Puerto Rico is not ready for another hurricane season, let alone the effects of climate change, according to a new study that shows the island’s outstanding capacity to produce record-breaking floods and trigger a large number of landslides.
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Sensing What Plants Sense: Integrated Framework Helps Scientists Explain Biology and Predict Crop Performance
Scientists have invested great time and effort into making connections between a plant’s genotype, or its genetic makeup, and its phenotype, or the plant’s observable traits.
Carbon Dioxide Peaks Near 420 Parts Per Million at Mauna Loa Observatory
There was no discernible signal in the data from the global economic disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Papers Explore Massive Plankton Blooms with Very Different Ecosystem Impacts
“The big mystery about plankton is what controls its distribution and abundance, and what conditions lead to big plankton blooms,” said Dennis McGillicuddy, Senior Scientist and Department Chair in Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI).
Warmer Clouds, Cooler Planet
New paper: precipitation-related “feedback” cycle means models may overestimate warming
Climate Change a Bigger Threat to Landscape Biodiversity Than Emerald Ash Borer
The emerald ash borer, an invasive beetle native to Southeast Asia, threatens the entire ash tree population in North America and has already changed forested landscapes and caused tens of billions of dollars in lost revenue to the ash sawtimber industry since it arrived in the United States in the 1990s.


