Topic: global warming impact
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Study: El Niño Strongest in 1,000 Years
Recent research identifies the current El Niño event as the most powerful in at least a millennium, highlighting a significant shift in global climate patterns. This phenomenon alters worldwide weather systems by causing severe flooding and droughts while operating against a backdrop of rising gl...
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Expanding mosquito ranges call for better disease monitoring
As climate change creates warmer, wetter conditions, mosquitoes like the Asian tiger mosquito are expanding their geographic ranges into historically cooler regions such as New England, bringing diseases like dengue and Zika virus with them. A mosquito monitoring program in Connecticut has identi...
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Alternative Rock Could Clean Up Cement Emissions
Cement production accounts for 8% of global CO₂ emissions, with direct process emissions from limestone conversion exceeding those from fuel combustion. A new study in "Communications Sustainability" proposes eliminating these emissions by replacing limestone with silicate rocks like basalt as a ...
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