Puerto Rico is prone to more flooding than the island is prepared to handle
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African great apes to suffer massive range loss in next 30 years
A new study predicts massive range declines of Africa's great apes -- gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos -- due to the impacts of climate change,...
New insights into survival of ancient Western Desert peoples
Researchers have used more than two decades of satellite-derived environmental data to form hypotheses about the possible foraging habitats of pre-contact Aboriginal peoples living...
The search for mountain snow microalgae
The life of the microscopic algae that inhabit snow at high elevations is still relatively unknown. Researchers have therefore created the ALPALGA consortium to...
A few common bacteria account for majority of carbon use in soil
Fewer than ten common bacterial taxa are responsible for the majority of soil carbon cycling, a team led by researchers announced. The study, which...
Experiment evaluates the effect of human decisions on climate reconstructions
The first double-blind experiment analysing the role of human decision-making in climate reconstructions has found that it can lead to substantially different results.
Wetter is better for peat carbon
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 07 June 2021; doi:10.1038/s41558-021-01072-zThe role of peatlands in future climate change is uncertain because peat-derived greenhouse gas emissions are...
Tradeoff of CO<sub>2</sub> and CH<sub>4</sub> emissions from global peatlands under water-table drawdown
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 07 June 2021; doi:10.1038/s41558-021-01059-wThe climate impact of water-table drawdown in peatlands is unclear as carbon dioxide emissions increase and...
Study of past South Asian monsoons suggests stronger monsoon rainfall in the future
New research finds that increases in monsoon rainfall over the past million years were linked with increases in atmospheric CO2 and the import of...
Why scientists want to solve an underground mystery about where microbes live
A team of biologists revealed, for the first time, that it is possible to accurately predict the abundance of different species of soil microbes...
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