A panel of scientists speaking today at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) unveiled new research and models demonstrating how climate change could increase exposure and risk ...
Environment
Feb 19, 2011
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The shape and size of continents control the size of ocean tides on Earth-like planets, according to a new study that simulated the effects of random continental configurations on the energy of tides. The results have implications ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 2, 2020
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Surfers and spectators gathered along the Severn Bore in Gloucestershire, England, in recent days to take advantage of the tidal wave that swept upstream. What's known as a tidal bore – a wave of up to 2.8 metres – came ...
Space Exploration
Mar 5, 2014
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Coastal communities in eight locations along the East and West coasts experienced record high tide flooding last year—a trend that is expected to continue in 2024. For many communities, the expected strengthening of El ...
Environment
Aug 23, 2023
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Suppose you're walking along the beach and you see a jellyfish washed up on the sand. Then you see another and then another. It's a jellyfish invasion! What do you do? Who do you call?
Ecology
Mar 23, 2010
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Indonesian teacher Sulkan leafs through pictures at his small sea-surrounded mosque, remembering a marching band and smiling children who graduated from his kindergarten, standing on a road now submerged by murky, green water.
Environment
Jul 24, 2023
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Tons of dead fish. A smell so awful you gag with one inhale. Empty beaches, empty roads, empty restaurants.
Ecology
Aug 10, 2018
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Severe coastal flooding inundated islands and atolls across the western equatorial Pacific last week, with widespread damage to buildings and food crops in the Federated States of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 16, 2021
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Some 70 dead whales have been found in southern Chile less than a year after more than 330 whales washed up in a remote Patagonian inlet.
Plants & Animals
Jul 21, 2016
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Hurricane Michael is likely to affect the Florida Red Tide bloom. What's not yet clear is how.
Environment
Oct 12, 2018
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