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Dual approach needed to save sinking cities and bleaching corals

October 8, 2019 0 Comments Climate, Energy Policy, Environmental Awareness, Environmental Policies, Global Warming, Ocean Policy, Physics, Resource Shortage, Sports Science

Local conservation can boost the climate resilience of coastal ecosystems, species and cities and buy them time in their fight against sea-level rise, ocean acidification and warming temperatures, a study by scientists suggests. In all but extreme situations, these interventions significantly buffer the impacts of climate change and can buy sinking cities and bleaching corals time to adapt until the beneficial impacts of global emissions reductions kick in.

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Costs of natural disasters are increasing at the high end

October 8, 2019 0 Comments Civil Engineering, Disaster Plan, Energy Policy, Global Warming, Natural Disasters, Poverty and Learning, Quantum Physics, STEM Education, Tsunamis

While the economic cost of natural disasters has not increased much on average, averages can be deceptive. The costs of major disasters like hurricanes Katrina, Maria and Dorian or the massive tornado swarms in the Midwest have increased to a disproportionately larger extent than those of lesser events, and these major disasters have become far more expensive, according to an international team of researchers.

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Ancient Maya canals and fields show early and extensive impacts on tropical forests

October 8, 2019 0 Comments Agriculture and Food, Climate, Ecology, Ecology Research, Food and Agriculture, Forest, Global Warming, Nature

New evidence in Belize shows the ancient Maya responded to population and environmental pressures by creating massive agricultural features in wetlands, potentially increasing atmospheric CO2 and methane through burn events and farming, according to geographical research.

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New method gives first global picture of mutual predictability of atmosphere and ocean

October 7, 2019 0 Comments Atmosphere, Climate, Environmental Awareness, Environmental Issues, Geography, Global Warming, Oceanography, Weather

Scientists have carried out a novel statistical analysis to determine for the first time a global picture of how the ocean helps predict the low-level atmosphere and vice versa. They observed ubiquitous influence of the ocean on the atmosphere in the extratropics, which has been difficult to demonstrate with dynamic models of atmospheric and oceanic circulation.

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Early breeding season for some Arctic seabirds due global warming

October 7, 2019 0 Comments Climate, Ecology Research, Endangered Animals, Environmental Awareness, Environmental Issues, Global Warming, Nature, New Species

The breeding season of some seabirds in Arctic regions takes place earlier as a result of the temperature rise caused by climate change, according to a new article.

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Another casualty of climate change? Recreational fishing

October 7, 2019 0 Comments Climate, Environmental Awareness, Fish, Fisheries, Global Warming, Marine Biology, Nature, Weather

Another casualty of climate change will likely be shoreline recreational fishing, according to new research. The study finds some regions of the U.S. may benefit from increasing temperatures, but those benefits will be more than offset by declines in fishing elsewhere.

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Disappearing Peruvian glaciers

October 7, 2019 0 Comments Climate, Drought Research, Floods, Global Warming, Ice Ages, Oceanography, Snow and Avalanches, Water

It is common knowledge that glaciers are melting in most areas across the globe. The speed at which tropical glaciers in the Peruvian Andes are retreating is particularly alarming, however. In the first detailed investigation of all Peruvian mountain ranges, a research team has ascertained a drastic reduction of almost 30 percent in the area covered by glaciers between 2000 and 2016.

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Proximity to paths and roads is a burden for white-tailed sea eagles

October 7, 2019 0 Comments El Nino and La Nina, Endangered Animals, Fish, Fisheries, Geography, Global Warming, Marine Biology, Oceanography

A research team has now measured concentrations of the hormone corticosterone and its metabolic products in white-tailed sea eagles in northern Germany and correlated these values with potential causes of stress. They found that the levels of corticosterone in the birds' urine are higher the closer a breeding pair's nest is to paths or roads.

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Dust in ice cores leads to new knowledge on the advancement of the ice before the ice age

October 4, 2019 0 Comments Ancient DNA, Archaeology, Climate, Early Climate, Evolution, Global Warming, Ice Ages, Snow and Avalanches

Working with the ice core ReCap, drilled close to the coast in East Greenland, researchers wondered why the dust particles from the interglacial period — the warmer period of time between the ice ages — were several times bigger than the dust particles from the ice age. The research led to the invention of a method able to map the advancement of the glaciers in cold periods and the melting in warmer periods.

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How to make carbon pricing palatable to air travelers

October 3, 2019 0 Comments Air Quality, Behavior, Consumer Behavior, Consumerism, Environmental Policies, Forest, Global Warming, Psychology, Retail and Services

Travellers are willing to pay a little more for flights if they know the extra money will be used to address carbon emissions, a new study has found.