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Climate effects of aerosols reduce economic inequality

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 17 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-0699-y Anthropogenic aerosols mask some greenhouse warming via radiation scattering and cloud interactions. Research suggests the economic impact of this aerosol-induced cooling was small globally, although it benefitted developing countries in warm climates and harmed high-latitude developed countries.

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Categories: Environment/Climate

We Need an International Center for Climate Modeling

The science community must join forces to provide the most accurate long-term predictions and make their results publicly accessible

Fetched 3 months ago from Scientific American (USA)
Categories: Environment/Climate

Earlier leaf-out warms air in the north

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 17 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-0713-4 Climate change has led to earlier spring leaf-out in northern temperate and boreal regions. This advanced leaf-out causes warming in the Northern Hemisphere due to the combined effects of water vapour, cloud and snow-albedo feedbacks on the surface energy budget.

Fetched 4 months ago from Scientific American (USA)
Categories: Environment/Climate

Some food webs like it hotter

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 17 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-0706-3 Temperature affects the metabolic rates of species, their feeding interactions and their ability to persist in a given environment. Now research suggests that different effects of temperature on consumers and resources could cause food webs in cold climates to become less vulnerable to species loss, whereas tropical communities may be more vulnerable as temperatures climb.

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Crypt-keeper wasps can control the minds of 7 other species of wasp

It was thought parasites specialised in controlling just one host, but a newly discovered parasitic wasp can manipulate the behaviour of at least seven

Fetched 6 months ago from New Scientist - Home (USA)
Categories: Environment/Natural Disasters

Biodiversity of intertidal food webs in response to warming across latitudes

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 17 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-0698-z Global warming will affect food-web structure and species persistence, and real world data is needed for better prediction. Combining species counts and temperature data from rock pools with dynamic modelling predicts biodiversity increases in arctic to temperate regions and declines in the tropics.

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Dirty air offsets inequality

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 17 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-0714-3 Atmospheric aerosols have probably masked a significant portion of the greenhouse-gas-induced warming so far. Research now shows that this also may have masked some of the world's increasing economic inequality.

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Australia's Angry Summer: This Is What Climate Change Looks Like

The catastrophic fires raging across the southern half of the continent are largely the result of rising temperatures

Fetched 3 months ago from Scientific American (USA)
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Modified BCG vaccine could prevent TB in cattle and help end culls

A modified version of the BCG vaccine against tuberculosis could allow cattle around the world to be vaccinated against the disease

Fetched 4 months ago from New Scientist - Home (USA)
Categories: Environment/Natural Disasters