A new report by the Food System Economics Commission highlights that transforming global food systems could yield socio-economic benefits of 5 to 10 trillion USD…
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Research on the Quaternary period reveals rapid climate changes, known as Dansgaard-Oeschger events, in the last and penultimate glacial periods through Greenland ice cores and…
Scientists Erle Ellis has synthesized interdisciplinary research to illustrate how human cultural practices have historically enabled the transformation of ecosystems, advancing from the use of…
Active dripstone formation in a side area of the “Kleine Teufelshöhle.” Credit: KIT (taken as part of the HEiKA Project Check Extrema) Researchers from Heidelberg…
Since the 1980s, seismic stations have been detecting an increase in ocean wave intensity, correlating with climate change. A Colorado State University study, analyzing over…
Researchers have discovered a previously unknown climate mechanism during the Cretaceous period, linking continental movement with disruptions in ocean currents that affected temperature gradients. This…
The Sahara Desert, typically seen as an inhospitable environment, once harbored the ancient Garamantian Empire, which thrived by tapping into hidden groundwater. However, their unsustainable…
The quintessential California fog of Northern California has “only” defined its coastline for about 4,000 years, a UC Davis study found. This shot was taken…
Copulation attempt of two Drosophila males in ozone-enriched air. Credit: Benjamin Fabian, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology High levels of ozone destroy the chemical…
A research camp at the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide. Credit: Bradley Markle University of Colorado at Boulder scientists and an international team of…
The Camp Fire wildfire in 2018 burned a total of 239 square miles, destroyed 18,804 structures, and killed 85 people. Researchers say it also produced…
Globorataloides hexagonus shell recovered from a deep-sea sediment core in the tropical Pacific ocean. Credit: Catherine Davis Scientists have mapped out oceanic “dead zones” from…
Calving front of the Upsala Glacier in Argentina. This glacier has been thinning and retreating at a rapid rate during the last decades — from…
Left: Large coccoliths – disks made of calcium carbonate that armor single-celled algae called coccolithophores – from the Middle Miocene about 16 million to 11.6…