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A new online site called Surging Seas from Climate Central maps the impact of climate change and sea level rise in coastal areas of the United States. The online and interactive map displays the potential impacts of 2 to 7 more feet of sea level rise that is possible this century, which will impact the [...]
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The CAUSE Resiliency (West Coast) experiment, which stands for Canada and U.S. Enhanced Resilience, demonstrates the coordinated emergency management response to a west coast earthquake along the Cascadian subduction zone, a 680-mile long fault that runs from Northern California all the way to British Columbia. The effort to coordinate data sharing and planning was sponsored [...]
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The World Water Forum that is taking place in Marseille, France this week aims to defuse some of the tensions around global water stress that is on the rise due to growing population, rapid urbanization, climate change, and demand for food. Concurrent with the conference is a new UN Water Development Report that provides an [...]
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Today the European Commission published a draft law that would expand monitoring of greenhouse emissions to both farm land and forestry. Land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) has so far been excluded from the EU’s set of fixed targets to try to curb climate change, and would require a whole new monitoring and [...]
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The city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands is adopting a monitoring and forecasting system to support both its water and energy systems that uses real-time information to manage infrastructure and operations related to the effects of climate change. The initiative is called Climate Proof, with aims to make the city climate resilient by 2025. In [...]
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The National Resource Defense Council has launched a new map that show the potential radiation damage from severe accidents at the nation’s nuclear reactors. The site launched at the one-year anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, and aims at raising awareness about the heightened need for further safety mandates at U.S. reactors. The [...]
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Today at the Growing America’s Outdoor Heritage and Economy Conference, U.S.D.A. secretary Tom Vilsack is set to announce a new Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) investment that will preserve 1 million acres of grassland and wetlands. The CRP, administered through the Farm Service Agency, has been around for 25 years, preserving land through voluntary participation. This [...]
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The China Earthquake Administration has just launched a new earth observation system to monitor the Earth’s crust. The GNSS-based system has a network of 260 full-time observing stations, and 2,000 part-time stations that closely monitor their positions and communicate those throughout the network. The project began in Dec. 2007, with a total cost of 524 [...]
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The University of Maryland is partnering with Beijing Normal University to create the Joint Center on Global Change and Earth System Science that will develop tools to track climate change. The center will create an international remote sensing database, track land use and cover, in addition to monitoring agriculture. The agricultural work will focus on [...]
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In this month’s journal Geology, there is a feature that recounts the efforts of scientists to map the forests during the Cretaceous period. The map and database of more than two thousand fossilised forest sites during this time of dinosaur abundance recount a broad reach of humid tropics, with forests that extended close to both [...]
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