Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2024 15:10:05 +0000
Flooding from more powerful storms may make much of the Southern US uninhabitable, leading to massive migrations within the nation.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 14:43:57 +0000
Climate Change is happening and everyone is surprised. And yet we have known it was coming for over 50 years.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2024 11:30:17 +0000
A new map tool from the Union of Concerned Scientists shows you where and when critical pieces of coastal infrastructure such as public housing buildings, schools and power plants are at risk of repeated, disruptive flooding due to climate change-driven sea level rise. The map tool is based on data from our … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2024 17:16:19 +0000
Forecasters expect more frequent and stronger hurricanes along with higher heat related deaths as the storm season kicks off in 2024.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2024 18:59:05 +0000
Fossil fuels continue to dominate our lives even though they are causing harm to our communities. Isn’t it time to stop using them?
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 21:03:24 +0000
Scientists who maintain the world’s temperature records, which date back to 1880, calculate a global temperature anomaly each year to determine how much temperatures have changed compared to temperatures from […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2023 17:25:45 +0000
Record-high river levels stemming from Storm Hans, a storm that battered southern Norway this week, have partially destroyed a dam on the Glåma River and inundated Hafslund Eco’s Braskereidfoss hydroelectric […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2023 03:59:04 +0000
New York City has a lot of concrete, and it’s not located in the desert. As a result, it’s got a problem with flooding, and the problem is only growing. One obvious solution to this problem is to get more soil and greenery in the Big Apple. But where? This is New York City, after […]
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 03:13:51 +0000
Cyclone Gabrielle has been lashing New Zealand with strong winds and heavy rain in mid-February 2023, adding to what has already been an unusually wet start to the year. The latest round of extreme weather brought destructive flooding, storm surge, and landslides to the region. The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the NASA-NOAA […]
Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2022 07:31:50 +0000
Climate change is about extremes and adapting to those extremes. Brisbane experienced a 10-year drought from 2001 to 2011. During that time, washing your car was illegal and hosing down the driveway was punishable by social death. Neighbors dobbed in neighbors as our lawns turned brown and our flower gardens died. We were adapting to […]