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April 19, 2024

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Ice Age Climate Analysis Reduces Worst-Case Warming Expected from Rising CO2

Apr. 17, 2024 — A detailed reconstruction of climate during the most recent ice age, when a large swath of North America was covered in ice, provides information on the relationship between CO2 and global ...

38 Trillion Dollars in Damages Each Year: World Economy Already Committed to Income Reduction of 19 % Due to Climate Change

Apr. 17, 2024 — Even if CO2 emissions were to be drastically cut down starting today, the world economy is already committed to an income reduction of 19% until 2050 due to climate change, a new study finds. These ...

Paradox of Extreme Cold Events in a Warming World

Apr. 17, 2024 — The Warm Arctic-Cold Continent (WACC) phenomenon is the puzzling combination of Arctic warming and extreme coldness in specific mid-latitude regions. However, the progression of WACC events remains unclear amidst global warming. Scientists have now ...

CO2 Worsens Wildfires by Helping Plants Grow

Apr. 16, 2024 — By fueling the growth of plants that become kindling, carbon dioxide is driving an increase in the severity and frequency of wildfires, according to a new ...

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East Coast Mussel Shells Are Becoming More Porous in Warming Waters

Apr. 17, 2024 — Researchers have found that over the last 120 years, the porosity -- or small-scale holes -- in mussel shells along the East Coast of the United States has increased, potentially due to warming ...

Yellowstone Lake Ice Cover Unchanged Despite Warming Climate

Apr. 16, 2024 — While most lakes around the world are experiencing shorter durations of ice cover, the length of time that Yellowstone Lake is covered by ice each year has not changed in the past century, possibly ...

Food Security in Developed Countries Shows Resilience to Climate Change

Apr. 11, 2024 — A study has found that market forces have provided good food price stability over the past half century, despite extreme weather ...

Scientist Helps Link Climate Change to Madagascar's Megadrought

Apr. 9, 2024 — A team reveals a clear link between human-driven climate change and the years-long drought currently gripping southern ...

Research Examines Tweets During Hurricane María to Analyze Social Media Use During Disasters

Apr. 9, 2024 — Understanding how social media is used during a disaster can help with disaster preparedness and recovery for future ...

How Climate Change Will Impact Food Production and Financial Institutions

Apr. 8, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new method to predict the financial impacts climate change will have on agriculture, which can help support food security and financial stability for countries ...

Tracing the Largest Solar Storm in Modern Times from Tree Rings in Lapland

Apr. 4, 2024 — A research group was able to measure a spike in radiocarbon concentration of trees in Lapland that occurred after the Carrington flare. This discovery helps to prepare for dangerous solar ...

Fans Are Not a Magic Bullet for Beating the Heat!

Apr. 4, 2024 — A new study throws cold water on the idea that fans can effectively cool you down during extremely hot weather ...

Experiencing Extreme Weather Predicts Support for Policies to Mitigate Effects of Climate Change

Apr. 3, 2024 — Most Americans report having personally experienced the effects of extreme weather, according to new survey data. An analysis finds that a reported ...

eDNA Methods Give a Real-Time Look at Coral Reef Health

Apr. 5, 2024 — The study underscores the crucial role of microbes in maintaining coral reef health, akin to the human gut microbiome. Hurricanes and disease outbreaks affect coral reef water microbial communities, ...

Australia on Track for Unprecedented, Decades-Long Megadroughts

Apr. 2, 2024 — Australia could soon see megadroughts that last for more than 20 years, according to new modelling. The researchers' bleak findings are before factoring in human impact on the climate since the ...

Simple Equations Clarify Cloud Climate Conundrum

Apr. 1, 2024 — New analysis based on simple equations has reduced uncertainty about how clouds will affect future climate ...

How Extratropical Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions Can Contribute to the Variability of Jet Streams in the Northern Hemisphere

Mar. 29, 2024 — Ocean-atmosphere coupling, the exchange in energy between the ocean and atmosphere, influences teleconnection patterns, the climate effects across vast geographical areas. However, its impact outside ...

Artificial Reef Designed by MIT Engineers Could Protect Marine Life, Reduce Storm Damage

Mar. 27, 2024 — Engineers designed an 'architected' reef that can mimic the wave-buffering effects of natural reefs while providing pockets for marine life. The sustainable and cost-saving structure could ...

