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The speed at which a tiny ant evolves to cope to its warming city environment suggests that some species may evolve quickly enough to survive, or even thrive, in the warmer temperatures found within cities, according to a new study by researchers at Case Western Reserve University.
Projected increases in the frequency, intensity and duration of heatwaves in the desert of the southwestern United States are putting songbirds at greater risk for death by dehydration and mass die-offs, according to a new study.
Tropical Cyclone Enawo was battering the northeastern region of Madagascar when NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed overhead on March 7. Enawo strengthened to the equivalent of a Category 4 or major hurricane and made landfall.
Un nuevo estudio europeo ha encontrado que la pérdida de carbono del suelo es más sensible al cambio climático en comparación con el carbono absorbido por las plantas. En las regiones más secas, la pérdida de carbono en el suelo disminuyó, pero en las regiones más húmedas la pérdida de carbono en el suelo aumentó. Esto podría dar como resultado una retroalimentación positiva a la atmósfera que conduce a un aumento adicional de los niveles atmosféricos de CO2.
A new European study has found that soil carbon loss is more sensitive to climate change compared to carbon taken up by plants. In drier regions, soil carbon loss decreased but in wetter regions soil carbon loss increased. This could result in a positive feedback to the atmosphere leading to an additional increase of atmospheric CO2 levels.
A good rain can have a cleansing effect on the land. But an MIT study published today in Nature Communications reports that, under just the right conditions, rain can also be a means of spreading bacteria.
