Scientoon on "Decreases in global beer supply due to Climate Change"
Beer, the most popular alcoholic beverage in the world by volume consumed, decline sharply in periods of extreme drought and heat. The study lead by Xie from China Center for Agricultural Policy, School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China with their co-authors studied the effect of climate change on beer production. Although not the most concerning the impact of future climate change, climate-related weather extremes may threaten the availability and economic accessibility of beer.
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Reference: Xie et al (2018), Decreases in global beer supply due to extreme drought and heat, Nature Plants (2018). DOI: 10.1038/s41477-018-0263-1
Science Cartoon "Climate Change Can Cause Animals to Switch Sex"
A team of ecologists lead by Professor Arthur Georges
has proven that temperature, not just genetics, plays a role in
determining the sex of Australian bearded dragons. Their findings were
published today in the journal Nature.
In humans, XX chromosome is found in women and XY in men. It is an
established fact. Similarly for Australian lizards a ZZ/ZW system of
chromosomal sex determination. A ZZ is male and a ZW is female. Prof.
George and his team collected 131 samples of Australian lizards and
found that 11 out of 131 samples collected were genetically male but
anatomically female. Further, they found that they could reproduce and
often became supermoms within their population. It means genetically
male is behaving like anatomical mother. Such kind of mess up is
credited to account of global warming. Whether it will be useful in
terms of sustainability, adaptability and evolution are unknown.
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