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“#San Francisco blanketed in smoke as California fires rage” The San Francisco skyline is barely visible through smoke from wildfires Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020, in this view from Sausalito, Calif. Thousands of people were under orders to evacuate in regions surrounding the San Francisco Bay Area Wednesday as nearly 40 wildfires blazed across the state…
“#Some California cities think they’re safe from sea level rise. They’re not, new research shows” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Just north of the Golden Gate Bridge, yet a world away from San Francisco, in an unincorporated and oft-overlooked area known as Marin City, sea level rise is rarely the first worry that comes to mind….
“#NASA-NOAA satellite provides overnight watch on hurricane Genevieve” NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed the Eastern Pacific Ocean overnight on Aug. 18 at 8 p.m. EDT (Aug. 19 at 0000 UTC) and captured a nighttime image of Hurricane Genevieve off the coast of western Mexico. City lights from the coastal communities can be seen in the…
“#NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite snaps Tropical Storm Higos’ landfall” NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite provided forecasters with a visible image of Tropical Storm Higos as it was making landfall in the Guangdong Province of China on Aug. 19 at 0000 UTC (Aug. 18 at 8 p.m. EDT). Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information…
“#California staves off more power outages amid heat wave” A woman cools off in the water at Pirates Cove in Corona del Mar in Newport Beach, Calif., Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020. (Leonard Ortiz/The Orange County Register via AP) California staved off another round of rolling blackouts as a searing heat wave strained its electrical grid,…
“#Genevieve approaches Mexico’s Baja as Category 3 hurricane” Powerful Hurricane Genevieve began flinging rain at Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula on Wednesday and it threatened to bring hurricane-force winds to the tourist region even if its center wasn’t likely to hit land. The Category 3 storm was expected to pass near the resort-dotted tip the peninsula…
“#Bacteria can defuse dangerous chemical in Rassaic River” A view of the dioxin-contaminated Passaic River in Newark, New Jersey. Credit: Donna E. Fennell Bacteria that can help defuse highly toxic dioxin in sediments in the Passaic River—a Superfund hazardous waste site—could eventually aid cleanup efforts at other dioxin-contaminated sites around the world, according to Rutgers…
“#Food from the sea: Sustainably managed fisheries and the future” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Demand for food is set to rise substantially in the coming decades, which raises a question: How well can the ocean fill the gap between current supply and future need? To find an answer, the High Level Panel for a Sustainable…
“#New research highlights ‘challenging nature’ of vested interests in the energy transition” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Pioneering new research has highlighted some of the political difficulties with the UK’s energy transition, in particular around vested fossil fuel interests. The research, by Dr. Richard Lowes and Dr. Bridget Woodman from the University of Exeter’s Energy Policy…
“#Heating our climate damages our economies: Study reveals greater costs than expected” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Rising temperatures due to our greenhouse gas emissions can cause greater damages to our economies than previous research suggested, a new study shows. Scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and the Mercator Research Institute for…