The pH of ocean waters has decreased by about 0.1 since preindustrial times. Each tenth of a pH point represents a tenfold change in acidity. Living corals begin to die off in acidic waters, and the calcium carbonate shells of mollusks, including some commercial shellfish, become weak, resulting in higher rates of mortality. Thirsty for […]
By arevamirpal::laprimavera26 August 2011 The rest was either blown off to the ocean or landed somewhere else in Japan. Researchers at the National Institute of Environmental Studies (NIES) had their paper published in the electronic version of Geophysical Research Letters published by the American Geophysical Union on August 11, and they announced the result of […]
Relative sea level trends (millimeters/year) along the U.S. East Coast. The rate of annual sea level rise measured at Sewells Point in Norfolk is the highest of all stations along the U.S. East Coast at nearly 4.5 millimeters per year. Trends are shown for Key West, Florida; Mayport, Florida; Charleston, South Carolina; Sewells Point, Virginia; […]
By Lara K. Richards23 August 2011 The sweltering heat and crushing drought have taken North Texas captive, drying up hope for a fall wheat crop. Stan Bevers, management economist and extension professor with Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Vernon, said lack of rainfall coupled with days and days of triple-digit heat have taken […]
By Joe Romm 22 August 2011 Two things we know with extremely high confidence: Recent warming is unprecedented in magnitude and speed and cause (so the temperature history looks like a Hockey Stick). Michael Mann, the lead author on the original Hockey Stick paper, is one of the nation’s top climatologists and a source of […]
“a corpus of maps depicting the amount and localisation of radiation after Fukushima” Created and curated by J-Christophe Plantin J-Christophe Plantin curates this topic from blogs, tweets, videos and much more: find out how! Mapping & participating: Fukushima radiation maps Technorati Tags: Fukushima,Japan,Asia,pollution,infrastructure failure
Caption by Holli Riebeek11 August 2011 More of the United States was in exceptional drought in July 2011 than in any other month in the past 12 years, according to the National Climatic Data Center. The worst of the drought is spread across Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and parts of Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, and Louisiana. […]
Projected stream length of suitable habitat for trout under current conditions and climate change scenarios. Whiskers show 90% confidence intervals for projections. Abstract: Broad-scale studies of climate change effects on freshwater species have focused mainly on temperature, ignoring critical drivers such as flow regime and biotic interactions. We use downscaled outputs from general circulation models […]
By NORIMITSU ONISHI and MARTIN FACKLER8 August 2011 FUKUSHIMA, Japan — The day after a giant tsunami set off the continuing disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, thousands of residents at the nearby town of Namie gathered to evacuate. Given no guidance from Tokyo, town officials led the residents north, believing that winter winds […]
August 10 (NWF) – Populations trends are declining for mule deer and pronghorn antelope herds on both sides of the Colorado-Wyoming border and herds may not be able to fully recover unless federal and state agencies act to protect core habitats, according to a report released today by the National Wildlife Federation. “We are seeing […]
