Tag Archives: Climate change

[ad_1] IMAGE: The northern cardinal has relatively low frequency chant and delayed playback in response to noise pollution. View More Credit: David Keeling Are you looking for a bird’s-eye view of human impact? A new study published in the journal Nature provides the most comprehensive picture of how human noise …

[ad_1] The Great Barrier Reef has lost 50% of its coral populations over the past three decades, with climate change a key driver of the reef disturbance, a new study has found. Researchers from the ARC Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies in Queensland assessed coral communities and the …

[ad_1] The ancient basin, now under a mile of ice, is shaped like a cleaver. Image: Paxman et al., EPSL, 2020 Using radar and other ice-penetrating tools, scientists have detected a “fossil lake bed” preserved under the Greenland ice sheet, in what is the first discovery of its kind. Now …

[ad_1] The artist’s interpretation of how microbial genome sequences from the GEM catalog can help fill knowledge gaps about the microbes that play key roles in Earth’s microbiomes. (Credit: Zosia Rostomian / Berkeley Lab) Despite advances in sequencing technologies and computational methods over the past decade, researchers have discovered genomes …

[ad_1] On Father’s Day in June 2018, Samantha Good was working on an excavation in the Drimolen Cave in the Cradle of Humanity in South Africa. He discovered what appeared to be a canine tooth protruding from the melted brown sediment. Good kept digging until he found two more teeth …

[ad_1] Paleoanthropologists have discovered a two-million-year-old adult hominid skull – the first known and best-preserved specimen of Paranthropus robustus ever found. Researchers from the Department of Archeology at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, led the excavation, reconstruction and analysis of the rare male fossil from the main Drimolen quarry …

[ad_1] IMAGE: The discovery of an extraordinarily well-preserved fossil of the extinct human species Paranthropus robustus suggests rapid evolution during a turbulent period of local climate change, resulting in anatomical changes that … More Credit: Image courtesy of Jesse Martin and David Strait Males of the extinct human species Paranthropus …

[ad_1] Putin stressed that any action must be balanced with the need to ensure strong economic development. Moscow: President Vladimir Putin signed a decree ordering the Russian government to work to meet the 2015 Paris Agreement to combat climate change, but stressed that any action must be balanced with the …

[ad_1] As the dust settles over Labor’s electoral victory in Queensland, banana growers and ranchers in the state’s north are preparing for greater regulation of water quality. Key points: HSBC became the first corporate investor in coral reef credits, paying a farmer to improve practices to protect the Great Barrier …

[ad_1] IMAGE: Bird’s eye photo of Hateruma Island (left) and the Island Monitoring Station (right). View More Credit: NIES Monitoring anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions using atmospheric observations is a major challenge for decision making, like the Paris Agreement. Huge atmospheric observation networks consisting of a variety of platforms including satellites …