Tag: climate change
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NATURE: Climate engineering faces hostility — here’s how scientists say it might move forwards
Climate engineering has long been seen as the rogue approach to global warming. Public opposition has stymied field experiments of this strategy, which aims to artificially cool the Earth. Dozens of countries have called for an end to the development of climate-engineering approaches. Critics say that such projects could have disastrous unintended consequences.
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NATURE: Ferocity of Atlantic hurricanes surges as the ocean warms
Climate change sharply intensified almost 85% of hurricanes that hit the North Atlantic between 2019 and 2023, according to a modelling study1. The wind speed of those hurricanes rose by an average of nearly 30 kilometres per hour — enough to have pushed 30 storms up a level on the Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane intensity.
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NATURE: How to climate-proof crops: scientists say the secret’s in the dirt
Evidence is building that regenerative agriculture boosts soil health, which, in turn, could bolster food security.
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NATURE: Do disruptive climate protests work? Real-time survey finally offers answers
Support for a moderate environmental group rose after a motorway closure, substantiating the ‘radical flank effect’.
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NATURE: Mexican forest ‘relocated’ in attempt to save iconic monarch butterflies
A high-altitude planting could buffer the trees, and the migratory butterflies that roost in them, against the effects of climate change.
ALIX SOLIMAN 