Global warming is leading to longer growing seasons worldwide, with many plants growing earlier in spring and continuing longer in autumn thanks to warmer temperatures—so the general opinion.
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World’s Food Production Footprint on Climate and Environment
By the time the food we eat gets to our table, it has travelled a long way – from production, processing and distribution to all of us consumers.
NASA Sensors to Help Detect Methane Emitted by Landfills
A nonprofit group, Carbon Mapper, will use data from NASA’s EMIT mission, plus current airborne and future satellite instruments, to survey waste sites for methane emissions.
Risk of Population Disruption as a Result of Decarbonisation
Research led by University of Queensland (UQ) and including the University of Göttingen analysed the effects of decarbonisation strategies by linking global resource inventories with demographic systems to generate a matrix showing the risks and benefits.
Latest International Water Satellite Packs an Engineering Punch
Meet the scientific heart of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission, which will see Earth’s water in higher definition than ever before.
How a Policy to Address a Groundwater Shortage Inadvertently Increase Air Pollution in Northern India
New research from Harvard University finds that a government policy that delayed rice planting in northwest India may have had an unintended consequence for air quality in the region.