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Current Antarctic conservation efforts insufficient to avoid biodiversity
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Existing conservation efforts are insufficient to protect Antarctic ecosystems, and population declines are likely for 65 per cent of the continent's plants and wildlife by the year 2100, according to a study
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Study identifies new cause for melting Antarctic ice shelves
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Researchers have discovered a process that can contribute to the melting of ice shelves in the Antarctic. An international team of scientists found that adjacent ice shelves play a role in causing instability in others downstream.
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Itchy eyes and a runny nose? Research suggests it could be climate change
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Researchers with the Rutgers Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute have simulated how climate change will affect the distribution of two leading allergens - oak and ragweed pollens - across the contiguous United States. The results, published in the journal Frontiers in Al
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Southern Hemisphere is stormier than the North; Here's why
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
For centuries, sailors who had been all over the world knew where the most fearsome storms of all lay in wait: the Southern Hemisphere. "The waves ran mountain-high and threatened to overwhelm [the ship] at every roll," wrote one passenger on an 1849 voyage rounding the tip of South America.
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Study finds how hormone fluctuations increase survival probabilities
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Blood levels of stress hormones in free-living great tits vary greatly. As the great tits encountered various ambient temperatures, the researchers noted significant variations in how strongly the levels of the glucocorticoid hormone changed in various individuals.
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Clouds may be the reason why climate change is reducing daily temperature
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Climate change is shrinking the difference between the daily high temperature and the daily low in many parts of the world.
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What causes ecosystems to become unstable?
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Massachusetts [US], October 7 (ANI): It might be difficult to sort through all the variables that affect how complex ecological groups behave. The number of species present in the community and how strongly they interact with one another have been found to be the only two factors that can ac
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Research: Climate change may impact marine environments badly
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Gothenburg [Sweden], September 20 (ANI): Planning is necessary to promote the sustainable development of marine habitats, just as there has long been spatial planning for operations on land. Researchers from the University of Gothenburg and other institutions are now demonstrating that marin
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Air Canada purchases 30 electric-hybrid planes to combat climate change ef
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Ottawa [Canada], September 18 (ANI): Air Canada announced a purchase agreement for 30 ES-30 electric-hybrid aircraft to lower aircraft emissions and combat climate change's effects.
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Extreme heat and drought events necessitate more thorough risk assessment:
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Zurich [Switzerland], August 11 (ANI): The economy, public health, and food production are just a few of the effects of simultaneous extreme heat and drought events. Additionally, as a result of the intricate socioeconomic connections, such extreme events may have a domino effect, according
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Study reveals how Earth's energy imbalance is essential to prevent global
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 4 (ANI): According to a recent study, a group of researchers found that the imbalance of energy on Earth is the most important indicator in order to determine the size and effects of climate change.
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New study reveals climate change in oceanwater might impact mangrove dispe
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 3 (ANI): According to the results of Dr. Tom Van der Stocken from VUB Biology Department study suggest that in the 21st century, mangrove forests have experienced changes in ocean surface temperature, salinity, and density around the world. The study also revealed th
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