Climate

Climate change and eye maladies

Clinical visits by patients suffering ocular surface eye conditions more than doubled during times when ambient particulate matter from air…

4 days ago

‘Chonkus’ Algae Found Off Italian Coast Holds Promise for Improve Climate Change Situation

A novel strain of cyanobacteria, informally called “Chonkus,” has been identified in hydrothermal waters off Italy's Vulcano Island, sparking interest…

1 week ago

How prisons fall short in protecting the incarcerated from climate disasters

Blistering heat, freezing cold, and overflowing sewage water: These were the living conditions that formerly incarcerated people in Colorado said…

2 weeks ago

Climate change parching the American West even without rainfall deficits

Higher temperatures caused by anthropogenic climate change made an ordinary drought into an exceptional drought that parched the American West…

2 weeks ago

When is a heat wave just a heat wave, and when is it climate change?

When extreme weather events occur, can we tell if they’re directly attributable to climate change? A new study used the…

3 weeks ago

Discovery of 3,775-year-old preserved log supports ‘wood vaulting’ as a climate solution

A new study published in the journal Science suggests that an ordinary old log could help refine strategies to tackle…

2 months ago

Climate change likely to increase diarrheal disease hospitalizations by 2100s in Dhaka, Bangladesh

By 2100, hospitalizations from diarrheal diseases are predicted to increase in the city of Dhaka in Bangladesh as a result…

2 months ago

Climate reporting standards insufficient, must be expanded, say experts

A new paper from the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford concludes that current climate standards…

3 months ago

Detecting climate change using aerosols

Researchers analyzed long-term aerosol satellite observation big data focusing on the Pacific Ocean downwind of China. Using a newly developed…

3 months ago

Climate anomalies may play a major role in driving cholera pandemics

New research suggests that an El Niño event may have aided the establishment and spread of a novel cholera strain…

4 months ago