As oceans warm, snapping shrimp sound a warning
Scientists have confirmed their previous observations that rising temperatures increase the sound of snapping shrimp, a tiny crustacean found in temperate and tropical coastal...
A warming planet could mess with our sleep — and make us more vulnerable...
A warming planet doesn't just mean more people may find it harder to get quality sleep. There is also evidence suggesting that sleep disturbance...
How Atlantic air alters India’s food and water supply
Winter rain and snow in the western Himalayas could vary by almost 50%, due to effects from atmospheric conditions in the North Atlantic.
Better wildlife observation with new counting method
Are wildlife populations in Sweden increasing or decreasing? It is difficult to count wild animals, but the amount harvested through hunting gives an indication....
Noise affects life on the seafloor
Oceans have their own unique soundscape. Many marine organisms, for example, use sound for echolocation, navigation or communication with conspecifics. In recent decades, however,...
CRISPR-based tech targets global crop pest
Applying CRISPR-based technology to a broad agricultural need, scientists have developed a new technology aimed at Drosophila suzukii, the invasive fruit fly responsible for...
Museum collections indicate bees increasingly stressed by changes in climate over the past 100...
An analysis of bumblebee wings from a network of UK museums shows signs of stress linked to increasingly hotter and wetter conditions.
Food production impacting Earth and its natural processes
Food production is already one of the biggest stressors to our planet, but it's made substantially more challenging by the interaction of Earth system...
Snow research fills gap in understanding Arctic climate
Comprehensive data from several seasons of field research in the Alaskan Arctic will address uncertainties in Earth-system and climate-change models about snow cover across...
Climate-resilient breadfruit might be the food of the future
While researchers predict that climate change will have an adverse effect on most staple crops, including rice, corn and soybeans, a new study finds...
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