Temperature Variability News Today

Open access notables The distortionary effects of unconstrained for-profit carbon dioxide removal and the need for early governance intervention, Grubert & Talati, Carbon Management:

Cold snaps and heat waves associated with climate change lead to more deadly nest failures for songbirds, new Cornell research has found.

Injecting reflective particles into the atmosphere won’t immediately cool the entire planet. A new study shows how parts of the US, China and Europe might still see temperatures rising a decade later.

The COVID-19 pandemic that emerged in Wuhan city of China in December 2019 has adversely impacted the health and the economy, society, and other significant spheres of the human environment. The pandemic has severely impacted economic activities, especially the industrial production, transportation, tourism, and hoteling industries. The present study analyses the impact of varying severity of lockdowns of economic activities during various phases of the pandemic on the water quality of the Yamun...

UMD alumna shares lessons of the lakes, from the United States and Africa to Australia April Abbott, University of Minnesota Duluth student (MS ’11 Geology) and student researcher, said she chose UMD for her master’s degree because of the Large Lakes Observatory (LLO) and the R/V Blue Heron. “The program and mission had an exotic feel to it,” she says. When she began her work on her thesis, that “exotic feel” became very real. Africa’s Lake Malawi became a destination. Abbott fou...