Tag: climate change
Climate change is relentless: Seemingly small shifts have big consequences
Kevin Trenberth, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Climate change has been accumulating slowly but relentlessly for decades. The changes...
When hotter and drier means more – but eventually less –...
Maureen C Kennedy, University of Washington; Don McKenzie, University of Washington, and Jeremy Littell, US Geological Survey
There is...
Tick bites: Every year is a bad tick year
Jory Brinkerhoff, University of Richmond
It’s summer, a time to hike, garden, vacation – and to be on the...
As Colorado River Basin states confront water shortages, it’s time to...
Robert Glennon, University of Arizona
The U.S. government announced its first-ever water shortage declaration for the Colorado River on...
A century after the Appalachian Trail was proposed, millions hike it...
Charles C. Chester, Brandeis University
The Appalachian Trail, North America’s most famous hiking route, stretches over 2,189 mountainous miles...
IPCC climate report: Profound changes are underway in Earth’s oceans and...
Robert Kopp, Rutgers University
Humans are unequivocally warming the planet, and that’s triggering rapid changes in the atmosphere, oceans...
What will the Earth be like in 500 years?
Michael A. Little, Binghamton University, State University of New York and William D. MacDonald, Binghamton University, State University of New York
A 20-foot sea wall won’t save Miami – how living structures...
Landolf Rhode-Barbarigos, University of Miami and Brian Haus, University of Miami
Miami is all about the water and living...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
