Icebergs in the Illulissat Icefjord, Greenland. Credit: Megan Thompson-Munson/CIRES Scientists have known from ice core research that it’s easier to melt an ice sheet than to freeze it up again. Now, they know at least part of the reason why, and it has to do with ice’s “sponginess,” according to a new study published July
Historical trends of inequality and annual mean temperature in South Africa (sources: World Income Inequality Database (WIID), NIDS, and ERA5). Credit: Environmental Research Letters (2023). DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ad0448 Scientific evidence shows that climate change is already negatively affecting inequality and poverty, but the extent to which this happens at the micro-level remains relatively unexplored. Investigating the
Victims of flooding from monsoon rains walk with their cattle after their flooded home in Sehwan, Sindh province, Pakistan, Sept. 9, 2022. A warming world is transforming some major snowfalls into heavy rain over mountains instead, somehow worsening both dangerous flooding like the type that devastated Pakistan last year as well as long-term water shortages
There is harsh competition for arable land between the geese and farmers. With a cacophony of honks sounding like a hailstorm, tens of thousands of hungry geese blanket a lush green field in Finland with their black flocks. “There’s probably around 20 to 30 hectares behind me, it is easily eaten in a day,” cattle
The mixotrophic protist Paramecium bursaria can eat bacteria or use photosynthesis to get energy and carbon. Photosynthesis occurs inside the endosymbiotic Chlorella algae (green spheres) that live inside P bursaria cells. Credit: Daniel Wieczynski New research finds that a warming climate could flip globally abundant microbial communities from carbon sinks to carbon emitters, potentially triggering