Weather / Climate

US Cities are at Risk for Coastal Flooding

U.S. Cities are at Risk for Coastal Flooding

There are five US cities that are at risk of flooding due to rising sea levels.  They are Miami, Tampa, Boston, New York City, and New Orleans. Miami’s flooding risk comes not only from the high tides but from the ...
Group of penguins gathered on a rocky shoreline with icebergs in the background.

Penguins Relocate as Ice Melts and Plants Spread

Penguins Relocate, resulting in many other geological changes. The Antarctic Peninsula, one of the fastest-warming regions on Earth, is experiencing significant environmental changes due to rising temperatures. As the ice retreats, both the physical landscape and the region’s delicate ecosystems ...
Sea-level Rise From Antarctica Ice Sheet Melts

Sea-level Rise From Antarctica Ice Sheet Melts

Antarctica and Greenland are shedding their ice sheets at record rates.  The warming of the ocean waters is essentially causing the ice sheets to self-destruct and start to collapse.  With this ice melting the sea levels may rise to about ...
Effects of climate change on coral reefs

Effects of climate change on coral reefs and shellfish

The newest professor in the University of Rhode Island's College of the Environment and Life Sciences, Hollie Putnam, thinks some corals and shellfish might have good enough "memories" to buffer the changes in ocean chemistry that are resulting from the ...
Craig Russell Predicted Arctic Event Affecting Larsen C Ice Shelf

Craig Russell, Canadian Novelist Predicts Arctic Event

In 2016, a Canadian novelist, Craig Russell — who is also a lawyer and a theater director in Manitoba — wrote an environmental cli-fi thriller titled “Fragment” about a major calving event along the ice shelf of Antarctica. The Yale ...
Uncontrolled wildfires ravage the Arctic

Record-Breaking Heatwave Causes Intense Arctic wildfires

More than 100 intense Arctic wildfires have ravaged the Arctic since June, with scientists describing them as "unprecedented." Satellite images show huge clouds of smoke billowing across uninhabited Arctic land in Greenland, Siberia and parts of Alaska. The wildfires come ...

Water Flow returned to Mexican Part of Colorado River

2013 - Colorado River Delta, Mexico: Water began flowing in the Mexican part of the Colorado River for the first time in decades. Dams, including the Hoover Dam and the Morelos Dam, usually keep most of the river’s water in ...
Climate Change – Extinction on the Rise

Climate Change – Extinction on the Rise

A report from the United Nations has stated that the ecosystem is in risk of extinction due to what the humans are doing to the planet.  Climate Change is causing the earth to warm up to where the plants and ...

Global fossil-fuel emissions predicted to decline for 2015

Annual global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels could drop slightly in 2015, according to a report from the Global Carbon Project led by a Stanford University researcher. This surprising result contrasts with the rapid growth in emissions before 2014, ...

Warmer seas speed up Antarctic ice melt

European researchers have once again warned that the thinning of the Antarctic ice shelf means that the flow of glaciers on the frozen continent could accelerate, with a consequent rise in sea levels. They examine, in two separate studies, the ...