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Climate Change is Worsening the Coastal Impacts of Hurricanes

We are now in the 2022 hurricane season which lasts through November. Extreme weather expert Kevin Reed, PhD, Associate Professor in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) at Stony Brook University, says that ongoing research shows climate change is worsening the coastal impacts of hurricanes --- which are becoming wetter and more intense causing negative environmental and economic effects for our coastal communities.

27 Jun 2022

Passive Cooling Strategies may Help Beat the Summer Heat

Opening the windows at night and pulling down shades during the sunniest part of the afternoon can keep homes from becoming dangerously hot during extreme heat waves.

27 Jun 2022

First and Largest UK Carbon Capture Plant Opens

Tata Chemicals Europe (“TCE”) today officially opened the UK’s first industrial scale carbon capture and usage plant today, signalling a key milestone in the race to meet the UK’s net zero targets.

27 Jun 2022

Climate Change to Impact Carbon-Rich Ecosystem, Finds Study

At the University of Portsmouth, scientists state that a “one size fits all” method to conserving mangrove forests will not work as a new study discloses a fragile blue carbon system.

24 Jun 2022

Habitat Changes Along the Atlantic Coast Will Release Even More Carbon Into the Atmosphere, Study Predicts

A new modeling study headed by scientists at Duke University has found that increasing sea levels make marshes shift inland in six mid-Atlantic states, and the coastal zone will not remain to act as a carbon sink but liberate more carbon into the air.

24 Jun 2022

Study Suggests the Need for Active Stewardship to Tackle Climate Change

According to a new study performed, the need to deal with climate change has turned out to be all the more pressing and so too does the simultaneous requirement for proactive stewardship of the quickly altering biosphere of the Earth.

24 Jun 2022

Climate Change Linked to Alarming Water Imbalance in the Tibetan Plateau

Climate change is putting an enormous strain on global water resources, and according to researchers, the Tibetan Plateau is suffering from a water imbalance so extreme that it could lead to an increase in international conflicts.

24 Jun 2022

Study: Warming Patterns Differ in Maine Wild Blueberry Fields Based on Location, Season and Time

The location, season and the time of day influence how fast temperatures are rising at Maine wild blueberry fields due to climate change, according to a new University of Maine study.

23 Jun 2022

Engineers Explore Ways to Strengthen Coastal Structures in the Face of Climate Change

University of Miami engineering and ocean sciences faculty members received federal research funding recently to delve into how they can strengthen coastal buildings and seawalls in the face of climate change.

23 Jun 2022

Soil Microbes Underpin Ecosystem Restoration

Robust long-term ecosystem restoration relies not just on replanting native vegetation but on the recovery of underlying soil biodiversity – yet this area has received little attention and is poorly understood, Flinders University researchers say.

22 Jun 2022