Global warming may be speeding up—scientists say the planet is heating nearly twice as fast as before, putting the 1.5°C limit at risk before 2030. Global warming has been speeding up since around 2015, according to a new analysis from the…
Category: Earth
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The Last 10 Years of Climate Data Reveal Something Alarming
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Outdated Flood Maps Put U.S. Property Owners at Risk
How can climate change influence flood insurance? This is what a pair of papers published in npj Natural Hazards and Nature Water hopes to address as a team of researchers led by Arizona State University…
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Even if warming is limited to 2°C, wildfires, storms and beetles may boost Europe forest loss
Forest damage in Europe caused by wildfires, storms and bark beetle outbreaks is projected to increase compared to recent decades under all analyzed climate scenarios, according to a new international study, published in Science, with…
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Multifractal patterns across deep time: What measurement density reveals about Earth's history
Much of our understanding of Earth’s past is derived from stratigraphic records exposed in rock outcrops or recovered from drilled cores. These records span immense time intervals, from thousands to billions of years, and form the basis of…
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Burned permafrost peatlands release carbon for years after wildfires, researchers find
In the face of climate change, permafrost peatland wildfires could play more of a role in the destructive cycle of global warming, University of Alberta research suggests.
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Improved estimates of storm water in sewers could help reduce flooding
Recent University of Toronto Ph.D. graduate Gabrielle Migliato Marega (CivMin) has developed an improved tool for estimating how much water from heavy rains ends up in sanitary sewers. The tool is particularly useful in areas where accurate data…
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Antarctica Has Lost Ice Equal to 10 Los Angeles–Sized Cities in 30 Years
After analyzing three decades of satellite radar data, scientists have created the first continent-wide record of Antarctic grounding line migration. A sweeping 30-year investigation led by glaciologists at the University of California, Irvine…
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Irrigation gaps in weather models could skew air quality forecasts, study finds
Outdoor air pollution is estimated to contribute to more than 100,000 premature deaths in the United States each year, according to the National Weather Service. Accurate air quality forecasts—designed to protect public health, alerting…
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Drill core reveals asynchronous land–ocean responses to ancient ocean anoxia
Earth experienced a period of intense, large-scale volcanism during the early Aptian. Around that time, it also experienced widespread ocean deoxygenation during the Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a (OAE1a) as well as the onset of a period of unusual…
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Satellite study of 2.2 million thunderstorms shows how to predict their formation
People may be frustrated by the lack of detail when weather forecasters say, “There will be thunderstorms popping up, but we don’t know where.” Now a key finding in a study by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH), published in the…
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