by faster | Jul 30, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: The Sydney Morning Herald and Nature Climate Change DATE: July 30, 2018 SNIP: Australia’s rainfall events are already becoming more intense with climate change, raising the risks of flashflooding and potentially exceeding the nation’s engineering...
by faster | Jun 24, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: Washington Post DATE: June 24, 2018 SNIP: Torrential rain events across the United States are becoming more frequent and more intense, leading to record rainfall, rare extreme flooding and perilous infrastructure failures. Experts say the immense rains — some...
by faster | Jun 9, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: Weather.com DATE: June 9, 2018 SNIP: Heavy rainfall from storms has increased by up to 70 percent in some areas of the United States since the 1950s and will only get worse in the coming years, thanks to global warming, scientists say. The 2014 National...
by faster | Jun 6, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: National Center for Environmental Information at NOAA DATE: June 6, 2018 SNIP: Tropical cyclones—also sometimes referred to as hurricanes and typhoons—are taking substantially longer to move from place to place, according to a new study by NCEI scientist Jim...
by faster | Aug 31, 2017 | Blog
SOURCE: The Atlantic DATE: August 31, 2017 SNIP: Humans have begun an international project to move water around the world, far more ambitious than any network of aqueducts or hydroelectric dams ever constructed or conceived. The Earth system is getting warmer. Water...