Serengeti leopard population densities healthy but vary seasonally, study finds
A study of camera-trap data from Serengeti National Park in Tanzania found that leopard population densities in the 3.7-million-acre park are similar to those...
Sea level rise from ice sheets track worst-case climate change scenario
Ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica whose melting rates are rapidly increasing have raised the global sea level by 1.8cm since the 1990s, and...
Hots dogs, chicken wings and city living helped wetland wood storks thrive
Using the Wood Stork, researchers compared city storks with natural wetland storks to gauge their success in urban environments based on their diet and...
Ice-sheet losses track high-end sea-level rise projections
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 31 August 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-0893-yObserved ice-sheet losses track the upper range of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report sea-level predictions, recently...
Rapid worldwide growth of glacial lakes since 1990
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 31 August 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-0855-4Warming is increasing glacial lakes, and scaling relations show a 48% increase in volume for 1990...
Arctic sea-ice loss intensifies aerosol transport to the Tibetan Plateau
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 31 August 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-0881-2Aerosol transport from South Asia to the Tibetan Plateau (TP) peaks in the pre-monsoon period, but...
Natural disasters must be unusual or deadly to prompt local climate policy change
Natural disasters alone are not enough to motivate local communities to engage in climate change mitigation or adaptation, a new study has found. Rather,...
Fossil trees on Peru’s Central Andean Plateau tell a tale of dramatic environmental change
The anatomy of plant fossils including an enormous tree that grew 10 million years ago in the now arid, high-elevation Central Andean Plateau calls...
How Neanderthals adjusted to climate change
Climate change occurring shortly before their disappearance triggered a complex change in the behavior of late Neanderthals in Europe: they developed more complex tools,...
Failures of Germany’s largest cliff coast sensed by seismometers
In a study carried out over more than two years, scientists were able to draw a new and surprisingly detailed picture of coastal cliff...
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