Global warming is a steadily increasing problem that is affecting the daily lives of people all over the world, including South Africa. It has the potential to cause extensive devastation in the future if action is not taken to mitigate it.By simple definition global warming is the gradual ...
World Bank specialists estimated that approximately 7 million people migrated - driven by food scarcity - out of the 80 million semi-starving in sub-Saharan Africa due to environmental factors, and this is only to be aggravated in the future due to global warming. South Africa, one of the mo...
Over 1 °C of warming has already occurred across parts of Africa. Sahara desert has been expanding at a rate of more than 11,000 Km2/year between 1950 and 2022. Less precipitation is predicted to occur over North Africa and the south-western regions of South Africa by 2040. COP27 has ...
Life cycle assessment has been used to investigate the global warming potential (GWP) and fossil-energy requirements of the production of biodiesel from canola (oilseed rape), soybean, and sunflower oils in South Africa. The effect of scale and transportation of raw materials and products was inv...
Global Warming, Greenhouse Effect, Climate Change. Undoubtedly, the single biggest threat to humanity.
In past millennia, warming was caused by shifts in the earth's orbit. That hasn’t happened this time. Effects of Current 1 C Warming The last time the planet was approached temperatures this warm was 116,000 to 127,000 years ago, during the Eemian Age. Global average annual surface ...
Global warming is working a bit like this. Thanks to a variety of things that people do, Earth is getting slightly warmer year by year. It's not really warming up noticeably—at least not in the short term. In fact, since 1900, the whole planet has warmed up only by around 1.1 degre...
A storage element is a major reason why emission of greenhouse gases lags in time their effect in the atmosphere. A sizable inventory in our oceans of energy-absorbing materials, whose volume is uncertain, is only one reason why it is difficult to modelglobal warmingeffects. ...
global warming increases the likelihood of record-breaking April extremes where we estimate that 29% of the 2016 anomaly was caused by warming and 49% by El Niño. These post-Niño Aprils can potentially be anticipated a few months in advance, and thus, help societies prepare for the ...
Under the conditions of global warming, the distribution range of S. frugiperda is expected to significantly increase [34,35]. In a warmer world, does the adaptability of S. frugiperda increase? To answer this question, we conducted a meta-analysis of 20 relevant reports by systematically retrie...