January 18, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: NASA.Article Synopsis – Researchers at NASA and NOAA announced that 2019 was the second hottest year on record and the last decade was the hottest ever recorded. Temperatures in 2019 were almost “1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than the average from the ...
Read More...January 17, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: pardiblog24/pixabay.Article Synopsis – Betet Island and Gundul Island, two of Indonesia’s Unesco islands in South Sumatra, have been submerged by sea level rise. Neither island is inhabited by people, but Berbak-Sembilang National Park is home to kingfishers and the Sumatran tiger. To read the ...
Read More...January 16, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: Mariamichelle/pixabay.Article Synopsis – A new report has predicted that home values in parts of Florida will drop by up to 15% in the next ten years and 35% by 2050 due to sea level rise. With plummeting home values, “property tax revenue for communities ...
Read More...January 15, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – A new study has shown that “the world’s oceans are now heating at the same rate as if five Hiroshima atomic bombs were dropped into the water every second”. The last five years were the hottest ever recorded in the oceans, and the warming ...
Read More...January 14, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: Charly W. Karl/Flickr.Article Synopsis – A United Nations panel has ruled that refugees fleeing from the climate crisis “cannot be forced to return home by their adoptive countries”. This decision could “open the door to a flood of legal claims by displaced people around ...
Read More...January 13, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: Jasmine Färling.Article Synopsis – Human impacts from overfishing, chemical and plastic pollution, recreation, and climate change have pushed the oceans and their inhabitants to the brink of collapse. Ninety percent of the world’s fisheries are at or over their limits; large species like dolphins, ...
Read More...January 11, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: © Provided by Space.Article Synopsis – A joint U.S.-European mission will launch two satellites to study sea level rise including changes in ocean circulation, climate variability, weather patterns, and storms. The satellites will be able to gather data on “large ocean features like El ...
Read More...January 10, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: Paul Kuroda/Zuma Press/Newscom.Article Synopsis – “The Trump administration’s latest National Preparedness Report, which describes the greatest threats and hazards to the country, says nothing about climate change, drought or sea-level rise. The preparedness report, written by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, is one of ...
Read More...January 09, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: Anastasia Sogodogo/USAID.Article Synopsis – New research finds that “solar geoengineering—the intentional reflection of sunlight away from the Earth’s surface—may reduce income inequality between countries”. According to the study, “if temperatures cooled there would be gains in GDP per capita. For some models, these gains ...
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