Stream flow and community stability
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 07 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02158-0
Stream flow and community stability
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Is climate anxiety a pressing problem, or a luxury?
This story is part of the Grist arts and culture series Moral Hazards, a weeklong exploration of the complex — sometimes contradictory — factors that drive our ethical decision-making in the age of global warming.
In May 2014, Kate Schapira carted a little table with a hand-painted sign out to a park near her home in Providence, Rhode Island, and started listening to strangers’ problems. The sign read “Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth,” referencing an emotion that was relatively unknown, or at least seldom named, at the time. As an English professor, she had no psychological training, no climate science background. She could not offer expertise, simply an ear and a venue for people to unload worries.
And people came, tentatively but earnestly, as she brought the table out roughly 30 times over the rest of the summer. Those who …
Scientists have emotional responses to climate change too
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 03 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02139-3
The dominant paradigm holding that science is always objective needs to be challenged. When scientists’ opinions about climate change and their own fears are seen as irrelevant, it suggests that science is separate from society; however, this perspective ultimately weakens climate science.
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Cool Dinosaurs Pictures And Interesting Facts: The Coolest Dinosaurs
List of cool dinosaurs with pictures and facts. Discover the coolest dinosaurs of the Mesozoic Era!
Watch the video below to meet the world’s coolest dinosaurs!
Cool Dinosaurs
Cool dinosaurs are dinosaurs that have abilities, physical characteristics or lifestyles that are a little out of the ordinary. Chasmosaurus, for example, has a huge bony frill behind its head; Tarbosaurus had even smaller arms than T. rex; and Carnotaurus is a unique predatory dinosaur with horns.
We’re not saying that famous dinosaurs such as T. rex are boring – far from it – but on this page we’ve concentrated on lesser-known dinosaurs that true dinosaur fans will appreciate.
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…Major step up in carbon capture and storage needed to keep warming below 2 °C
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 26 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02112-0
A feasibility analysis reveals that carbon capture and storage capacity might be able to expand fast enough to meet the requirements of 2 °C climate pathways but will unlikely meet those for 1.5 °C. Moreover, carbon capture and storage is unlikely to capture and store more than 600 Gt of CO2 over the twenty-first century, which has implications for the global carbon budget.
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Satellite observations reveal the complex annual dynamics of tropical aboveground carbon
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 23 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02119-7
Tropical aboveground carbon is a crucial yet complex component of the terrestrial carbon budget. Here, remote observations reveal annual losses (from fire emissions and forest disturbances) and post-loss recovery of tropical aboveground carbon for 2010–2020, which overall resulted in tropical lands being a moderate carbon sink.
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Disproportionate impact of atmospheric heat events on lake surface water temperature increases
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 17 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02122-y
Lake surface water temperatures have increased over recent decades, mainly driven by atmospheric conditions. Here the authors demonstrate that heat events drive a disproportionately large part of this lake surface warming and increases in lake heatwaves.
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No one should be surprised that South America is burning
South America is experiencing its worst forest fire season in nearly two decades, with millions of acres burning across several countries. The blazes come amid the region’s worst drought on record, and are no surprise to climate scientists who have seen this coming for decades.
Satellite data analyzed by Brazil’s space research agency INPE identified a record-breaking 346,112 fire hotspots so far this year in the 13 countries of South America. All that smoke is so thoroughly choking large swaths of the continent that NASA satellites captured the plumes from 1 million miles away.
In Brazil, the continent’s largest country, about 59 percent of the country is facing drought conditions — an area roughly half the size of the United States — and Amazon basin rivers are flowing at historic lows. Three of the six vast ecosystems that define …