Posts tagged ‘climate change’
Architects Plan ‘Amphibious Landscape’ for New York City
What would New York’s waterfront look like after a sea level rise of 2 feet or more? (more…)
Rising Sea Levels Putting New York City at Risk
When major ice sheets thaw, they release enough fresh water to disrupt ocean currents world-wide and make the planet wobble with the uneven weight of so much meltwater on the move. Studying these effects more closely, scientists are discovering local variations in rising sea levels — and some signs pointing to higher seas around metropolitan New York. (more…)
New York City Girds Itself for Heat and Rising Seas
By the end of the century, New York’s climate could resemble that of present-day Raleigh, North Carolina and its harbor could easily rise by two feet or more. Faced with this prospect, the city is among the first urban centers to begin changing the way it builds its infrastructure — and the way it thinks about its future. (more…)
New Report Outlines Dire Climate Change Projections for NYC
the White House released a new climate-change report from the U.S. Global Change Research Program. In short, the study found that the nation’s average annual temperature has risen more than 2 degrees Fahrenheit over the past 50 years, and is expected to keep rising. (more…)
Tiny Ecosystem May Shed Light On Climate Change
MIT researchers have created a microbial ecosystem smaller than a stick of gum that sheds new light on the plankton-eat-plankton world at the bottom of the aquatic food chain.
The work, reported in the January print issue of American Naturalist, may lead to better predictions of marine microbes’ global-scale influence on climate. (more…)
The Journey of the World’s Dust
The Amazon rainforest owes its fertility in great part to the tons of dust that make a lengthy journey over the Atlantic Ocean every day. (more…)
A City by the Sea — or Under It?
Columbia University promises that its new campus in West Harlem will boast tree-lined blocks, new outdoor cafes and glass-walled buildings where arts and research will flourish. There’s one problem, though, according to Klaus Jacob, a special research scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University: It could all be underwater. (more…)
‘DOOMSDAY’ SEED VAULT OPENS IN ARCTIC
A “doomsday” seed vault built to protect millions of food crops from climate change, wars and natural disasters opened Tuesday deep within an Arctic mountain in the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. (more…)
