As seas get warmer, tropical species are moving further from the equator: As sea turtles move away from the tropics, they're overeating seagrass meadows. Laura Dts / shutterstock Climate change is causing tropical species in the ocean to move from the equator towards the poles, while temperate species recede. This mass movement of marine life, …
Warmer summers threaten Antarctica’s giant ice shelves because of the lakes they create: Layered ice sheets can be vulnerable to fracturing. Eli Duke/Flickr, CC BY-NC During the Antarctic summer, air temperatures get warm enough to melt snow and ice on the surface of the great ice sheets that make up around 99% of Antarctica. This …
What a warmer, wetter world means for insects, and for what they eat: Protasov AN/Shutterstock A new report has been released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the UN’s authority on climate change – which revealed the latest research on how the Earth is changing and what those changes will mean for …
Why we can’t tell if warmer weather slows down the spread of coronavirus: Many people believe that warm weather protects us from respiratory illnesses such as COVID-19. The concept of “catching a cold” in summer is counter-intuitive. Yet what does the data say about the effect of the weather on the spread of the coronavirus? …
Arctic heatwave: what warmer summers mean for the region’s wildlife: Snowshoe hares are moving further into the Arctic. Dee Carpenter Originals / shutterstock The current heatwave in the Arctic, with temperatures reaching 38? in some parts of northern Siberia, is symptomatic of a region experiencing more than twice the global average rate of warming. For …
How the warmer weather affects the air around us: Change is in the air. Most people anticipate the end of winter with the eagerness of a Springbok racing to the tryline. The end of the sniffle season is warmly welcomed, but is the change of season all that good for us? Surprisingly, spring is not …
Dullest and wettest June for five years, warmer than usual: This is a little more than half the long-term average number of hours of strong June sunshine at Armagh, and two-thirds of the most recent 30-year June average. Total precipitation was 77.85 mm including 7 trace values, that is, 77.5 mm if trace values are …