The island’s vast ice sheet underwent multiple bouts of widespread melting this summer, exacerbated in August 2021 by rain.
Rain and Warmth Trigger More Melting in Greenland
articles
How Satellite Maps Help Prevent Another ‘Great Grain Robbery’
Vegetative health has become an important metric for climate scientists and meteorologists trying to understand how weather and temperature impact the health of crops, and as an extension, food security, food prices and the global agricultural market.
Biodiversity: Land Use – Threat to and Opportunity for Bumblebees
The global food system depends strongly on pollination by insects. According to the European Commission, this ecosystem service can be estimated to be worth several billion euros for Europe alone.
Drought Makes its Home on the Range
This year, the annual grasslands in part of California turned brown a month earlier than usual, shortening the grazing season.
As Disasters Mount, Central Banks Gird Against Threat of Climate Change
Climate change is rattling the world’s central bankers. With unprecedented heat and wildfires in the American West and southern Europe, and record floods racing through German towns and Chinese megacities in recent weeks, fears are growing among regulators of a coming cascade of climate-induced economic blows potentially more far-reaching and intractable than the financial crash just over a decade ago.
Texas A&M To Lead Center For Environmental Sustainability Through Insect Farming
A $2.2 million National Science Foundation grant will establish the center, where scientists will research the farming of insects as a potential food source.
