Climate Change Is Making It Harder to Get a Good Cup of Specialty Coffee
Ethiopia may produce less specialty coffee and more rather bland tasting varieties in the future. This is the result of a new study by an…
Ethiopia may produce less specialty coffee and more rather bland tasting varieties in the future. This is the result of a new study by an…
A study reported in the journal Current Biology has both good news and bad news for the future of African elephants. While about 18 million…
Negative Emissions, Positive Economy The long-term goals of the Paris Agreement — keeping global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius and ideally 1.5 C in…
Loss of water on land through ice melting and human-caused factors is changing the movement of the North and South poles. Glacial melting due to…
Digestive genes and anatomy are adapted to tough leaves, fruit, and even pine needles. Fruits and veggies are good for you and if you are…
The tree of life just got a little bigger: A team of scientists from the U.S. and China has identified an entirely new group of…
The disastrous consequences of climate “tipping points” could be averted if global warming was reversed quickly enough, new research suggests. Once triggered, tipping points may…
An international climate intervention workgroup publishes paper exploring the potential risks and benefits of a proposed high-tech climate intervention. Nine of the hottest years in…
Snow cover in the Alps has been melting almost three days earlier per decade since the 1960s. This trend is temperature-related and cannot be compensated…
Nearly a decade ago, global news outlets reported vast ice melt in the Arctic as sapphire lakes glimmered across the previously frozen Greenland Ice Sheet,…
Rising seas and inland-surging seawater are leaving behind the debris of dying forests. Now, 35 years of satellite images capture the changes from space. Emily…
A research study sheds new light upon an ongoing debate among conservation biologists: whether we should conserve sets of endangered species, or whether we should…
A Q&A with Berkeley Lab scientist Jeffrey Long on a material for capturing CO2. Human activity is now leading to the equivalent of 40 billion…
Scientists’ findings suggest corals will withstand climate change. Charles Darwin, the British naturalist who championed the theory of evolution, noted that corals form far-reaching structures,…
New paint formulation could help buildings rely less on air conditioning. In an effort to curb global warming, Purdue University engineers have created the whitest…
Despite important agricultural advancements to feed the world in the last 60 years, a Cornell-led study shows that global farming productivity is 21% lower than…
It is well known that climate-induced sea level rise is a major threat. New research has found that previous ice loss events could have caused…
Weathering of rocks can bind or release carbon dioxide — in active mountain ranges, carbon-dioxide release strongly dominates. Taiwan is an island of extremes: severe…