A pyrocumulonimbus cloud forms over the Willow Fire near Payson, Arizona in July 2004. ERIC NEITZEL / WIKIMEDIA COMMONS January 28, 2019 – Early in the evening of August 12, 2017, heat and smoke from an intense wildfire burning in the forests of British Columbia began mushrooming skyward, sucking up ash, blazing wood and vegetation, […]
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Worry about global warming reaches record high
November 16, 2017 – Even as the Trump Administration tries to eliminate government programs and policies to address climate change, our latest national survey finds that the number of Americans “very worried” about global warming has reached a record high (22%) since first measured in 2008. A majority of Americans (63%) say they are “very” […]
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Lyme disease imposes large cost on the northeast United States
April 17, 2017 – As people across the northeastern U.S. begin venturing back into the outdoors with the arrival of spring, they will make 1 billion fewer trips than they otherwise would have if Lyme disease didn’t exist, a new Yale study concludes. In an analysis published in the journal Environmental and Resource Economics,, researchers […]
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Road salt can change sex ratios in frog populations, study says
Nov. 22, 2016 – Naturally occurring chemicals found in road salts commonly used to de-ice paved surfaces can alter the sex ratios in nearby frog populations, a phenomenon that could reduce the size and viability of species populations, according to a new study by scientists at Yale and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). The researchers found […]
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Predicting climate impacts on ecosystems will require scientists to widen the lens
Oct. 24, 2016 – Most research on climate change ecology is limited to the impacts of a single climate variable, such as temperature or water availability, on one trophic level at a time — and often on a single species. For instance, many studies have shown that increasing carbon dioxide levels can increase plant growth. […]