Environmental Awareness News
May 21, 2024
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May 20, 2024 Replacing diesel school buses with electric school buses may yield up to $247,600 in climate and health benefits per individual bus, according to a new study. The researchers found that these ...
May 17, 2024 A team explored the influence the spatial extent of research -- the geographical coverage of data collected -- has on evaluating the sensitivity of different fish species to climate ...
May 20, 2024 Scientists have found that the record-low levels of sea ice around Antarctica in 2023 were extremely unlikely to happen without the influence of climate change. This low was a one-in-a-2000-year event without climate change and four times more ...
May 15, 2024 A new article has found that climate change is the most prominent threat to pollinators -- such as bumblebees, wasps, and butterflies -- who are essential for biodiversity conservation, crop yields and food security. The research suggests that many ...
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May 14, 2024 The latest 'Florida Climate Resilience Survey' found that 90% of Floridians believe that climate change is happening. Belief in human-caused climate change has surged among Florida Independents while ...
May 9, 2024 The division between liberals and conservatives on both climate-change beliefs and related policy support is long-standing. However, the results of a ...
May 3, 2024 Anthropologists suggest in a new study that establishing networks of 'sister cities' dedicated to addressing the impact of natural disasters can mitigate the devastation wrought by climate ...
Apr. 24, 2024 Researchers found that forests with higher trait diversity not only adapt better to climate change but may also thrive. The study unveiled how tree functional trait diversity plays a pivotal role in ...
Apr. 24, 2024 As wildfires in Siberia become more common, global climate modeling estimates significant impacts on climate, air quality, health, and economies in East Asia and across the northern ...
Apr. 17, 2024 During the unusually dry year of 2018, Sweden was hit by numerous forest fires. A research team has investigated how climate change affects recently burnt boreal forests and their ability to absorb ...
Apr. 17, 2024 Pioneering study reveals that limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius could reduce the global economic costs of climate change by two thirds. If warming continues to 3 degrees Celsius, global ...
Apr. 9, 2024 Fish and invertebrate animals are far more affected by warmer and more acidic seawater than was previously known. The big gain of the new method is that more details become known about effects of ...
Apr. 8, 2024 Researchers have developed a new method to predict the financial impacts climate change will have on agriculture, which can help support food security and financial stability for countries ...
Apr. 8, 2024 Modelling climate change over a 500 year period shows that much of the boreal forest, the Earth's northernmost forests and most significant provider ...
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Apr. 4, 2024 New science has taken a deep dive into plastic waste, providing the first estimate of how much ends up on the sea ...
Apr. 3, 2024 A new study finds that universities scoring strongly on measures of sustainability are associated with innovation and economic growth in their surrounding communities. However, the study did not find ...
Apr. 2, 2024 Companies that proactively manage climate risks boost their valuations, while those with a passive stance are discounted in the equity market, according to new ...
Apr. 2, 2024 How do you spread a message about climate change? According to an international study involving 59,000 participants, some tactics may actually reduce ...
Mar. 29, 2024 Ocean-atmosphere coupling, the exchange in energy between the ocean and atmosphere, influences teleconnection patterns, the climate effects across vast geographical areas. However, its impact outside ...
Mar. 27, 2024 Legislators love bundling things together. It lets them accomplish more with less hassle and attempt to make legislation more appealing to a broader group. But a new study suggests that this can ...
Mar. 27, 2024 Climate change may dramatically affect the animal species observed in North American cities, according to a new ...
Mar. 25, 2024 Coastal seas form a complex transition zone between the two largest CO2 sinks in the global carbon cycle: land and ocean. Ocean researchers have now succeeded for the first time in investigating the ...
Mar. 8, 2024 A new study of Joshua trees, kit foxes and solar energy developments highlights the need to consider climate-induced range shifts for species as we expand clean ...
New Study Reveals Insight Into Which Animals Are Most Vulnerable to Extinction Due to Climate Change
Mar. 7, 2024 In a new study, researchers have used the fossil record to better understand what factors make animals more vulnerable to extinction from climate change. The results could help to identify species ...
Mar. 5, 2024 Green walls can strip pollution from the air -- and some plants do it better than others, according to new research. Researchers planted 10 species on a custom-built 1.4m green ...
Mar. 5, 2024 Young people have major concerns about climate change, which is having a significant impact on their lives and could have broader consequences decades into the ...
Feb. 29, 2024 Researchers have quantified how climate change risks to human and natural systems increase at a national scale as the level of global warming increases. A collection of eight studies -- all focusing ...
Feb. 21, 2024 There exists a narrative about climate change that says there are winners and losers -- with Russia being one of the countries that stand to benefit from its effects. In a new study, researchers ...
Feb. 7, 2024 An international team of scientists has created a tool that can aid in increasing climate awareness and climate action globally by highlighting messaging themes shown to be effective through ...
Jan. 31, 2024 New research has estimated that 1454 avoidable deaths (one person every five days) occurred in Australian capital cities in the past 20 years because of fine particle air pollution from extreme ...
Jan. 29, 2024 An important question for policymakers worldwide is how to make climate and environmental policies acceptable among the populations. A new study sheds light on the preferences in five East African ...
Jan. 26, 2024 People who were more skeptical of human-caused climate change or the Black Lives Matter movement who took part in conversation with a popular AI chatbot were disappointed with the experience but left ...
Jan. 21, 2024 A new way to measure the ocean oxygen level and its connections with carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere during the last ice age could help explain the role oceans played in past glacial ...
Jan. 10, 2024 The ocean plays a crucial role in the storage of carbon dioxide (CO2). The so-called marine biological carbon pump is an important research topic in this context. However a key component is often ...
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- Companies Ignoring Climate Risks Get Punished by Markets, New Study Reveals
- Gloom and Doom Warnings About Climate Change Do Not Work
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- Climate Change Policies Lose Popularity When Combined With Pausing Regulations or Social Justice
- North American Cities May See a Major Species Turnover by the End of the Century
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- New Study Reveals Insight Into Which Animals Are Most Vulnerable to Extinction Due to Climate Change
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
- Plant Lavender, Marjoram and Ivy on Your Green Wall to Clean Up the Air
- Gen Z's Climate Anxiety Is Real and Needs Action -- For Everyone's Wellbeing
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- Greenhouse Gases in Oceans Are Altered by Climate Change Impact on Microbes
- The Ocean May Be Storing More Carbon Than Estimated in Earlier Studies
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- Alarming Results from World First Study of Two Decades of Global Smoke Pollution
- Effective Visual Communication of Climate Change
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- Land-Sea Relationship Is Major Driver of Coral Reef Health Outcomes
- Classroom Environmental Education Doesn't Change Attitudes
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- Climate Change Threatens 771 Endangered Plant and Lichen Species
- Arctic Terns May Navigate Climate Dangers
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- We've Pumped So Much Groundwater That We've Nudged Earth's Spin
- Scientists Discover Urea in Atmosphere Revealing Profound Consequences for Climate
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- Social Comparisons Better Than Knowledge in Climate Change Mitigation Interventions
- How to Prepare for Ocean Acidification, a Framework
- Climate Change Threatens Lemurs on Madagascar
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- Past Records Help to Predict Different Effects of Future Climate Change on Land and Sea
- What Makes People Care About the Environment?
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- World Needs Ambitious Zero Percent New Plastic Waste Target by 2040
- Water Is Critical for Success on Climate Action