How is climate change affecting public lands and what are land management agencies doing about it? A team of scientists from the fields of sociology, watershed sciences, wildland resources, ecology, environment and society, mathematic, and outdoor recreation and tourism asked these questions in a recent Ecosphere study.
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Marine Mammals’ Adaptations to Low Oxygen Offer New Perspective on COVID-19
When Terrie Williams began hearing about the wide range of symptoms experienced by patients with COVID-19, she saw a connection between the various ways the disease is affecting people and the many physiological adaptations that have enabled marine mammals to tolerate low oxygen levels during dives.
Not Enough Hazelnuts? Our Future Climate Points to Australia for New Cultivations
Over the last decade, growing food industry led demand for hazelnuts has not been satisfied globally with a corresponding expansion in supply.
No Country Immune from the Health Harms of Climate Change
CU Boulder one of 35 institutions to contribute to the 2020 Lancet Countdown report
Flood Risk for Low-Income Housing in U.S. Could Triple by 2050
The study, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, found that this tripling will occur even if nations manage to drastically reduce their emissions, due to heating already locked into the climate system.
Coasts Drown as Coral Reefs Collapse Under Warming & Acidification
A new study shows the coastal protection coral reefs currently provide will start eroding by the end of the century, as the world continues to warm and the oceans acidify.
