climate-change

Temperature Affects the Quality of Male Frogs’ Mating Calls. Females Hear the Difference.

Polar bears can struggle to adapt to climate change. Bears on Svalbard may be surviving on land prey and seals — but scientists warn it may not last.

In Bangladesh, a large and growing population lives in one of the most dynamic and sensitive environments on Earth, subject to multiple natural disasters and threatened by climate change.

Scientists explore how corals could adapt to climate change to survive, but stress that cutting emissions is crucial for their future. The post Can coral evolution keep pace with climate change? appeared first on Advanced Science News .

We have just completed our effort with the GEOframe Mumbai Monsoon School, inserted in a larger initiative, of the GISE HUB which included one day long SCPP workshop on "Recent Advances in Hydrological Modelling" on 31st July. Besides being trained on GEOframe, hands on training on Dynamic Budyko model was provided by prof. Basudev Biswal ( GS ) and his postdoc Prashant Istalkar . Lectures on th…

Mahesh Sankaran is Professor at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bengaluru where he heads the Community and Ecosystems Ecology lab. He is the recipient of the Infosys Prize 2021 for Life Sciences, the first ecologist to have won this prestigious award. In this interview, he talks about his work on grasslands and climate change, and on winning the Infosys Prize. The interview ha…

Ecology & Conservation Science - Juniper Publishers Abstract This paper accounts for a case of substantial transformation of the treeline ecotone (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) in the Swedish Scandes. During the past 100 years, coinciding with summer warming by 1.6 °C, the ecotonal landscape changed from predominance of stunted krummholz individuals to a mosaic of tree groves and intervening alpi…

Geographers from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have been investigating climate change and land use in the Southern Levant since the last ice age. In conjunction with other researchers from Jordan, Israel and Palestine, they have been examining dust deposits in ancient ruins, reservoirs and terraced fields to the east and west...

Bumblebees, generally speaking, are having a rough time. In a world increasingly dominated by humans, some bumblebee species continue to thrive while many others are seriously struggling. Several are nearing extinction. A recent study involving 67 species of European and North American bumblebees concluded that climate change is having a major impact. Bumblebees do not […]