Climate Change

Sea level rise this century may disproportionately affect certain Asian megacities, including Chennai and Kolkata, as well as western tropical Pacific islands and the western Indian Ocean, according to new research. The study, led by scientists at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and University of La Rochelle…

Young animals use energy to grow, and later in life, to reproduce. Credit: Shutterstock All animals need energy to live. They use it to breathe, circulate blood, digest food and move. Young animals use energy to grow, and later in life, to reproduce. Increased body temperature increases the rate at…

Canada's spy service warns that climate change poses a profound, ongoing threat to national security and prosperity, including the possible loss of parts of British Columbia and the Atlantic provinces to rising sea levels. A newly released analysis by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) also foresees an increase in…

This story was originally published by the Food and Environment Reporting Network. In 2002, Deirdre Birmingham and her husband, John Biondi, bought a 166-acre farm in southwestern Wisconsin’s Driftless region. On a portion of that land — once used to raise cattle and grow feed crops like corn, soybeans, and alfalfa — they…

French bank BNP Paribas is being sued by a group of environmental and human rights advocacy groups that allege it provides financial services to oil and gas companies as well as meat producers that clear the Amazon to make space for cattle pastures.The basis of both lawsuits is a 2017…

A review of 49 studies reveals that a variety of weather-related phenomena that are likely to become increasingly common due to climate change may increase human-wildlife conflict.The most commonly reported conflict outcomes were injury or death in people (43% of studies) and wildlife (45% of studies), and loss of crops…

Vegetation green leaf phenology directly impacts terrestrial ecosystems’ gross primary productivity (GPP). Satellite observations of land surface phenology (LSP) are essential to monitoring the critical timing of vegetation green leaf development. However, differences between satellite-derived LSP proxies and in-situ measurements of GPP make it challenging to quantify the impact of…

Home News Tech Dust launched from the surface of the moon could help cool Earth, a new study suggests. (Image credit: NASA) Astronomers are exploring solutions to mitigate climate change, one of humanity's biggest challenges, by using some tiny players — dust particles. In recent research, they propose mining, scooping…

Climate change played a major role in the weather conditions that contributed to the wildfire that raged through Cape Town’s Table Mountain area in April 2021, according to a new study. The researchers found that climate models suggest that extreme fire weather associated with the Cape Town wildfire “has become…

In February, Mongabay covered how conservationists in Ukraine are working through the war, how remote communities in the Amazon are using solar energy, and the benefits of introducing agroecology in India’s coconut plantations.Indigenous political representatives and lawmakers in Brazil discussed with Mongabay the issues they are about to start tackling…