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Landmark new research shows how global warming is messing with our...
Day-to-day rainfall variability increased by 1.2% per decade, globally.
World registers 'Hottest day' ever recorded on July 3
5 July 2023 7:00 AMThe average global temperature reached 17.01 degrees Celsius (62.62 Fahrenheit), surpassing the August 2016 record of 16.92C (62.46F) as heatwaves...
Viral infections could change how microbes react to warming: Study
11 May 2023 1:56 AMThese changes could ultimately affect the responses of whole ecosystems to warming.
Land ecosystems becoming less efficient at absorbing CO2: Study
21 Dec 2020 2:39 AMResearchers have identified an unsettling trend - as levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere increase, 86 per cent of land ecosystems...
Like bees, wasps 'valuable' for ecosystems, human health
29 April 2021 4:47 AMWasps deserve to be just as highly valued as other insects, like bees, due to their roles as predators, pollinators, and more, according to a new...
Petition to save a marine delicacy traded to death
28 May 2022 11:31 PMBetween 2015 and 2020, the Sri Lankan Navy and the Indian Coast Guard had made 502 arrests and seized nearly 65 metric tons of sea cucumbers worth...
Did nature heal during pandemic ‘anthropause’?
19 July 2022 6:38 PMThat might seem like a tidy parable about how nature recovers when people disappear from the landscape — if not for the fact that ecosystems are...
Pest control: Should we even ask if there is an ethical way to kill...
28 Feb 2023 1:30 PMStandard wooden snap traps often catch limbs or tails, forcing rats to gnaw them off in desperation. Live-catch traps are difficult to implement, and...