Bu Gina-Marie Cheeseman, Triple Pundit27 August 2012 Call him one of the bravest weathercasters in the country. Broadcasting in South Carolina, a red state for sure, Jim Gandy is not afraid to link extreme weather events and patterns with climate change. Gandy does a segment called Climate Matters, a segment that Grist describes as placing […]
Caption by Adam Voiland20 August 2012 For more than a decade, scientists have used data from instruments on NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites to map the locations of wildfires. Now researchers have another tool for observing fires around the world. The Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite (S-NPP) carries an instrument so sensitive to low light […]
By Michael Walsh, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS 26 August 2012 (New York Daily News) – Ignited by lightning strikes two months ago, a massive fire rages in Alaska and shrouds the surrounding area beneath a dark blanket of smoke. The Dry Creek Fire has ravished over 42,000 acres near the Tanana River. Ominous clouds of […]
Tokyo (CNN) – A massive typhoon began to make landfall Sunday over Okinawa, bringing winds more ferocious than even the typhoon-weary Japanese island has seen in decades. It will likely be the strongest since 1956, said CNN International meteorologist Tom Sater. With a cloud field of 2,000 kilometers (1,250 miles), Typhoon Bolaven is 20 times […]
Wildfires in California, Oregon, Idaho, and Nevada sent smoke over large stretches of the United States in mid-August 2012. Particularly thick smoke collected over Wyoming on August 14, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this natural-color image. Smoke filled the skies over most of the state; over the south-central […]
By John Kraft 25 August 2012 Super Typhoon Bolaven now has sustained winds of 146 mph and gusts to 188 mph. It is expected to hammer down on the small island of Okinawa, Japan where 7 U.S. military installations have almost 50,000 military, family members, civilians and contractors await the impending storm. The center of […]
Media ContactsNAU Office of Public Affairs: opaffairs@nau.edu or +1 928.523.2282 Christopher Schwalm: +1 928.523.8413NSIDC Press Office: natasha.vizcarra@nsidc.org or +1 303.492.149730 July 2012 A new scientific study indicates the turn-of-the-century drought in the North American West was the worst of the last millennium—with major impacts to the carbon cycle and hints of even drier times ahead. […]
By Robert Bradfield, with photojournalist Jason Thomason13 August 2012 MAYFIELD, Kentucky – At Mayfield’s United Livestock Commodities, owner Joseph Watson is tweaking the recipe for success. “Just to be able to survive, we have to look at other sources for nutrition,” he said. His 1,400 cattle are no longer feeding off corn. The prices, Watson […]
By Jim Suhr, AP Business Writer23 August 2012 ST. LOUIS (AP) – While other corn growers already have knocked down their drought-ravaged crops to feed them to livestock, Nebraska farmer Doug Nelson still waits for his maize to mature, well aware it won’t be a banner year. On the day a new report suggested the […]
By John Vidal, environment editor, www.guardian.co.uk23 August 2012 Arctic sea ice is set to reach its lowest ever recorded extent as early as this weekend, in “dramatic changes” signalling that man-made global warming is having a major impact on the polar region. With the melt happening at an unprecedented rate of more than 100,000 sq […]
