Climate data spat intensifies

Brightness Intensifies * Study

Climate change reduces extent of temperate drylands and intensifies drought in deep soils

Drylands cover 40% of the global terrestrial surface and provide important ecosystem services. While drylands as a whole are expected to increase in extent and aridity in coming decades, temperature and precipitation forecasts vary by latitude and geographic region suggesting different trajectories for tropical, subtropical, and temperate drylands. Uncertainty in the future of tropical and subt...

When emotion intensifies memory interference

Many of our most vivid memories are of emotional events; in research studies, emotional events or items are often more likely to be remembered than neutral events or items. However, as pointed out in this chapter, the same characteristics that make emotional information memorable can also make emotional information more subject to interference effects in memory. Thus, being reminded of some emo...

Climate and climate change data for Albania

Double Trouble: Flu Intensifies Effects of Ozone

volume 117 | number 2 | February 2009 • Environmental Health Perspectives Double Trouble Flu Intensifies Effects of Ozone Environmental health scientists have long speculated that the influenza virus could intensify the pulmonary effects of air pollution or vice versa. Like air pollution, influenza affects primarily the respiratory system, and ambient air pollutants may either lower resistance ...