Not exact matches
University of Queensland and CSIRO PhD student Viv Tulloch, affiliated with the ARC Centre of Excellence for
Environmental Decisions, said this was the first time
researchers had used this approach to
predict future Southern Hemisphere whale numbers.
And some diseases that spread among people might turn out to be nearly impossible to
predict using satellite and
environmental data beyond what
researchers already know about seasonal cycles, like that for the seasonal flu.
The
researchers are hoping to identify more precisely the factors related to socioeconomic status, other
environmental factors, or genetic components that could
predict which types of reading interventions will be successful for individual students.
Gabriele Villarini, UI associate professor of civil and
environmental engineering and corresponding author on the paper, says
researchers honed in on
predicting the impacts of tropical cyclones because that information is generally more useful than typical forecasts that
predict how many storms are expected in a season.
More than 100
researchers have collaborated to classify the world's tropical forests according to their evolutionary history, a process that will help
researchers predict the resilience or susceptibility of different forests to global
environmental changes.
In the new study, published today in
Environmental Research Letters,
researchers from Russia used climate models of sea - ice concentrations to
predict what will happen to one optimal trade route along the Northern Sea Route in the future.
The documents, unveiled by Dutch newspaper De Correspondent on Thursday, show that the oil giant's
researchers flagged that climate change could have major implications for the fossil fuel industry as far back as the 1980s — and
predicted that
environmental groups could sue following damages from extreme weather.