Many climate predictions focus on physical models like wind speed, temperatures and geochemistry, but significantly overlook how human behaviour responds to environmental change.
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Marine Ecosystem Survey Encounters a New Variable: Falling Ash from Los Angeles Fires
The devastating fires in Los Angeles have numerous secondary effects as scientists are finding out now off the coast of Southern California.
Botanic Gardens Must Team Up to Save Wild Plants From Extinction
The world’s botanic gardens must pull together to protect global plant biodiversity in the face of the extinction crisis, amid restrictions on wild-collecting, say researchers.
Unraveling the Connection Between Canadian Wildfires and Arctic Ice Clouds
Research reveals that aerosols from Canadian wildfires of summer 2023 contributed to the formation of ice clouds over the Arctic.
New Method Projects Very Likely Range of Future Sea-Level Rise
An interdisciplinary team of researchers from NTU Singapore, and Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), The Netherlands, has projected that if the rate of global CO2 emissions continues to increase and reaches a high emission scenario, sea levels would as a result very likely rise between 0.5 and 1.9 metres by 2100.
How Animal Poop Helps Ecosystems Adapt to Climate Change
Climate change is melting away glaciers around the world, but in the Andes Mountains, a wild relative of the llama is helping local ecosystems adapt to these changes by dropping big piles of dung.