Insects that are adapted to perennially wet environments, like tropical rainforests, don’t tend to do well when their surroundings dry out.
Tropical Insects Are Extremely Sensitive to Changing Climates
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Study Unearths Ancient Reef Structure High and Dry on the Nullarbor Plain
Research author Dr Milo Barham, from the Timescales of Mineral Systems Group within Curtin’s School of Earth and Planetary Sciences said the finding further challenged the understanding that the Nullarbor Plain, which emerged from the ocean about 14 million years ago, was essentially flat and featureless.
How a Plant From the USA Invaded Europe
Alien species pose one of the world’s major environmental problems.
Warming Waters Challenge Atlantic Salmon, Both Wild and Farmed
Whether roaming wild or enclosed in floating feedlots on the ocean, Atlantic salmon are cold-water fishes.
Smoke Blankets the Amazon
In the absence of human intervention, most of the forests in the Amazon River basin are too wet to burn. Yet for as long as scientists have observed the region by satellite, they have detected an abundance of fire activity, especially during the driest months of the year.
Global Warming Doubled the Risk for Copenhagen’s Historic 2011 Cloudburst
It is seven o'clock in the evening on July 2nd, 2011. A cloudburst of historic proportions has just struck north of Copenhagen.
