Credit 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 […]
Credit to Author: Nexus Media| Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2022 19:20:50 +0000
Another 54 people died in Pakistan in a 24-hour span earlier this week, bringing the official death toll of the extreme rains and flooding to 1,481. The unprecedented monsoon rains submerged one-third of the country — including much of the nation’s main agricultural region — and left 33 million homeless. Estimates of the total costs […]
Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2022 04:12:00 +0000
While hydropower provides about 16% of global electricity generation today, climate change is predicted to drive various changes in hydrology that could translate into a spectrum of risks for hydropower production. A recent study published in the journal Water estimates 61% of all global hydropower dams will be in basins with very high or extreme […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2022 17:30:47 +0000
Continuously tracking how and why sea level is changing is an important part of informing plans for adaptation. Our ability to monitor and understand the individual factors that contribute to sea level rise allows us to track sea level changes in a way that has never before been possible.
Credit to Author: NRDC| Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2022 09:50:28 +0000
Across the United States, the majority of states lack laws that require flood damages be fully disclosed to home buyers. The consequences can be financially ruinous to those who unwittingly purchase a flood-prone home. States that don’t require disclosure of flood risks, or have inadequate disclosure requirements, hurt those with future flood damages. Why wouldn’t a state […]