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Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment
The first study into the global impact of wildfire-related pollution and deaths comprehensively links short term exposure to wildfire-related fine particulate matters (PM2.5) in the air and all-cause, respiratory and cardiovascular mortalities across cities and regions around the globe.
Scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics (LIAG), the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) and other partners have researched the stability and development of landscapes in the Wendland region of Hanover during the past Eemian Interglacial (warm period) around 120,000 years ago.
Longer hotter and drier spells in countries around the world due to climate change could hit important global crops within the next 50 years.
The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth.
Drilling deep into the Greenland ice sheet, researchers reconstructed the jet stream's tumultuous past and found that climate-caused disruptions are likely to have drastic weather-related consequences for societies on both sides of the Atlantic.
Low oxygen levels are pushing fish into shallower waters, with potentially devastating impacts for fisheries and ecosystems.
