Even a modest sea level rise, triggered by increasing global temperatures, would place 100 airports below mean sea level by 2100, a new study has found.
Earth Sciences
Jan 21, 2021
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Arsenic levels at a former mining site in the Tamar Valley are posing a health risk to employees and the public using the site, a new study suggests.
Environment
May 19, 2020
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Cities from New York to Miami and from New Orleans to Los Angeles are feeling the impact of climate change—and in some areas, rising water levels, heat waves, droughts and fire risk are putting a serious dent in real estate ...
Economics & Business
Nov 5, 2019
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How dangerous is travel in the United States? It depends on how you frame the question. If it's risk per kilometer, the U.S. has 6.71 deaths per billion vehicle kilometers of travel compared to the United Kingdom, which has ...
Social Sciences
Oct 15, 2019
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The greater frequency of droughts, combined with underlying economic, social and environmental risks, means that dry spells have an increasingly destructive impact on vulnerable populations, and particularly on children in ...
Environment
Aug 12, 2019
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Scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and China University of Petroleum (Beijing) have demonstrated that CO2 may make a better hydraulic fracturing (fracking) fluid than water. Their research, published May 30 in ...
Materials Science
May 30, 2019
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Climate change is a chronic challenge – it is here now, and will be with us throughout this century and beyond. As the U.S. government's National Climate Assessment report made clear, it's already affecting people throughout ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 5, 2019
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A major dust storm swept through Sydney and regional New South Wales this week. Red skies over Broken Hill on Wednesday night and Sydney on Thursday resembled those seen during intense bushfire activity and the massive 2009 ...
Environment
Nov 26, 2018
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One of the most striking features of Santa Catalina Island, southwest of Los Angeles, is an absence. Unlike much of the California coast and its closest islands, Catalina lacks cliffs stepping up and back from the sea – ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 21, 2018
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The United Nations scientific panel on climate change recently released a major report that examined the benefits of trying to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above nineteenth-century temperatures and described ...
Environment
Nov 14, 2018
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