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"Fingerprints" Of Melting Ice Caps Point Directly To Global Climate Change And Sea Level Rise
February 22, 2001 — Global climate change is having a direct impact on the Earth's sea level and a group of scientists led by two University of Toronto geophysicists is providing the sea level "fingerprints" ... > full story -
Elephant-Sized Collaboration Can't Yet Budge Physicists' Standard Model
February 20, 2001 — Question: How many physicists does it take to calculate one number? Answer: About 550. That may sound like a lot, but the number may help answer an important question: Why does matter predominate ... > full story -
Storm Surges Increase With Warming Oceans
February 12, 2001 — Ocean warming and thermal expansion will be the largest contributor to sea-level rise during the 21st century, says an Australian scientist. ... > full story -
USGS Develops Faster Method For Estimating Streamflows
January 23, 2001 — Estimating streamflows in areas where there are no gages once took days but now only takes minutes, thanks to scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey, who have developed a user-friendly ... > full story -
Improved Rain Predictions Could Improve Flood Forecasting
January 17, 2001 — Forecasts for heavy rains in the Middle Atlantic region of the U.S. often come too late to predict flooding accurately, but evaluations of past storms with different forecasting methods may improve ... > full story -
Researchers Push Back The Clock On Native Farming History
December 13, 2000 — Archeology and physical geography researchers at the University of Toronto have discovered the earliest evidence yet of agricultural activity in southwestern Ontario dating back 1,400 ... > full story -
University At Buffalo Research Offers First Evidence That Massive Lava Flows Triggered Apocalyptic Climate Changes
November 16, 2000 — A University at Buffalo geologist has shown that it is very likely that huge flood basalt eruptions caused dramatic global-scale climate shifts and mass extinctions, even if lava is erupted ... > full story -
Mountain-Front Reservoirs Control Cycles Of Great Salt Lake
November 13, 2000 — Major cycles in the size and depth of Utah's Great Salt Lake are known from as far back as the 19th century, but now a Penn State researcher suggests an explanation for the seemingly odd behavior ... > full story -
Population And Wealth, More Than Climate, Drive Soaring Costs Of U.S. Flood Damage
October 19, 2000 — Societal changes, much more than increased precipitation, spurred a steep rise in the nation's flood-damage costs over the past century, says a new study. "Climate plays an important but by ... > full story -
New Space Views Of Southeast Asian Floods Aid United Nations Disaster Relief Efforts
October 13, 2000 — Emergency food supplies being rushed to victims of the current flooding in Southeast Asia are being planned with the help of a new type of image from NASA's Terra spacecraft and a unique global ... > full story
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