Environmental Awareness News

December 5, 2023

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Protect Delicate Polar Ecosystems by Mapping Biodiversity

Nov. 20, 2023 — Concerted action is required to mitigate the impact of warming on polar ecosystems and sustainably manage these unique habitats. ...

Climate Change Effects Hit Marine Ecosystems in Multiple Waves, According to Marine Ecologists

Nov. 16, 2023 — A new approach to examining the effects of climate change on marine ecosystems may provide a more accurate understanding of climate change responses -- and predictions for future consequences -- ...

How Climate Change Could Be Affecting Your Brain

Nov. 13, 2023 — A new element of the catastrophic impacts of climate change is emerging -- how global warming is impacting the human ...

'Biodiversity Time Machine' Provides Insights Into a Century of Loss

Nov. 7, 2023 — AI analysis shows pollution levels, extreme weather events and increasing temperatures devastates biodiversity in freshwater ...

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Ocean Warming Is Accelerating, and Hotspots Reveal Which Areas Are Absorbing the Most Heat

Nov. 1, 2023 — A new study reveals increasing warming rates in the world's oceans in recent decades and the locations with the greatest heat ...

Cultural Adaptation to Climate Change

Oct. 30, 2023 — Examining how human culture evolves in response to a changing environment may help with creating more effective climate change adaptation efforts. Using farming data from across the U.S., a team of ...

A Sustainable Future Is Based on a Learning Society

Oct. 25, 2023 — A holistic transformation is needed for the planet to accommodate people's pursuit of well-being. A new study explores a Theory of Planetary Social Pedagogy as a driver of a transformative process ...

Urgent Action Needed to Address Climate Change Threats to Coastal Areas

Oct. 19, 2023 — Global coastal adaptations are 'incremental in scale', short-sighted and inadequate to address the root causes of vulnerability to climate change, according to an international team of ...

Coffee and Cocoa Plants at Risk from Pollinator Loss

Oct. 12, 2023 — Tropical crops such as coffee, cocoa, watermelon and mango may be at risk due to the loss of insect pollinators, finds a new ...

Large Swings in Past Ocean Oxygen Revealed

Oct. 12, 2023 — As the climate warms, there is major concern that Earth's ocean will lose oxygen. A study has revealed that locked in ancient deep-sea sediments is evidence for oxygen loss in the world's ocean ...

The Changing Climate Creates More Noise in the Oceans

Oct. 10, 2023 — Due to the changing climate, the underwater world is getting ever ...

Bird Species Changing Faster Than Expected in Protected Areas

Oct. 4, 2023 — A recent study has found that bird communities inside and outside protected areas are beginning to resemble each other as a result of climate change. In both areas, southern species increase in ...

How Weather Patterns Will Change in the Future

Sep. 25, 2023 — In a warming Pacific Northwest, summers are getting hotter and winters less cold, but the atmospheric patterns that influence the weather aren't necessarily expected to become stronger or more ...

Alarming Results from World First Study of Two Decades of Global Smoke Pollution

Sep. 20, 2023 — The world's first study of the increase in pollution from landscape fires across the globe over the past two decades reveals that over 2 billion ...

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Botany Must Feature More Prominently on the School Curriculum to Promote Awareness of Climate Change, Study Warns

Dec. 4, 2023 — Children must be taught more about the importance of plants if education about climate change and sustainability is to be effective, experts have ...

Effective Visual Communication of Climate Change

Sep. 20, 2023 — The consequences of a warming climate frequently dominated the news this summer, from devastating wildfires and floods to deadly heat waves across the globe. Reducing harm from climate change is a ...

Studies Highlight New Approaches to Addressing Climate Change

Sep. 11, 2023 — Failing to achieve climate mitigation goals puts increasing pressure on climate adaptation strategies. In two new studies, researchers address novel approaches to these ...

