Sea level rise to dramatically speed up erosion of rock coastlines by 2100
Rock coasts, which make up over half the world's coastlines, could retreat more rapidly in the future due to accelerating sea level rise.
Rock coasts, which make up over half the world's coastlines, could retreat more rapidly in the future due to accelerating sea level rise.
Earth Sciences
Nov 18, 2022
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Hurricanes threaten North American coastlines every year, and they appear to be intensifying as climate changes. Similar storms can also hit colder regions to the far north, and new research suggests they will intensify, ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 16, 2022
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Projections of future extreme precipitation change can be made more reliable by using a constraint from observed present-day precipitation variability, which reduces the uncertainties in projections by 20-40% over the mid-to-high ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 3, 2022
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Hybrids of two common North American songbirds, the black-capped and mountain chickadee, are more likely to be found in places where humans have altered the landscape in some way, finds new University of Colorado Boulder ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 28, 2022
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The Earth Model Column Collaboratory is an open-source research platform that pairs complex data with weather observations to create highly accurate climate models and forecast predictions.
Earth Sciences
Oct 12, 2022
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The Greenland ice sheet may be more vulnerable to climate change than previously thought, new research suggests.
Earth Sciences
Oct 12, 2022
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The Earth System Grid Federation, a multi-agency initiative that gathers and distributes data for top-tier projections of the Earth's climate, is preparing a series of upgrades that will make using the data easier and faster ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 5, 2022
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We rely on climate models to predict the future, but models cannot be fully tested as climate observations rarely extend back more than 150 years. Understanding the Earth's past climate history across a longer period gives ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 4, 2022
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The summer of 2022 has been characterized in Europe by images of drought and wildfires brought on by heat waves, including many areas not known for such extremes. At the time of writing, Europe has already recorded over 12,000 ...
Environment
Sep 27, 2022
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Following preparatory activities and a stringent process ESA Member States today formally selected Harmony for implementation as the tenth Earth Explorer mission within the FutureEO program. This unique satellite mission ...
Planetary Sciences
Sep 23, 2022
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