Many insects in Africa are likely to face dangerous levels of heat stress, with serious consequences for ecosystems.
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International standards may require expensive systems like air conditioning to achieve comfort. But low-cost solutions like mud and adobe walls can be effective.
Plants and animals that live in the same community share the same heat tolerance – new study.
A few reefs on the Great Barrier Reef have been largely untouched by bleaching. We found upwellings of cold water are protecting them – for now
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Physical Oceanographer, Australian Institute of Marine Science
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Research Group Leader, physical oceanographer, CSIRO
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Research Fellow in Biological Responses to Climate Change, UCL
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Researcher, University of Portsmouth
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Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Würzburg, at the Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg