Search

...humans manage to survive there. It looks at the adaptations to physiological proceses, the environmental effects on diet, activity and fecundity, and contrasts the strategies of aquatic and land-based animals in surviving in this extreme habitat...The extreme challenges of life in the polar regions require the animals who make their habitat there to make many adaptations....

...humans go on burning fossil fuels at an ever-increasing rate, heatwave temperatures could reach an intolerable 55°C in many parts of the globe, including some parts of continental Europe. A second study warns that by the century’s end weather-related disasters – floods, heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and windstorms – could claim a 50-fold increase in fatalities,...

...human activities such as greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, the energy industry and motor transport. The countries of the tropics will be among the first to be affected. Already, there is evidence that tropical countries are beginning to suffer declining agricultural productivity through the drying of soils. Bangladesh has long suffered from extreme weather, but...