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This map just released by the NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory illustrates the 2,755 daytime and 6,171 nighttime heat records broken across the United States in July of 2011. Each heat record point reveals a map that almost reveals the complete outline of the contiguous United States, showing how widespread the high heat was across the [...]
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Researchers from MIT, the University of Maryland, and the Santa Fe Institute have come up with a new model that predicts the maximum tree height in different environments across the United States. The model has inputs on temperature, precipitation, humidity and solar radiation, and uses these measurements to compute how tall a tree is likely [...]
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Former Vice President Gore today launched The Climate Reality Project to raise awareness of the climate crisis. The project is building toward the “24 Hours of Reality,” a worldwide day of activism slated for September 14. The link between extreme weather and global warming is a major focus of this effort. View the video below [...]
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The Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) led the project to map the British landscape vegetation and land cover at an unprecedented scale. The latest UK Land Cover Map (LCM) shows the distribution of different habitats throughout the country at a 25-metre resolution. The impetus for the project is the decline in insect pollinators, with [...]
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Last week the Australian Space and Research program awarded a $2.3 million grant to the Greenhouse Gas Monitor (GGM) research project that is working to develop a mobile sensor to analyze greenhouse gases. The award is an extension to other funding that began in 2007 for baseline mapping of soil, groundwater and atmospheric monitoring. The [...]
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The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) launched an online mapping site today that documents and tracks the impacts of climate change. The Climate Hot Map contains details of five subject areas: people (public health, food supplies and the economy), lakes and rivers, the oceans, ecosystems and temperatures. The site allows users to zoom into areas [...]
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The UK’s Institution of Mechanical Engineers has calls for prioritized funding for technologies that can tackle emissions. The means to capture and store CO2 from the air, and for the creation of closed loop manufacturing and energy generation practices, are mechanical problems that should have more research funding, according to the institution. “Technology like artificial [...]
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Chicago is among the leading U.S. cities that is taking climate change seriously, with practical planning and action in place to combat the changes. To begin with, the city created a detailed model of changes with a century’s worth of historical observations of temperature and precipitation. The forecast showed that the city can expect “72 [...]
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This morning at The National Map Users Conference in Denver, Joel Scheraga, senior advisor for climate adaptation at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, addressed the group. He asserted that for us to be successful in combating and adapting to climate change, it is absolutely imperative to have ready access to geospatial information. truly believe we [...]
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Tim Flannery, noted author, mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist, and climate change expert, has a hopeful long-term view for the future of our species and planet. In his 17th book, Here on Earth, he explores the fundamental nature of our species and takes the view that we’re not simply about survival of the fittest, but instead adaptable, [...]
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