Polluted air and steadily rising temperatures are linked to health effects ranging from increased heart attacks and strokes to the spread of infectious diseases and psychological trauma.
To get a better picture of how wildlife will cope,in a recent study Wiens focused on about 500 plants and animalsworldwide, looking at where they have already become locally extinct as the world has warmed. His results suggest that what matters most is the maximum annual tempera...
This pounding of heavy rain in a short span is resulting in high levels of floodings, infrastructural damage, property loss all of which can clearly be linked with rising temperatures, global warming, and this frequency is only going to increase, he cautioned. The monsoon pa...
But De Jong suddenly becomes animated when he’s asked about the newest genome engineering tools. “This is what I have been waiting my whole career for,” he says, throwing his hands up. “As long as I have been a potato scientist, I’ve wanted two things: a sequenced potato genome ...
The disruption of the decadal cycle was noticed post-1995 and was followed by a slowdown in the sea surface warming. The cause for the disruption of the SST decadal cycle was the weakening of the link between SST and sunspot number. The rising trend in the SST is due to the increasing ...
Why is breathing more difficult at high altitudes, such as at the top of Mount Everest? Why is the temperature rising in Antarctica? How does Mount Kilimanjaro affect the surrounding area? Why don't plants with herbaceous stems usually grow tall? Why can ferns grow taller than mosses? Why ...
Why is the temperature rising in Antarctica? Why are the Himalayas growing in height? Why is the Antarctic Peninsula warming? Why is Antarctica frozen? Why are deserts so hot and so cold? Why is the mesosphere cold? Why is it so cold in the tundra biome? Why does it feel cold in the...
Why Bachchan is So Big ; In a new India that applauds the rising sun that speaks for youth and against dogmatism, Bachchan has retained his mystique not only for those who watched him grow but also for those who were introduced to him on Direct-To-Home boxes....
Climate change -- marked by rising sea levels, ice loss and extreme weather -- is accelerating, according to a new report, which found that the five-year period between 2014 and 2019 was the warmest on record. The report, which was released by the intergovernmental World Meteorological ...
Chris Bradleyis a McKinsey senior partner and a director of MGI in Sydney;Jeongmin Seongis an MGI partner in Shanghai;Nick Leungis a McKinsey senior partner in Hong Kong and a member of the MGI Council;Lola Woetzelis a McKinsey senior partner and a director of MGI in Shanghai;Kweilin Ell...