New York Launches $19.5 Billion Climate Resiliency Plan
Underlying the portfolio of measures, which amount to the largest climate resilience program of any city worldwide, Bloomberg said, are a recognition that climate change is increasing the risks of damaging storm surge events in New York by increasing sea levels, and that climate change is also likely to worsen heat waves, heavy precipitation events… Read More
NOAA Satellite Back Online After ‘Micrometeoroid’ Strike
According to a NOAA press release, engineers were finally able to pinpoint why the satellite, known as GOES-13, had a sudden disruption in its orientation toward Earth on May 22. NOAA said Monday that a micrometeoroid, possibly from debris left over from other space missions, or “space junk,” likely hit the arm for the satellite’s solar array panel… Read More
Coral Fights Back Gradually From Ocean Heating
Marine biologists’ worst fears seem to be confirmed: coral colonies take a long time to recover from catastrophic climate events. British and Brazilian biologists report in the Public Library of Science One – better known simply as PLoS One – that the richest habitats of the sea could also be among the most vulnerable to climate change. For more … Read More
Study Finds Plant Growth Surges as CO2 Levels Rise
Australian scientists have solved one piece of the climate puzzle. They have confirmed the long-debated fertilization effect. Plants build their tissues by using photosynthesis to take carbon from the air around them. So more carbon dioxide should mean more vigorous plant growth – though until now this has been very difficult to prove. Randall Don… Read More
Squid Threatened by Ocean Acidity Caused by Rise in CO2
That jet-propelled cephalopod of the seas, the squid, could be in for a hard time. As atmospheric carbon dioxide levels rise, so the oceans become more acid, and this is not good news for one of the most important animals of the ocean ecosystem. Aran Mooney of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the U.S. and other colleagues decided to take… Read More
Tropical Storm Andrea Pelts Florida; Threatens Flooding
The storm is raising concerns of significant flooding in Florida due to heavy rainfall amounts approaching 8 inches or more in some areas. This rain comes on top of heavy rain that fell during the month of May, when West Palm Beach received nearly a foot more rainfall than it normally does for the month, for example.… Read More
Methane Leaks May Negate Climate Benefits of Natural Gas
Methane leaks could undo the climate change benefits of America's natural gas boom, a new report said on Tuesday. The report, produced by the Centre for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES), said America's shift from coal to gas had produced important climate gains. Carbon dioxide emissions fell last year to their lowest point since 1994, accordin… Read More
NOAA To Revive Essential Weather Satellite on Thursday
NOAA will revive a vital weather satellite that covers the Atlantic Ocean and East Coast after it went offline on May 22.… Read More
