Louisiana has been losing its wetlands due to erosion, climate change, and other factors for 80 years now and there is one project that could help not only save our wetlands but build new ones. The project is called the Mid-Barataria Sediment Division. The Army Corps of Engineers has released … [continued]
For years (and we mean many years), the ocean helped us mitigate the early effects of human emissions by absorbing greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide and heat, from the atmosphere. As a result, more than 90 percent of the warming that happened on Earth between 1971 and 2010 occurred in the ocean.
In a post by the Environmental Defense Fund, the organization shares that Cuba is boosting climate resilience in agriculture and explains three things that the small island country could show us.
NASA and the NOAA have both found that the last decade was the hottest ever recorded.
The Center for Climate Integrity has released a report that details how much US coastal communities will need to spend over the next 20 years to protect from rising sea levels. The best case scenario is that is will only be $400 billion, but it could cost far more than that.
Miami is the home of almost half a million people. Its real estate has immense value. But Miami is built on porous sandstone, so even a seawall will not save it because the water flows right through the rock it is built on. To makes matters worse, Miami is just one of many communities in its area that are threatened. It is a problem across the whole southern end of Florida.
Roman concrete made with volcanic materials gets stronger as it ages, making it ideal for building structures to ward off the effects of rising sea levels.
Sea levels are already rising. One tends to think of this as a third world development but, between 1969 and 2010, Prince Edward Island lost 20 square kilometers. According to Dr. Adam Fenech, Director of the Climate Lab at the University of Prince Edward Island, close to a thousand PEI homes, 17 lighthouses (one of which is already half in the water) and a number of wind turbines could be lost by 2100.
While Egypt has been in something of a state of turmoil for, at the very least, the last few years, things are only slated to get worse and worse there, going by recent research.
How do we know our climate is changing drastically due to human activity, rather than just going through a normal period of flux? Let’s look at five major changes scientists have seen in our climate system to help set the record straight.
