December 09, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – As California is ravaged by its first wintertime megafire in history, rare snowflakes are falling in Houston- all made possible by a truly extreme weather pattern; it’s difficult to find the words to adequately describe how weird this is. It’s rare that the ...
Read More...December 08, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – The Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI), a mostly volunteer network formed after President Trump’s election, monitors about 25,000 federal web pages each week for changes. They found references to climate change removed from seven federal agencies’ websites, with some of the biggest changes happening on the EPA ...
Read More...December 07, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – A fleet of seven underwater robots will spend a year attempting to map the bottom of a melting ice shelf in Antarctica in order to observe the melting process and help forecast sea level rise. The drones will be sent under the ...
Read More...December 06, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – Rising global temperatures are already affecting the world’s food supply, shifting production of some popular items, like certain kinds of seafood, and raising the price of staples like beef, wheat and coffee. Over the longer term, such trends are likely to alter ...
Read More...December 05, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – A new study says that melting Arctic sea ice could cause high pressure systems that render California vulnerable to a recurrence of the severe drought suffered in recent years. Modeling by the scientists showed that the loss of sea ice could cause a ...
Read More...December 04, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – Scientists have discovered that not all of a glacier’s meltwater drains to the bottom of the ice sheet and out to sea, some of it is retained in porous ice, which may have implications for sea level rise. The Greenland ice sheet ...
Read More...December 02, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – Researchers examined the effects of rising seas on nine southeast US state and found that thousands of archaeological sites, historic buildings, cemeteries, and monuments could be lost. Just a one-meter (three-foot) rise in water levels will destroy 13,000 archaeological sites in the southeast US ...
Read More...December 01, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – Scientists have new evidence indicating El Niño conditions might add extra carbon dioxide to the atmosphere as well as lessen the ability of trees to absorb the greenhouse gas. The El Niño in 2015 and 2016 appears to be the major culprit for ...
Read More...November 30, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – Satellite images of the Bering and Chukchi seas off Alaska and eastern Siberia show the lowest ice extent on record for this time of year. Unusually warm water this summer and strong storms that have broken up existing sea ice, have combined ...
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