Severe Hurricanes Boost Influx of Juveniles and Gene Flow in a Coral Reef Sponge

Mar. 26, 2024 — A study is the first to evaluate substrate recolonization by sponges in the U.S. Virgin Islands after two catastrophic storms using genetic analyses to understand how much clonality verses sexual ...

Unintended Consequences of Fire Suppression

Mar. 25, 2024 — A new study reveals how fire suppression ensures that wildfires will burn under extreme conditions at high severity, exacerbating the impacts of climate change and fuel ...

A New Way to Quantify Climate Change Impacts: 'Outdoor Days'

Mar. 21, 2024 — 'Outdoor days,' a new measure, describes climate change impacts by noting the number of days per year that outdoor temperatures are comfortable enough for normal outdoor ...

Satellite Data Assimilation Improves Forecasts of Severe Weather

Mar. 21, 2024 — In 2020, a line of severe thunderstorms unleashed powerful winds that caused billions in damages across the Midwest United States. A new technique that incorporates satellite data could improve ...

The Heat Index -- How Hot It Really Feels -- Is Rising Faster Than Temperature

Mar. 20, 2024 — Researchers showed in 2022 that heat index calculations by NOAA based on analyses from the 1970s don't adequately reflect the heat stress humans feel during the extremes of heat and humidity ...

Self-Heating Concrete Is One Step Closer to Putting Snow Shovels and Salt out of Business

Mar. 18, 2024 — Researchers recently reported on the science behind its special concrete, that can warm itself up when it snows, or as temperatures approach ...

Meteorology: Weak Polar Vortex Makes Weather More Predictable

Mar. 15, 2024 — Events in the stratosphere are making long-range weather in Northern Europe easier to forecast, researchers have ...

Diverse Habitats Help Salmon Weather Unpredictable Climate Changes

Mar. 14, 2024 — Restored salmon habitat should resemble financial portfolios, offering fish diverse options for feeding and survival so that they can weather various conditions as the climate changes, a new study ...

Tropical Birds Could Tolerate Warming Better Than Expected, Study Suggests

Mar. 14, 2024 — We expect tropical animals to handle a certain degree of heat, but not wild swings in temperature. That seems to be true for tropical ectotherms, or 'cold-blooded' animals such as ...

Ready for the Storm: Researchers Analyze Infrastructure, Demographics to See Where Tornadoes Are Most Disruptive

Mar. 13, 2024 — Researchers examined demographics, infrastructure and more than seven decades of weather data to determine which places in Kentucky are most vulnerable to ...

Drought, Soil Desiccation Cracking, and Carbon Dioxide Emissions: An Overlooked Feedback Loop Exacerbating Climate Change

Mar. 13, 2024 — Soil stores 80 percent of carbon on earth, yet with increasing cycles of drought, that crucial reservoir is cracking and breaking down, releasing even more greenhouse gases creating an amplified ...

Summer Solstice Triggers Synchronized Beech Tree Reproduction Across Europe

Mar. 13, 2024 — A new study has found that the summer solstice acts as a 'starting gun' to synchronize beech tree reproduction across vast distances in Europe, affecting ecosystem ...

History Repeats as Coral Bay Faces Mass Loss of Coral and Fish Life

Mar. 12, 2024 — A perfect storm of environmental factors has seen a monumental loss of fish and coral life at a popular area of Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia's Gascoyne region -- however research into the ...

India's Water Problems Set to Get Worse as the World Warms

Mar. 11, 2024 — Winter storms known as western disturbances that provide crucial snow and rainfall to northern India are arriving significantly later in the ...

Study Explores Impacts of Arctic Warming on Daily Weather Patterns in the U.S.

Mar. 11, 2024 — Arctic sea ice is shrinking as the world continues to warm, and a new study may provide a better understanding of how the loss of this ice may impact daily weather in the middle latitudes, like the ...

Rock Weathering and Climate: Low-Relief Mountain Ranges Are Largest Carbon Sinks

Mar. 7, 2024 — For many hundreds of millions of years, the average temperature at the surface of the Earth has varied by not much more than 20 degrees Celsius, facilitating life on our planet. To maintain such ...