Groundwater Depletion Rates in India Could Triple in Coming Decades as Climate Warms, Study Shows

Sep. 1, 2023 — A new study finds that farmers in India have adapted to warming temperatures by intensifying the withdrawal of groundwater used for irrigation. If the trend continues, the rate of groundwater loss ...

A Global Observatory to Monitor Earth's Biodiversity

Aug. 31, 2023 — At a time of unparalleled rates of biodiversity loss, a new interconnected system to monitor biodiversity around the world is needed to guide action quickly enough to target conservation efforts to ...

Emphasizing the Need for Energy Independence Could Change the Views of Climate Deniers, Study Says

Aug. 30, 2023 — Emphasising the need for energy independence and environmental stewardship could help to change people’s minds about the climate crisis, a new study ...

Land-Sea Relationship Is Major Driver of Coral Reef Health Outcomes

Aug. 9, 2023 — New research indicates that mitigating both local land and sea-based human impacts, especially in terms of pollutants and over-fishing, provides coral reef ecosystems with the best opportunity to ...

Classroom Environmental Education Doesn't Change Attitudes

Aug. 9, 2023 — Researchers evaluated the effectiveness of conservation educational activities in the Cape Verde Island of ...

Invasion of the Arctic Ocean by Atlantic Plankton Species Reveals a Seasonally Ice-Free Ocean During the Last Interglacial

Aug. 4, 2023 — A subpolar species associated with Atlantic water expanded far into the Arctic Ocean during the Last Interglacial, analysis of microfossil content of sediment cores reveals. This implies that summers ...

Nature-Based Solutions Can Help Tackle Climate Change and Food Security, but Communities Outside Europe Are Missing out

Aug. 1, 2023 — Nature-based solutions (NBS) can help grand challenges, such as climate change and food security, but, as things stand, communities outside of Europe do not stand to benefit from these innovations. ...

Climate Change Threatens 771 Endangered Plant and Lichen Species

July 26, 2023 — All plants and lichens listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act are sensitive to climate change but there are few plans in place to address this threat directly, according to new ...

Arctic Terns May Navigate Climate Dangers

July 26, 2023 — Arctic terns -- which fly on the longest migrations of any animal on Earth -- may be able to navigate the dangers posed by climate change, new research ...

Long-Term Changes in Waves and Storm Surges Have Not Impacted Global Coastlines

July 21, 2023 — Changes in ocean wave and storm conditions have not caused long-term impacts on sandy coastlines in the past 30 years, a new study has ...

Introducing the Climate Solutions Explorer

July 20, 2023 — Scientists recently launched the Climate Solutions Explorer -- a comprehensive resource that visualizes and presents vital data about climate mitigation, climate impacts, vulnerabilities, and risks ...

Salinity Changes Threatening Marine Ecosystems

July 12, 2023 — A groundbreaking study reveals the critical yet severely understudied factor of salinity changes in ocean and coastlines caused by climate ...

Using AI to Save Species from Extinction Cascades

July 11, 2023 — Algorithms can predict what movies or songs you might like, but they can also predict which species a predator would most likely eat. Researchers have been using machine learning to identify species ...

Global Cooling Caused Diversity of Species in Orchids, Confirms Study

July 10, 2023 — Research shows global cooling of the climate 10 million years ago led to an explosion of diversity in terrestrial ...

Doom-and-Gloom Climate News May Scare but Also Encourage Audiences

July 7, 2023 — Researchers investigated how seeing frightening news about climate change day after day may shape the way people feel about the phenomenon and how willing they are to take action to address ...

Climate Change Will Increase Impacts of Volcanic Eruptions

June 28, 2023 — Volcanic disasters have been studied since Pompeii was buried in 79 A.D., leading the public to believe that scientists already know why, where, when and how long volcanoes will erupt. But a ...

New Research Finds That More Than 90% of Global Aquaculture Faces Substantial Risk from Environmental Change

June 26, 2023 — Many of the world's largest aquatic food producers are highly vulnerable to human-induced environmental change, with some of the highest-risk countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa ...

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