Climate Change

Around the world, huge swathes of fertile land are turning into arid wastelands at alarming rates, threatening ecosystems, agriculture, and humanity. This process is known as desertification, and it is closely linked to the effects of climate change.  Desertification is accelerating due to rising temperatures, erratic weather patterns, and human activities. The consequences of desertification are devastating, …

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Computer models reveal how human-driven climate change will dramatically overhaul critical nutrient cycles in the ocean. In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, University of California, Irvine researchers report evidence that marine nutrient cycles—essential for sustaining ocean ecosystems—are changing in unexpected ways as the planet continues to warm. “Model studies have suggested that when …

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Ocean warming has more than quadrupled in recent decades and is likely to accelerate even faster if humanity fails to address climate change, scientists find. Earth’s oceans are getting warmer at an accelerating rate, researchers find — indicating that climate change is speeding up too. The scientists found that ocean warming has more than quadrupled …

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Livestock was the main contributor to nitrogen emissions, along with synthetic fertilisers, land-use change and manure emissions Humans currently add around 150 teragrammes (Tg) of reactive nitrogen to the Earth’s land surface each year through agriculture and industry. This amount is more than double the pre-industrial rate, according to a new report. Climate change could contribute …

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Climate change — particularly whiplash between two wet winters followed by a bone-dry, unusually hot spring, summer and fall — set the stage for Los Angeles’ deadly and devastating fires, scientists say. Why it matters: Whatever the source, it’s clear a changing climate made the fires more ferocious, long-lasting and destructive, as has been the trend across the West …

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