How deforestation of tropical rainforests play a role in excess CO_2 in the atmosphere? Briefly explain how forests are impacted by climate change and how forests themselves may offset aspects of climate change. What are the three harmful effects of the clearing and d...
Analysis of cosmic ray re-acceleration showed that Fermi bubbles may be responsible for the formation of the CR spectrum above the “knee” of the observed spectrum, i.e., at energies greater than 3×1015 eV (energy range “B” in Fig. 2). To put this into perspective, the energy of ...
What are the natural causes of climate change? What causes major temperature inversions in the atmosphere? Why doesn't the moon have a magnetic field? What causes evaporation? What causes ocean water to become denser? What makes water move through the water cycle?
Some of the gases we hurl into the air stay in the atmosphere, trapping heat around our planet like a blanket. This is known as the "greenhouse effect" and it's giving rise to probably the biggest environmental challenge of all, climate change, which could have a devastating effect on ...
When they see other students doing better than them, they usually believe that those students have a higher IQ and that there is nothing they can do to change their situation. However, new research into EQ (Emotional Quotient) suggests that success is not simply the result of a...
the 20th century, especially in the 1970s and 1980s [3,4,5,6]. Several large protected areas have been established in the Sahel-Sudan region to promote vegetation restoration, protect animals, and mitigate the impacts of climate change, such as the W National Park in West Africa [2,7,8...
All you can do is change it into another form or move it to another place. If you open your refrigerator door in the hope that you'll cool the kitchen, all the heat that gets drawn in has to go somewhere else. The only place it can go is out of the back of the machine. You ...
Southeast Asia is also characterized by a low speciation rate but, unlike the Neotropics, is the main source of dispersal events through time. Our results suggest that global climate change throughout the Cenozoic, combined with tropical niche conservatism, played a major role in generating the ...
The relationship between plant productivity and species richness is one of the most debated and important issues in ecology. Ecologists have found numerous forms of this relationship and its underlying processes. However, theories and proposed drivers ha
Sceptics who still doubt anthropogenic climate change have now been stripped of one of their last-ditch arguments: It is true that there has been a warming hiatus and that the surface of the earth has warmed up much less rapidly since the turn of the millennium than all the relevant climate...