Source: EurekAlert! Science News Releases

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Discovery could end global amphibian pandemic

  2024-04-04 (or before) in EurekAlert! Science News Releases

<p>A fungus devastating frogs and toads on nearly every continent may have an Achilles heel. Scientists have discovered a virus that infects the fungus, and that could be engineered to save the amphibians.</p>

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Trees struggle to ‘breathe’ as climate warms, researchers find

  2024-02-02 (or before) in EurekAlert! Science News Releases

Trees are struggling to sequester heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO2) in warmer, drier climates, meaning that they may no longer serve as a solution for offsetting humanity's carbon footprint as the planet continues to warm, according to a new study led by Penn State researchers.

  Tagged under: Trees | Carbon Offsetting

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Climate-driven extreme heat may make parts of Earth too hot for humans

  2023-10-10 (or before) in EurekAlert! Science News Releases

  Tagged under: Collapse | Extreme Heat | Climate Change Impacts

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Study shows making cities greener doesn’t just capture carbon – it reduces it

  2023-09-02 (or before) in EurekAlert! Science News Releases

Dozens of European cities could reach net zero carbon emissions over the next 10 years by incorporating nature into their infrastructure, according to a new study.

  Tagged under: Net Zero | Carbon Capture and Storage

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The ground is deforming, and buildings aren’t ready

  2023-07-12 (or before) in EurekAlert! Science News Releases

A new Northwestern University study has, for the first time, linked underground climate change to the shifting ground beneath urban areas. The phenomenon is affecting all major urban areas around the globe, causing civil structures and infrastructures to crack.

  Tagged under: Climate Change

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Bees get week early wakeup call from warming climate

  2023-07-11 (or before) in EurekAlert! Science News Releases

Rising temperatures are causing British bees to wake up from hibernation almost a week earlier

  Tagged under: Bees

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First observational evidence of beaufort gyre stabilization, which could be precursor to huge freshwater release

  2023-05-09 (or before) in EurekAlert! Science News Releases

A new study provides the first observational evidence of the stabilization of the anti-cyclonic Beaufort Gyre, which is the dominant circulation of the Canada Basin and the largest freshwater reservoir in the Arctic Ocean

  Tagged under: Oceans | Arctic

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Crab populations are crashing. Could losing their sense of smell be one of the important reasons why?

  2023-05-09 (or before) in EurekAlert! Science News Releases

A new U of T Scarborough study finds that climate change is causing a commercially significant marine crab to lose its sense of smell, which could partially explain why their populations are thinning.

  Tagged under: Climate Change | Sealife

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It would take 23 million years for evolution to replace Madagascar’s endangered mammals

  2023-01-11 (or before) in EurekAlert! Science News Releases

90% of the plants and animals on Madagascar are found nowhere else on Earth, but this treasure trove of evolution is under serious threat due to habitat loss, over-hunting, and climate change. In this study, researchers examined how long it took Madagascar’s unique modern mammal species to emerge and estimated how long it would take for a similarly complex set of new mammal species to evolve in their place if the endangered ones went extinct: 23 million years, far longer than scientists have found for any other island.

  Tagged under: Climate Change | Madagascar

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IPBES/IPCC: Tackling the biodiversity and climate crises together, and their combined social impacts

  2022-05-27 (or before) in EurekAlert! Science News Releases

The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) launch a peer-reviewed report based on a 4-day virtual workshop on addressing the biodiversity and climate crises together involving 50 jointly-selected international experts.

  Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts

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Infertility poses major threat to biodiversity during climate change, study warns

  2021-08-29 (or before) in EurekAlert! Science News Releases

A new study by University of Liverpool ecologists warns that heat-induced male infertility will see some species succumb to the effects of climate change earlier than thought. Currently, scientists are trying to predict where species will be lost due to climate change so they can plan effective conservation strategies. However, research on temperature tolerance has generally focused on the temperatures that are lethal to organisms, rather than those at which organisms can no longer breed.

  Tagged under: Predictions | Climate Change

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