Sentences with phrase «climate change studies finds»

«Feral animals pose major threat to Outback, climate change study finds: Australia has lost about 30 mammal species since European arrival.»

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In the study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute write that widely quoted U.S. State Department findings that the oilsands pipeline wouldn't make a significant difference missed a major source of greenhouse gas emissions.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

The same University of Michigan study found that relying too much on «local weather observations» can be an impediment to understanding the worldwide reality of climate change.

Findings in the new report warn that more than 40 percent of the species included in the study show «high vulnerability» to climate change.

A Media Matters study found that ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox News spent just over two hours — combined — discussing the possibility of climate change in 2013.

A new paper published by scientists in the Northeast finds that long - term studies at the local scale are needed to accurately predict and manage the effects of climate change.

The resolution states that the House will «create and support economically viable, and broadly supported private and public solutions to study and address the causes and effects of measured changes to our global and regional climates, including mitigation efforts and efforts to balance human activities that have been found to have an impact.»

Researchers found that having a teacher who believed climate change was occurring — as 92 percent of students in the study did — was a «strong, positive predictor» of students» belief in global warming.

Their study, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, also found evidence that climate change is skewing the proportion of record high temperatures to record low temperatures in the continental United States, with extremely hot days now outnumbering extremely cold days by 2 - to - 1.

A new study finds that sea levels are creeping up faster along the coast of North Carolina thanks to climate change

Published this week in Nature Climate Change, the initial study finds that embankments constructed since the 1960s are primarily to blame for lower land elevations along the Ganges - Brahmaputra River Delta, with some areas experiencing more than twice the rate of the most worrisome sea - level rise projections from the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

A new WRI study, in fact, finds that the bank does not put climate change at the center of its work.

Studying the western spring beauty wildflower, Dartmouth College's Zak Gezon and his colleagues found that climate change may harm early - flowering plants not through plant - pollinator mismatch but through frost damage.

Previous studies have found that belief in climate change is linked to more support for climate change actions.

The oceans near Antarctica that absorb carbon and protect our planet from climate change have been working robustly in the past decade, finds a new study published yesterday in Science.

While many previous studies predicted a future increase in humus levels as a result of climate change, based on their current findings, the TUM scientists are critical of this assumption: If the input of organic matter stagnates, soil will lose some of its humus in the long term.

After plugging all this information into computer models, they found that access to scientific information has a minimal effect on the public's opinion about climate change, while weather extremes have no noticeable effect whatsoever (which slightly contrasts with a 2011 study).

An ornithologist at the University of Rhode Island who studies the physiological changes that birds undergo to migrate has found that the capacity of a bird's gut to change with environmental conditions is a primary limiting factor in their ability to adapt to the rapidly changing climate.

In their study, the researchers found no evidence for the widespread idea that evolutionary adaptations to these two aspects of climate change would interfere with each other.

An ornithologist who studies the physiological changes that birds undergo to migrate has found that the capacity of a bird's gut to change with environmental conditions is a primary limiting factor in their ability to adapt to the rapidly changing climate.

Building on this study's findings, ZSL is conducting further research to explore whether and how climate change impacts on wild dogs might be mitigated.

The study found that none of the «dismissive» group — those who don't think the climate is changing or want legislation — believe global warming will harm the United States in 50 years.

A new study published in Nature Climate Change looks at the next 10,000 years, and finds that the catastrophic impact of another three centuries of carbon pollution will persist millennia after the carbon dioxide releases cease.

A new study in Nature Climate Change finds that warming and declines in soil moisture, but also vine management practices to lower yields to produce better - quality grapes, brought the fruit to early maturity.

Another possible issue with attribution science, he says, is that the current generation of simulations simply may not be capable of capturing some of the subtle changes in the climate and oceans — a particular danger when it comes to studies that find no link to human activities.

«You can't just blindly go ahead and reforest and that will tackle climate change,» he says, pointing out a key finding in the study.

There have been exceptions: studies have found that the European heatwave in 2003 was twice as likely because of climate change, and that the UK floods in 2000 were also made more likely.

As expected, study authors found a partisan gap between Democrats and Republicans in their stated opinions on climate change, with Democrats expressing the highest level of concern and scientific agreement.

A U.S. Forest Service (USFS) study found that between 53 and 97 percent of natural trout populations in the Southern Appalachian region of the U.S. could disappear due to warmer temperatures predicted by global climate change models.

Even without avian diseases and climate change, the honeycreepers still face threats from habitat loss, introduced predators and competition with non-native birds (some of whom, such as the Japanese bush - warbler, are thriving on the plateau, the study finds).

One positive finding of the ecological niche modelling study is that while the ranges of many species are expected to contract, much of the remaining suitable habitat for many species will be located within existing protected areas, and that the recent creation of new reserves such as Itombwe and Kabobo in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have greatly increased the protection of some species under threat by future climate change.

Despite countless findings to the contrary, a large portion of the population doesn't believe that scientists agree on the existence of human - caused climate change, which affects their willingness to seek a solution to the problem, according to a 2011 study in Nature Climate climate change, which affects their willingness to seek a solution to the problem, according to a 2011 study in Nature Climate Cchange, which affects their willingness to seek a solution to the problem, according to a 2011 study in Nature Climate Climate ChangeChange.

Later, as he studied how climate change was impacting vegetative growth as a postdoc at UC Santa Cruz, Ram found that colleagues weren't willing to hand over the raw measurements behind published data, or the algorithms that supported the authors» conclusions.

Co-author Matthew Spencer, who conducted the study while a sabbatical visitor at NIMBioS, said that the findings are not only important for predicting reef futures under climate change but could also be applied to other ecosystems.

The IPCC draft report is the third and final study in a U.N. series about climate change, updating findings from 2007, after the Japan report about the impacts and one in September in Sweden about climate science.

After a decade of studying the Western toad (Bufo boreas) in Oregon's Cascade Mountains, herpetologists Joseph Kiesecker of Pennsylvania State University, University Park, and Andrew Blaustein and Lisa Belden of Oregon State University in Corvallis found that climate change triggers a chain of ultimately fatal events.

The study findings have implications for managing the forest composition of watersheds to ensure water supply under future climate change.

Scientific experiments to measure the rate and effects of climate change on plants aren't matching up to what is happening in nature, a new study finds.

A study in the journal Science finds that the Northern and Southern hemispheres may be undergoing climate change in distinct ways.

Climate change and expanding seas could cause the waters beneath the Golden Gate Bridge to rise 3 to 4 feet by century's end, a new study finds.

A 2010 study in Biology Letters found some worrying evidence of a global decline in snakes, possible related to habitat deterioration, lack of prey and, maybe, climate change.

Other studies have found that plants prove more resilient in the face of climate change than anticipated, so further field experiments will be needed to determine if this gloomy prognosis is correct.

Hurricane Harvey's record rainfall was three times more likely than a storm from the early 1900s and 15 percent more intense as a result of climate change, a new study in Environmental Research Letters found.

A new study released yesterday in the journal Nature Climate Change found that extreme wet and dry spells within the monsoon period have increased since 1980.

In addition, developed nations are making mistakes when reporting emissions of the gases, called hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the study finds.

A study in Japan finds that after people unplug appliances and turn down the A-C, they are more resistant to nationwide climate change measures

This finding could influence how researchers study the effects of climate change.

Kansas State University researchers are involved in a study that found climate change is predicted to reduce big bluestem's growth and stature.

«Climate change predicted to reduce size, stature of dominant Midwest plant, study finds.»