Read aloud the first three paragraphs from January's "Heat, Flood or Icy Cold, Extreme Weather Rages Worldwide," (or if it is too advanced, just summarize it).
Different sets of genes have been identified that activate against various abiotic stresses, including heat, flood, drought, cold, and intense light (Kreps et al. 2002; Seki et al. 2002; Rizhsky et al. 2004).
The unprepared will be struggling with heat, floods, water shortages and much more.
Climate change will likely increase the number of people suffering from illness and injury due to more pollution, extreme heat, floods, storms, droughts and fires as well as allergies and infectious disease.
One approach to initiate necessary changes in planning practices towards one that considers the changing climate might be to concentrate on services already associated with the highly visible, direct, and readily observable impacts such as heat, flooding, bushfire, and storms.
D. purpurea tolerates many environmental stresses, such as cold, drought, heat, flooding, full sun and poor soil, although it prefers rich and well-drained acidic soils and half shade and moist environments.
Trees must compete every second for "water, nutrients, light and space; and to fend off cold, heat, drought, flood, toxicity and the host of parasites and predators of all conceivable kinds," he writes.
Plants display complex phenotypic and physiological responses to heat and flood stresses.
To investigate responses to heat, cold, flood and drought stress, Arabidopsis plants were germinated and grown in soil.
Here we show that exposure of Arabidopsis plants to stresses, including salt, UVC, cold, heat and flood, resulted in a higher HRF, increased global genome methylation, and higher tolerance to stress in the untreated progeny.
Some vacation home services use heat monitors, flood detectors and security cameras to ensure the homes are monitored sufficiently.
