climate change
-
Hydroelectric Dams Are Taking a Toll on Endangered Big Cats, Study Shows
Big cats are among the most widespread top predators on Earth. Lions stalk zebra in the African savanna, tigers ambush antelope in the forests of Asia and jaguars hunt deer in the jungles of South America. They play an important role in ecosystems by regulating the numbers of these herbivores, in turn, reducing the deterioration…
-
There It Is: As Climate Change Worsens So Will Our Bushfires
Eucalypt forests are well known for bouncing back after fire, and the green shoots that emerge from eucalypts stems as they begin their first steps to recovery provide some of the most iconic images of the Australian bush. Resprouting allows trees to survive and quickly start photosynthesising again, which keeps carbon “alive” and stored in…
-
Amazon Is Helping Researchers Study How to Dim the Sun
Computer processors across Amazon Web Services recently hummed into gear to create 30 simulations of what Earth could look like by the middle of this century. Normally, climate models run on supercomputers. But this effort on Amazon’s servers represents one of the first attempts to do modelling on the cloud and could revolutionise how modelling…
-
Unsurprising, But Still Devastating, CSIRO Links Australia’s Forest Fires to Climate Change
According to CSIRO, climate change has driven a significant increase in Australia’s forest fire activity over the last three decades. It’s news that comes as no surprise to many but is still devastating to hear. The claim was made in research CSIRO had published over the weekend in the Nature Communications journal. As we approach…