Tag: rising temperatures
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Study Reveals How Climate Change Reduces Sleep Quality
When most people think about climate change, they probably don’t consider how it could impact sleep quality. Previously, most research on how climate instability affects human life focused mainly on global economic and societal consequences. Few studies have investigated the effects of climate change on fundamental physiological and behavioral human processes, such as sleep. Many…
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Scotland Saves Their Wild Salmon Population by Planting Trees to Shade Rivers
Wild salmon in Scotland face increasing threats from rising water temperatures due to climate heating. In fact, fisheries scientists have found that remote rivers in Scotland have already become too warm for Atlantic salmon during summertime. In an attempt to protect them, officials have decided to plant trees along the riversides. For instance, fisheries have…
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NASA Reveals 2020 Tied for the Warmest Year Ever Recorded
According to recent research by NASA, 2020 tied with 2016 as the warmest year in Earth’s recorded history. Scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York studied the global average surface temperature for last year. They found that the temperature had risen 1.84 degrees Fahrenheit above the baseline 1951-1980 mean. 2020…