Courtesy of the University of Melbourne The first continental-scale reconstruction of temperatures over the past 2000 years has found 20th Century warming was a global event that has produced the hottest global average temperature in 1400 years. The study by 78 scientists from 24 countries was published in Nature Geoscience and combined Northern and Southern [...]

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Courtesy of Ohio State University An Ohio State University statistician says that the natural human difficulty with grasping probabilities is preventing Americans from dealing with climate change. The situation is not hopeless. Instead of taking an extreme all-or-nothing view about climate change, we can think of it as a spectrum of possible problems, and look [...]

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Courtesy of UBC University of British Columbia researchers have found that when the animals at the top of the food chain are removed, freshwater ecosystems emit a lot more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. “Predators are disappearing from our ecosystems at alarming rates because of hunting and fishing pressure and because of human induced changes [...]

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Courtesy of  The University of Alberta A University of Alberta polar bear researcher and 11 international co-authors are urging governments to start planning for rapid Arctic ecosystem change to deal with a climate change catastrophe for the animals. U of A professor Andrew Derocher co-wrote a policy perspective urging governments with polar bear populations to [...]

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Courtesy of UBC – By Salina Marshall Katie O’Callaghan never imagined that her graduate studies in community and regional planning would involve police car chases. “It was exciting,” she says of riding in a squad car alongside officers. But the University of British Columbia student wasn’t in it for the action. Rather, she was interested [...]

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Courtesy of ASU News Scientists at ASU are celebrating their recent success on the path to understanding what makes the fiber that spiders spin – weight for weight – at least five times as strong as piano wire. They have found a way to obtain a wide variety of elastic properties of the silk of [...]

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Courtesy of The University of Sheffield News Extremes of temperature and rainfall are affecting the survival of elephants working in timber camps in Myanmar and can double the risk of death in calves aged up to five, new research from the University of Sheffield has found. With climate change models predicting higher temperatures and months [...]

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Courtesy of Arizona State University ASU researchers have developed a new software system capable of estimating greenhouse gas emissions across entire urban landscapes, all the way down to roads and individual buildings. Until now, scientists quantified carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions at a much broader level. In a new BreakThrough Science video posted on the American [...]

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Courtesy Emory University, Woodruff Health Sciences Center Chimpanzees have a sense of fairness that was previously seen as uniquely human, finds a study by Emory’s Yerkes National Primate Research Center and Georgia State University. The researchers played the Ultimate Game with the chimpanzees to determine how sensitive the animals are to the reward distribution between two [...]

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Courtesy of Penn State University Live Turns out, watching ants is actually pretty entertaining, according to Spencer Malloy. Good thing for him, because it was one of the most important parts of his job last summer. The Penn State senior with a double major in agroecology and philosophy recently completed an internship at the University [...]

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