June 19, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – A wave of lawsuits have been filed against Exxon and other major polluters in the last year “alleging that the companies had purposefully misled the public about the effects of climate change in order to keep profits high”, and now those companies ...
Read More...June 18, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – A new study finds that the ground underneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet region is rising at a rate of more than 4 cm per year, which could help keep ice floes in place and slow the melting that contributes to sea level ...
Read More...June 16, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – A team of scientists from Harvard University and the company Carbon Engineering announced that they have found a method to cheaply and directly pull carbon-dioxide pollution out of the atmosphere, possibly providing a solution for climate change. The technique has already been implemented at a ...
Read More...June 15, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – According to a new NOAA report, 2017 was a record-breaking year for flooding, and that trend is expected to continue in 2018. The report predicts there will be 60 percent more high-tide floods this year than at the start of the century. “Due to ...
Read More...June 14, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – New research that compared growth rates of coral reefs with predicted rates of sea level rise found that many reefs will not be able to keep up with the rising seas. Their “growth is now being hampered by combinations of coral disease, deteriorating ...
Read More...June 13, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – A new study has found that there has been “a six-fold increase in annual land ice contribution to global sea level rise from the mid-1990s to the early 2010s”. During most of the 20th century it was melting glaciers and ice caps that contributed ...
Read More...June 12, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – Researchers looking at how sea level rise will impact drinking water wells in Miami-Dade and Broward counties in the next 20 years have found that the freshwater wells in Broward are the most vulnerable. “County maps show saltwater has intruded underground past the ...
Read More...June 11, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – New research has shown that “the rate at which Antarctica is losing ice has tripled since 2007, and is now melting so fast that it will contribute six inches (15 centimeters) to sea-level rise by 2100. That is at the upper end of what ...
Read More...June 09, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – A new study using mathematical models has tried to answer the question of how climate change affects the sustainability of a civilization, and found it to be catastrophic in all but one scenario. In the first scenario, the “die-off”, as global temperatures ...
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