Climate change and cultural evolution across the world

CLIMATE CHANGE. Climate change impacts on bumblebees converge across continents.

For many species, geographical ranges are expanding toward the poles in response to climate change, while remaining stable along range edges nearest the equator. Using long-term observations across Europe and North America over 110 years, we tested for climate change-related range shifts in bumblebee species across the full extents of their latitudinal and thermal limits and movements along ele...

The Impact of Climate Change on Yield Potential of Maize across China

Maize is one of the major crops in China and its yield potential has been changedsignificantly by climate change induction during last five decades. The national policy of maizeproduction sufficiency emphasizes the necessity for a more accurate estimation of yieldpotential of maize at a national level. In this paper yield potential of maize was calculated usingthe Global Agro-Ecological Zones (...

Climate Change Could Change Rates of Evolution

When delegates for the United Nations climate change summit met in Mexico in December 2010, they heard the latest reports of rising temperatures, rising tides, shrinking sea ice, and crashing populations of endangered species. With thousands of the planet’s animals and plants facing extinction, predicting how species may— or may not—adapt to rapid changes in their environment is a top priority ...

claudio Latorre , Janet Wilmshurst and Lucien von Gunten CLIMATE CHANGE AND CULTURAL EVOLUTION

Transformative Learning: promoting change across cultural worlds

This paper explores the transformative potential of cultural change in one locale for other cultural worlds, examining how participants in a particular cultural transformation may become influential when positioned as strategic agents in other contexts. A collaborative action research study in teacher education is described, in which mature-age trainee teachers of technology studies (who had pr...