Florida Is Fighting to Feed Starving Manatees This Winter
[ad_1] Few vignettes show how much human activity has affected wildlife more than the scene at Florida Power & Light’s plant in Cape Canaveral. Hundreds of manatees bask in an…
Alaska’s Arctic Waterways Are Turning a Foreboding Orange
[ad_1] This story originally appeared on High Country News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Dozens of once crystal-clear streams and rivers in Arctic Alaska are now running…
A New NASA Satellite Will Map Earth’s Rising Seas
[ad_1] SWOT could turn out to be a major improvement over measurements by previous satellites. “Instead of a ‘pencil beam’ moving along the Earth’s surface from a satellite, it’s a…
How Do You Prove There’s Ice on the Moon? With a Lunar Flashlight
[ad_1] “For me, this is a dream measurement,” says David Paige, a planetary scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles who has been part of the mission since its…
Pliocene-Like Monsoons Are Returning to the American Southwest
[ad_1] Leaf waxes also predate climate records from Antarctic ice cores, which go back only about a million years and require a climate that can support ice. One study used leaf…
A Caustic Shift Is Coming for the Arctic Ocean
[ad_1] Imagine, for a moment, that you are standing on a pier by the sea, grasping, somewhat inexplicably, a bowling ball. Suddenly you lose your grip and it tumbles down…
The World Needs More Gigantic Sci-Fi Sea Dams
[ad_1] The figures might not add up now, but the amount of untapped energy available ought to be hard to ignore. Coles and his colleagues found that tidal stream power…
If You Don’t Already Live in a Sponge City, You Will Soon
[ad_1] Like anything else, water is great in moderation—urbanites need it to survive, but downpours can flood streets and homes. And as you might have noticed, climate change isn’t good…
5 Best Water Leak Detectors (2022): Smart Water, Temperature, and Humidity Sensors
[ad_1] Here’s what you need to think about when you shop for smart leak detectors and install them in your home. Placement and Sensors: Unless you have a single problem…
The Drying Up of Europe’s Great Rivers Could Be the New Normal
[ad_1] Scientists say that the economic cost of the rivers’ decimation is only part of the problem. The less water in the water system as a whole, explains Gabriel Singer,…
What Is a Wetland Worth?
[ad_1] Annie Proulx was not able to travel for her book on wetlands. She had imagined journeys into the disappearing Siberian mires and the English fens, which are already mostly…
Philadelphia’s Diatom Archive Is a Way, Way, Wayback Machine
[ad_1] However, in recent decades, the sea has dominated the once-dynamic coastal margin, propelling farther inland as sea levels rise. Over the last century, the sea level along New Jersey…
Lawns Are Dumb. But Ripping Them Out May Come With a Catch
[ad_1] But overall, says University of California Berkeley innovation designer Ian McRae, who studies climate resilience in the built environment, lawns are an inefficient way to cool a green space,…
The Colorado River Is Dying. Can Its Aquatic Dinosaurs Be Saved?
[ad_1] To keep those Glen Canyon turbines spinning, Lake Powell needs more water. But without big cuts in consumption, the obvious solution for filling the reservoir is stealing the water…
New Reservoirs Could Help Battle Droughts, but at What Cost?
[ad_1] In an ancient wood in Hampshire, a county in southern England, construction workers are felling trees and clearing stumps. Over the workers’ shoulders, ecologists check to make sure that…
Pakistan’s ‘Monster Monsoon’ Shows the Wrath of Climate Change
[ad_1] This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The climate crisis is the prime suspect for the devastating scale of flooding in…
How Scientists Are Cleaning Up Rivers Using Grasses and Oysters
[ad_1] One hundred miles north of Philadelphia, the Billion Oyster Project has been restoring the bivalves in New York Harbor since 2010, engaging more than 10,000 volunteers and 6,000 students…
How Long Droughts Make Flooding Worse
[ad_1] On Wednesday, August 17, Hannah Cloke—a hydrologist at the University of Reading—was sitting in her home office when the rain started coming down. It was a welcome sight. Much…
Is Coal Mining Increasing East Kentucky’s Flood Risk?
[ad_1] This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Appalachian states like Kentucky have a long, turbulent history with coal and mountaintop removal—an extractive…
The Controversial Plan to Unleash the Mississippi River
[ad_1] The LSU report, though, became best known for its proposed solution, which focused on counteracting levees. The authors suggested that some water and mud be diverted out of the…