Droughts and heat waves have tripled in Europe
Droughts and heat waves have tripled in the last 50 years in Europe, with a corresponding reduction in harvests, especially cereals, indicates a study developed by three researchers from Universidade Nova.
The study, published in the scientific journal Environmental Research Letters , warns that the effects of climate change on harvests can lead to food shortages and higher prices.
Teresa Armada Brás, the researcher who led the study, explained to Lusa that, although there are many investigations that show the increase in the frequency of extreme climate events, the losses in agriculture associated to these events have not been studied.
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An aerial view shows the storage tanks for treated water at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan on Feb 13, 2021. [Photo/Agencies]
The peak of radioactive nuclear wastewater Japan plans to dump would reach the middle of the Pacific Ocean within two years of its release and eventually approach the west coast of the United States, a German study found.
Erik Behrens, a research fellow at the Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research in Kiel, Germany, copublished an essay in 2012 with his colleagues on Environmental Research Letters, which is also shared for open access online.
Skeptical Science New Research for Week #15, 2021
Flying beneath the radar of guilt
Fight or Flight: How Advertising for Air Travel Triggers Moral Disengagement (open access) by Stubenvoll & Neureiter not only takes an interesting approach to decomposing the effects of airline travel advertisements but also helps us to understand the general psychological landscape of our often conflicted desires. We re able to skillfully negotiate with ourselves so as to make poor choices while coming out with our self-esteem more or less intact. The abstract:
Advertising frequently promotes environmentally detrimental consumption choices such as air travel. To date, the effects of these ads on individuals’ moral evaluation of unsustainable behaviors are still little understood. This study with a quota-based sample in Germany (
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