Smoke from a 2019 Northern California wildfire could be seen by astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Research by scientists from UCLA and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory strengthens the case that climate change has been the main cause of the growing amount of land in the western U.S. that has been destroyed by large wildfires over the past two decades. Rong Fu, a UCLA professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences and the study's corresponding author, said the trend is likely to worsen in the years ahead. "I am afraid that the record fire seasons in recent years are only the beginning of what will come, due to climate change, and our society is not prepared for the rapid increase of weather contributing to wildfires in the American West." The dramatic increase in destruction caused by wildfires is borne out by U.S. Geological Survey data.

Eighty-five percent of the world's population lives in areas impacted by human-induced climate change, according to an international team of researchers. They used a new machine learning approach to identify more than 100,000 scientific studies on the effects of climate change across every continent. This massive literature review created a global map of impacts, which the team then compared to changing trends of surface temperature and rain caused by humans. In the age of big data, using AI is an important tool for climate scientists, the researchers say. While it can't substitute for expert assessments like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC), using machine learning to sort through climate studies is invaluable to helping map evidence in a systematic way.

Artificial intelligence has made a disheartening discovery – 85 percent of the world's population has already been affected by human-induced climate change. The findings were made by German scientists, led by Max Callaghan from the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, who, according to the study, trained the system to'identify, evaluate and summarize scientific publications on climate change and its consequences.' Researchers used machine learning to sift through data published from 1951 through 2018 and found more than 100,000 studies with evidence that shows 80 percent of Earth's inhabited land has been impacted by climate change. The results also uncovered an'attribution gap' around the globe, where evidence is is distributed unequally across countries - 'evidence for potentially attributable impacts are twice as prevalent in high-income than in low-income countries,' according to the study. Artificial intelligence has made a disheartening discovery – 85 percent of the world's population has already been affected by human-induced climate change.

Does the cold make dragons smarter? A new study suggests it does. When researchers put bearded dragons eggs in incubated, colder environments, they found that they were better at solving cognitive tasks as adults than than those incubated at warmer temperatures. Specifically, bearded dragons incubated at colder temperatures picked up new skills faster than their counterparts incubated at hotter temperatures. The findings could provide new insights into how animals may react and adapt to human-induced climate change.