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“#Hurricane Douglas bears down on Hawaii as pandemic flares” The first hurricane to threaten the United States since the start of the coronavirus pandemic is presenting new challenges to Hawaii officials long accustomed to tropical storms. For example, how do you secure enough shelter space when people have to stay at least 6 feet (1.8…
“#Small-farm tech reduces deforestation, climate change” Miombo woodlands near the Lower Zambezi National Park, Zambia. Credit: Johanne Pelletier Small farms in Zambia that use the latest hybrid seed for maize, along with improving health on neutral soils, help reduce deforestation and tackle climate change, Cornell University researchers report this month in Global Environmental Change. “Scientists…
“#NASA examines Tropical Storm Gonzalo’s structural changes” NASA’s Aqua satellite provided a visible image to forecasters of Tropical Storm Gonzalo in the central North Atlantic Ocean on July 22, 2020. Credit: NASA Worldview Visible and microwave imagery from NASA’s Aqua satellite indicated Tropical Storm Gonzalo was slightly less organized than it was on the previous…
“#NASA finds strength in new Gulf Tropical Depression 8” On July 23 at 4:05 a.m. EDT (0805 UTC), the MODIS instrument aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite gathered temperature information about Tropical Depression 8’s cloud tops. MODIS found several areas of powerful thunderstorms (red) where temperatures were as cold as or colder than minus 70 degrees Fahrenheit…
“#U.S. Congress approves conservation bill” by Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times </p><div> <div> <div data-src=”https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/hires/2020/land.jpg” data-sub-html=”Credit: CC0 Public Domain” data-thumb=”https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2020/land.jpg”> <figure><img alt=”land” height=”480″ src=”https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800/2020/land.jpg” title=”Credit: CC0 Public Domain” width=”800″></img><figcaption> Credit: CC0 Public Domain </figcaption></figure></div> Congress has passed sweeping legislation allocating $900 million a year for the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), and an…
“#Understanding the microbial community hiding in our showers” One of the three shower stalls in the INHALE Lab, led by Sarah Haig, which will study the effects of different shower head materials on opportunistic pathogen growth and exposure. Credit: University of Pittsburgh In Benedum Hall at the University of Pittsburgh, nine shower heads in three…
“#New technique to capture carbon dioxide could greatly reduce power plant greenhouse gases” Credit: CC0 Public Domain A big advance in carbon capture technology could provide an efficient and inexpensive way for natural gas power plants to remove carbon dioxide from their flue emissions, a necessary step in reducing greenhouse gas emissions to slow global…
“#A world drowning in plastic pollution” There is a credible pathway to significantly reduce ocean plastic flow into the ocean, but only if all solutions are implemented Credit: The Pew Charitable Trusts/SYSTEMIQ More than 1.3 billion tonnes of plastic will be dumped on land and in the oceans over the period from 2016 to 2040…
“#The climate won’t warm as much as we feared – but it will warm more than we hoped” Credit: Shutterstock We know the climate changes as greenhouse gas concentrations rise, but the exact amount of expected warming remains uncertain. Scientists study this in terms of “equilibrium climate sensitivity”—the temperature rise for a sustained doubling of…
“#Energy majors ‘spend 90%’ on fossil fuels despite climate pledges” Anglo-Dutch giant Shell plans to reduce its net carbon footprint by 65 percent by 2050 Energy giants Shell and Total continue to invest 90 percent of their capital on planet-warming fossil fuels despite promises to slash their greenhouse gas emissions, according to an industry analysis…