To analyse the new material, researchers at the University of Queensland's Global Change Institute are using image recognition software to identify the creatures recorded in the photographs, and 3D-modelling programmes to monitor how the habitats change over time.

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In a recent study, the U.S. Joint Global Climate Change Research Institute, which is located at the University of Maryland, projected the impact of climate change on agricultural yields in Huang-Hai Plain, which is one of the most productive agricultural regions of China.

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D. level climate scientists that work at Columbia University's Earth Institute and even if you do not understand the physics of climate change or the computer models predicting global warming, common sense alone might lead you to think that human beings and their machines are making the planet warmer.

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