Climate Change is Affecting Crop Yields and Reducing Global Food Supplies
Climate change has affected agricultural yields in many places, reducing global production of staples such as rice and wheat and shrinking food supplies, particularly in food-insecure developing...
View ArticleAs Alaska Overheats, Trump Administration Policies Could Make Things Worse
As Alaska experiences its hottest days on record, a result of human-caused climate change, the Trump administration pursues policies in Alaska that will make climate change even more extreme.
View ArticleWhy Carbon Dioxide Has Such Outsized Influence on Earth’s Climate
The key to carbon dioxide's strong influence on climate is its ability to absorb heat emitted from our planet's surface, keeping it from escaping out to space.
View ArticleTrophy Hunting: Can It Really Be Justified By “Conservation Benefits”?
Even if trophy hunting can produce conservation benefits, it is unethical to cause the death and suffering of individual animals to save a species.
View ArticleDisbanded EPA Air Science Panel Meets Anyway, Finds Particle Pollution...
Our panel met publicly to carry out a scientific review of the EPA's draft summary of scientific findings on the health effects of fine particle air pollution. We concluded that existing standards for...
View ArticleEmperor Penguins Could March to Extinction If Nations Fail to Halt Climate...
Our newly published study found that if climate change continues at its current rate, Emperor Penguins could virtually disappear by the year 2100 due to loss of Antarctic sea ice.
View ArticleExamining How Primates Make Vowel Sounds Pushes Timeline For Speech Evolution...
That's over 100 times earlier than the emergence of our modern human form.
View Article“Bee-washing” hurts bees and misleads consumers
Bee populations are declining because of pesticides and other human-generated activities. Some studies estimate that more than 40 percent of insect species' numbers are falling and that the numbers of...
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