factors
Sea levels are rising faster than the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicted and new work presented at a meeting of The Geological Society of America suggests that previously...
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Wild Arabica coffee facing extinction
Scientists who have predicted the possible extinction of wild Arabica coffee (Coffea Arabica) within 70 years say urgent conservation measures are needed to future-proof Arabica’s genetic diversity and...
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Tree plumbing stress approaching tipping point
The hydraulic system of trees is so finely-tuned that predicted increases in drought due to climate change may lead to catastrophic failure in many species. That’s according to a new study that found...
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New evidence for climate change creating modern humans
While archaeological and genetic evidence suggest that Homo sapiens originated in Africa around 200,000 years ago, it is more difficult to identify when modern human behaviors emerged. Intriguingly,...
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Mammals may shrink with warming climate
Mammal body size decreased significantly during two ancient global warming events, say paleontologists from the University of Michigan who believe that similar changes are possible in response to...
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Strangely, the loss of forests may actually be cooling the planet
An intriguing study from Yale University shows that large-scale forest losses over the last 150 years – largely through the conversion of forests to cropland – produced a net global cooling effect of...
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Lightning increasing with global warming
A new analysis of climate change models predicts a 50 percent increase in lightning strikes across the United States during this century as a result of warming temperatures associated with climate...
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Chinese tree planting reverses global forest loss
Although massive vegetation loss is still occurring in Asia and South America, an analysis of 20 years of satellite data has revealed that the regrowth of forests in China, Australia, and Africa mean...
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A new way to fight climate change: Trap carbon dioxide in volcanic rocks
Climate change refers to the fluctuation of the climate system caused by the energy entering and leaving Earth. The greenhouse effect, which refers to how greenhouse gases (GHGs) act like a blanket...
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