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2 days ago · A major barrier to climate change mitigation is the political polarization of climate change beliefs. In a global experiment conducted in 60 countries (N = 51,224), we assess the differential ...
5 days ago · Climate change (CC) is an existential threat globally, and the Great Lakes Region (GLR) is not immune to the impacts of these extreme events. Erratic weather and extreme events such as rainfall and droughts have serious impacts on agriculture, a major income pillar for African smallholder farmers, and an essential source of food.
2 days ago · Several large-scale, human-driven changes to the planet — including climate change, the loss of biodiversity and the spread of invasive species — are making infectious diseases more dangerous ...
4 days ago · Though most of those claims have since been debunked, climate journalist Zoë Schlanger says a new wave of research suggests that plants are indeed "intelligent" in complex ways that challenge our understanding of agency and consciousness. "Agency is this effect of having ... an active stake in the outcome of your life," Schlanger says.
22 hours ago · The project's lead wants to know how the garden's trees are responding to a changing environment. ... A botanic garden has been tracking the effects of climate change on nature as part of an ...
1 day ago · As our society's reliance on dirty energy sources like gas and oil continues to overheat our planet, the resulting changes to the climate affect ecosystems across the globe. In many cases, this has led to species becoming threatened and dying out. In others, species appear to be adapting to warmer ...
2 days ago · global warming, the phenomenon of increasing average air temperatures near the surface of Earth over the past one to two centuries. Climate scientists have since the mid-20th century gathered detailed observations of various weather phenomena (such as temperatures, precipitation, and storms) and of related influences on climate (such as ocean currents and the atmosphere’s chemical composition).
