By presenting climate change through tangible examples, the abstract becomes concrete, the distant becomes local and the data becomes a loss that people can picture.
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Climate action depends on telling stories that make an impact, clarify stakes and inspire action.
You don’t have to go all the way to the Caribbean to find turquoise waters and white sand – Scotland has them too (and sunshine occasionally).
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Addressing the issue requires getting frequent flyers to shift from planes to trains, but also asking wider questions about where we want to go and why.
In a good year, the West’s mountain snowpack feeds streams and rivers well into summer.
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Streamflows the West relies on for drinking water and farms used to follow a fairly predictable arc as winter snow melted. Rising temperatures are changing that.
From wombat and mozzie surveillance to deciphering climate history and spotting star explosions, citizen scientists are instrumental in contributing knowledge.
PlantNet is the brainchild of a consortium composed of four French research organisations (CIRAD, Inria, INRAE and IRD) and the Agropolis Foundation. It has recorded over 80,000 plant species and registers, on average, 100,000-700,000 new users per day and is available in 54 languages.
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Pl@ntNet, the “shazam” for plants is a well-known app among the hiking community and nature enthusiasts, but not many know that it’s a precious resource for scientists.
Pennsylvania consistently ranks among the top three states in the country for reported Lyme disease cases each year.
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A University of Pittsburgh researcher is studying why Pennsylvania residents who regularly encounter ticks still underestimate their risk of Lyme disease.
Podcast produced in partnership with the Federal University of Pará (UFPA) and funded by the Council on Australia-Latin America Relations (COALAR), with support from The Conversation Australia, drew on more than 40 hours of interviews to provide an overview of what scientists are doing to fight the effects of climate change.
The podcast was created in partnership with UFPA to showcase what scientists in Brazil and Australia are doing to mitigate the impacts of climate change
