Every day for decades, NASA satellites have been collecting data about oceans and continents around the world, data that California State University, Northridge environmental geographer Mario Giraldo said will provide valuable information about how climate change is impacting Southern California.
California State University, Northridge marine biologist Peter Edmunds has been able demonstrate, with data meticulously collected over nearly 40 years along the coral reefs off St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands, that those “acute” events, combined with the “thousand cuts” caused by rising ocean temperatures are damaging the marine ecosystems that once helped corals thrived.
A team of researchers led by California State University, Northridge evolutionary biologist Jeremy Yoder partnered with hundreds of volunteer naturalists to reconstruct how 120 years of climate change has affected Joshua trees.
Drought. Devastating fires and floods. Rising temperatures. Deadly heatwaves and cold spells. The extinction of an increasing number of plant and animal species. Climate…
California State University, Northridge biology professor Robert Espinoza is fascinated by the thermal biology of reptiles and how temperature affects them. Reptiles rely on…
Dozens of large wildfires are raging across the United States, mostly in the West, burning more than 2 million acres and sending plumes of…