Pages tagged with: climate-change
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Climate change and ocean acidification
University of Plymouth's Marine Conservation Research Group : Climate change and ocean acidification
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Scientific basis for climate change ‘Endangerment Finding’ is stronger than ever
A group of researchers, including Professor Camille Parmesan from the University of Plymouth, say their findings could strengthen challenges to proposed efforts to rollback emissions standards and carbon emissions regulations in the United States.
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Combined local and global actions could lessen impacts of climate change
Increased oil and gas activities could combine with ocean warming and acidification to have a significant negative impact on marine organisms, a study by the Norwegian Research Centre AS and the University of Plymouth suggests
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Engaging Individuals in Responses to Climate Change
What's on at Plymouth University: Engaging Individuals in Responses to Climate Change. Opening up a new conversation about the role of citizens in facilitating climate mitigation. Plymouth University, 9 November 2015.
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Environmentalist to call for global planetary authority at Sustainable Earth Institute event
Angus Forbes, a former banker-turned-environmentalist and public speaker, is to deliver his Nessun Dorma talk and call for a global authority to control the Earth's biosphere.
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Recent summers likely to be the warmest of last two millennia
University of Plymouth news: Recent global warming lies outside of patterns experienced over the past 2,000 years supporting the suggestion it is being influenced by human activity, an international study involving University of Plymouth has found
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Immunity could be key to addressing coral crisis
A new commentary by Dr Caroline Palmer from the University of Plymouth, published in Nature’s Communications Biology, provides hope that a shift in research focus will support coral reef conservation and restoration efforts.
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University of Plymouth academic tops climate change paper citations
University of Plymouth Professor Camille Parmesan has the most highly cited climate change paper.
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A poison'd chalice tale of butterfly extinctions
Professor Michael C Singer, from the School of Biological and Marine Sciences at the University of Plymouth, explains how the diet of butterflies became his life's work
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Agriculture is destabilising the Earth system, according to new study
University of Plymouth news: In a new study, researchers have explored how agriculture is transgressing nine planetary boundaries
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Future proofing our dynamic coast requires an appropriate buffer zone
Gerd Masselink, Professor of Coastal Geomorphology at the University of Plymouth, says the time has come to avoid developments on our coastline and make use of Coastal Change Management Areas outlined within the National Planning Policy Framework
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Europe’s lost forests – study shows coverage has halved over six millennia
Research led by the University of Plymouth shows more than half of the forests across Europe have been lost over the past 6,000 years