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Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment
Conservationists, ecologist Mark Schwartz wrote nearly three decades ago, faced a looming conundrum: Many species would likely be unable to keep up with the projected pace of climate change and could face extinction as a result.
For decades, the ice shelf helping to hold back one of the fastest-moving glaciers in Antarctica has gradually thinned.
Some climate activists advocate large-scale tree-planting campaigns in forests around the world to suck up heat-trapping carbon dioxide and help rein in climate change.
Climate change exerts great pressure for change on species and biodiversity.
Researchers from Nara Institute of Science and Technology find that plants adapt to heat stress via an epigenetic memory mechanism, where JUMONJI proteins control small heat shock genes.
Satellites reveal fluctuation in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and releases from the Yangtze River.
