Climate

Heat kills more when it is humid.

In the Red Centre of the Aussie desert, this Sturt’s desert pea is an appropriate emblem for survival there. People, however, are suffering, as heat-related deaths increase and humidity could...

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UK or Republican “deniers” are worst?

No snows, early snows (and floods) on this particular city and numerous storms and freak events are finally being explained as meteorologists struggle to interpret global warming effects. With scientific...

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Methane danger in undersea permafrost .

Like the two thirds of an iceberg that remains below water, the massive amounts of methane stored under the Arctic can only be estimated with models. Here, after sinkholes appearing...

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Mama Mia Mantis

Whether you like mantids or not, their intelligence and usefulness are not in dispute, as long as native species are not affected adversely by their presence in a new continent....

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Use biodiversity to combat climate change!

Many of us are aware of the treasure that is the Red Sea, away from the tourist spots. The coral and fish biodiversity, like that elsewhere, is threatened as oceans...

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If you can't stand the heat..

The days when the flap of butterflies’ wings were theorised to cause potential storms across the earth are not over. But instead of chaos theory, we now have real storms...

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Flood the Pacific islands or don't sell your coal!

On the Pacific island of Palau, giant clams may continue to be a valuable food source, but they will be unaffected by more powerful cyclones and the flooding that is...

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Sea ice helps carbon absorption

What a vista the buckled sea ice gives us in the winter. Come the thaw, we now have precious little remaining and the result of that loss will be?; Sea-ice...

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Climate change affects islands, but one snail hangs on.

This small gastropod snail represents the equally small islands now threatened with sea-level rise and climate change. While the continents have areas to which we can remove, if drought or...

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