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HYPERLINK "" \t "_blank" World's Hard Fought Battle Against Climate ChangeInter Press Service, 9/23/2019UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres describes the ongoing crisis as a "climate emergency" - as the world continues its hard fought battle against devastating droughts, floods, hurricanes and rising sea levels that threaten the very existence of small island developing states located in low-lying areas... Asked whether the current state affairs was due to lack of political will or decline in development aid,?Dr. Pamela McElwee, Associate Professor, Department of Human Ecology School of Environmental and Biological Sciences at Rutgers University, told IPS the Global Assessment points out that political will for biodiversity is needed at multiple scales. "Certainly, international meetings and conventions are important, but so too are the local everyday actions of millions of consumers, voters and citizens."Fish are in trouble with the climate crisis, IPCC report findsCNN, 9/25/2019"The key take away from this report is that fish in the ocean are the proverbial canary in the coal mine for climate impacts," said?Malin Pinsky, an ecologist who studies marine communities, who was not involved in the IPCC report. He is an associate professor at?Rutgers. "This new report is a key step in helping everyone, including policymakers, understand exactly what could happen."Soils could be affected by climate changeMorning Ag Clips, 9/25/2019"Since rainfall patterns and other environmental conditions are shifting globally as a result of climate change, our results suggest that how water interacts with soil could change appreciably in many parts of the world, and do so fairly rapidly," said co-author?Daniel Giménez, a soil scientist and professor in the?Department of Environmental Sciences?at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. "We propose that the direction, magnitude and rate of the changes should be measured and incorporated into predictions of ecosystem responses to climate change."Does climate change make predicting the weather more difficultMPR News, 9/26/2019Mary Dow-Bunnell of Cottage Grove asked: How is climate change affecting meteorologists' ability to accurately predict the weather? "There is evidence that climate change is affecting jet-stream patterns," said MPR's chief meteorologist Paul Huttner. "Jennifer Francis at Rutgers University?is one of the premier authors of a theory called arctic amplification, and here's how it works: Basically the poles are warming more rapidly than the equator, and it's that difference in temperature that drives jet streams. So, that makes a slower, more erratic jet stream - a loopier jet stream. It can mean slower, wetter storms and quicker, more intense droughts, and that can be more difficult for meteorologists to forecast."Rutgers-led projects awarded $16 million in NOAA Sea grantsMorning Ag Clips, 9/26/2019NOAA Sea Grant announced $16 million in federal funding awards to support 42 research projects and collaborative programs aimed at advancing sustainable aquaculture in the United States. Rutgers scientists are among those serving as principal investigators of three of the 42 projects. Rutgers scientists?David Bushek, professor and director of?Rutgers Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory?(HSRL) and?Michael De Luca, director of the?Rutgers Aquaculture Innovation Center, are the lead principal investigators on two projects, while?Ximing Guo, distinguished professor and shellfish geneticist at HSRL, is a co-principal investigator on a third project.Joachim Messing, 73, Who Charted the DNA of Viruses and Plants, DiesThe New York Times, 9/27/2019Joachim Messing, a pioneer of DNA sequencing whose techniques enabled scientists to study the building blocks of viruses, improve the yield of crop plants and understand the development of cancer in humans, died on Sept. 13 at his home in Somerset, N.J. He was 73.NJ universities launching sea robots to learn about hurricanesNJ101.5, 9/30/2019Underwater robot gliders are measuring air and sea interaction during hurricanes in the mid-Atlantic region. The little yellow submarines are part of a collaborative effort between Rutgers and Monmouth universities.?Rutgers?marine and coastal sciences expert?Travis Miles?says these 6-foot long gliders safely collect temperature data. "Ahead of a storm, you don't want to be on a boat collecting data," he said. "We don't want to send our students out or our employees out to do that work. The robots can go to sea and actually do very very well while they're out there."Is theory on Earth's climate in the last 15 million years wrong?Morning Ag Clips, 9/30/2019A key theory that attributes the climate evolution of the earth to the breakdown of Himalayan rocks may not explain the cooling over the past 15 million years, according to a Rutgers-led study. The study in the journal Nature Geoscience could shed more light on the causes of long-term climate change. It centers on the long-term cooling that occurred before the recent global warming tied to greenhouse gas emissions from humanity. "The findings of our study, if substantiated, raise more questions than they answered," said senior author?Yair Rosenthal, a distinguished professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. "If the cooling is not due to enhanced Himalayan rock weathering, then what processes have been overlooked?"New AI method could boost Crohn's Disease insight and improve treatmentNJBIZ, 9/30/2019Scientists have developed a computer method that may help improve understanding and treatment of Crohn's disease, which causes inflammation of the digestive tract. The Rutgers-led study, published in the journal Genome Medicine, used artificial intelligence to examine genetic signatures of Crohn's in 111 people... "Our method is not a clinical diagnosis tool, but it generates interesting observations that need to be followed up," said senior author?Yana Bromberg, an associate professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology at Rutgers University-New Brunswick.'Flash drought' forces officials to ban fires in six counties in NJ HighlandsNJTV News, 9/30/2019State fire officials have imposed a ban on fires in six counties in the New Jersey Highlands in the wake of a sudden dry spell that's left woodlands choked with dried fuel from trees and bushes that grew thick during the rains that prevailed earlier this year...The problem with the sudden dryness is made worse by a warming climate, according to?state climatologist David Robinson. "It was the fifth-warmest summer in 125 years, and September's going to come in around the 10th warmest," said Robinson, who's also a professor at Rutgers.We invite you to send an email to?InTheNews@aesop.rutgers.edu?alerting us when you are quoted in a story or if your program is mentioned in the news. Please send links of news,?as it happens, as some media outlets do not retain online links beyond a week.Visit the newly redesigned SEBS and NJAES Newsroom at?sebsnjaesnews.rutgers.edu. ................
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