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Climate Predictions Could Be Wrong in UK and Europe
Current climate change predictions in the UK and parts of Europe may be inaccurate, a study conducted by researchers from the University of Lincoln, UK, and the University of Liège, Belgium, suggests. Existing computer model simulations have failed to properly include air pressure changes that have occured in the Greenland region throughout the past 30… Read More
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Renewable Energy Crosses Party Lines, Unites Americans
Last month’s Ford-Kavanaugh hearing is yet another example of how partisan this country has become in recent years. Considering this political climate where Republicans and Democrats are sharply divided — seemingly on all key issues — is it possible for Americans to come together on any single issue? It doesn’t seem likely, but researchers from… Read More
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Evolution Can’t Keep Up with Rapid Extinction
If conservation efforts are not vastly improved, mammal species will die off so quickly in the next 50 years that it will take nature 3-5 million years to recover, researchers from Aarhus University, Denmark, and the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, find. Five mass extinctions have occurred over the past 450 million years. But, they happened… Read More
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Why Food Can Taste Different Through VR
Our five senses come into play when we taste food. The ambience is important too. Most of us would agree that grabbing a quick burger at the local diner is not quite the same as enjoying steak frites at an upscale French restaurant. That our environment influences our food taste is driven home by a… Read More
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Puerto Rico’s Insects Are Declining at an Alarming Rate
The number of arthropods in the tropical forests of northeastern Puerto Rico has dropped 60-fold since the mid-1970s, researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México find. Arthropods include invertebrate animals such as insects, millipedes, sowbugs and others. Their decline has directly coincided with an overall temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius… Read More
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How Stereotypes Make Female Leaders Rare
Men and women both prefer leadership traits that are stereotypically masculine, New York University researchers find. This discovery could help to explain why women are still significantly underrepresented in leadership roles. While women hold 52 percent of professional level jobs, they fill only 14.6 percent of executive officer positions. It is a common stereotype that… Read More
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Sustainable Fashion Feels Good and Looks Even Better
Sustainability has a new look. No longer just about hand-me-downs in families and vintages in thrift stores, sustainable fashion has been the talk of the year in the fashion industry. As more consumers are getting interested, the market is responding. According to a research by Common Objective, in the past six years, Google searches for… Read More
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Clean Water Act Dramatically Cuts Pollution, but at What Cost?
The 1972 Clean Water Act has significantly improved the quality of water in the U.S., but the costs of the act are outweighing the measured benefits, a recent study finds. The Clean Water Act is noted as one of the greatest successes of all time in environmental law. Fifty years ago, the Cuyahoga River was… Read More
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Why the World Should Turn to Ocean-Based Climate Solutions
Transitioning to ocean-based renewable energy sources has a high potential for slowing down climate change and its impacts, a new study published in Frontiers shows. The world is already seeing the effects of climate change — from more damaging hurricanes to megafires — that take a toll on human health. And even if the Paris… Read More
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Passionate College Student Has Rescued Over 3,000 Desperate Animals
When children are young, they often have a dream. Whether it is to be the next Michael Jordan, a firefighter, or to build the biggest, baddest roller coaster the world has ever seen — many of those dreams dissipate after kids lose their youth-powered hope. Twenty-one-year-old Zabi Khan never let his dream fall by the… Read More
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Fighting Fake News by Targeting the Source, Not the Story
The onslaught of media in the social media era has made it ever-more challenging to know what news to trust. The phrase “fake news” has become a part of common parlance as fabricated stories stating false or misleading claims spread misinformation to thousands, even millions, of readers each day. This has created a major problem… Read More
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New System Stores Summer Solar Energy for Use In Winter, at Night
The future of solar energy may not look the way you might expect. As solar panel and battery technologies grow more and more sophisticated, making it possible to dream of a day where we live off the sun’s energy, scientists at Chalmers University, Sweden, are developing a bold new solar technology — a chemical liquid… Read More
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Why Mental Illness Should Be One of our Largest Climate Concerns
Most people can agree that natural disasters, such as hurricanes, droughts, wildfires and floods devastate communities. They injure, kill, displace and change people’s lives forever. Major disasters often receive at least some coverage and aid immediately after they happened, but they rarely get the attention they deserve in the years that follow. People move on.… Read More
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Global Warming Will Intensify Mediterranean Wildfires, if We Don’t Change
Global warming will increase the potential of wildfire damage in Mediterranean Europe, a study led by researchers from the University of Barcelona (UB) finds. The good news is, if the world can limit global warming to just 1.5 degrees Celsius, the damage from wildfires will be significantly less. “To draw this conclusion we combined regional… Read More
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Thickening Plant Leaves: A New Threat to Climate Change
In some parts of the world, CO2 levels have risen so high that plant leaves have begun to thicken. Because thicker plant leaves are less efficient at absorbing carbon dioxide, this seemingly harmless physiological response to rising carbon dioxide levels may worsen the effects of climate change, according to researchers at the University of Washington.… Read More
