Focusing on a particular town devastated by a hurricane, flooding, or wildfire can sharpen our attention and turn generalizations about climate change into concrete instances we can both understand and feel. So, too, focusing on particular kinds of trees can […]
https://phys.org/news/2021-01-peat-bogs-climate-revive-forgotten.htmlBogs, mires, fens and marshes—just their names seem to conjure myth and mystery. Though today, our interest in these waterlogged landscapes tends to be more prosaic. Because of a lack of oxygen, they can build […]
https://phys.org/news/2020-12-great-lakes-advocates-administration-climate.htmlWith the Earth on track to finish out another year among the warmest on record and the impact of climate change mounting around the globe, advocates around the Great Lakes are looking ahead to what […]
https://phys.org/news/2021-01-two-thirds-earth-pace-climate.htmlThe world watched with a sense of dread in 2018 as Cape Town, South Africa, counted down the days until the city would run out of water. The region’s surface reservoirs were going dry amid […]
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