Tag Archives: climate change

Study Offers Hope for Fungus-Infected Frogs

Photo courtesy Cori Richards-Zawacki.

Scientists from the U.S. and Panama have found that some frog species can recover from chytridiomycosis, an infectious disease partly responsible for amphibian die-offs around the world.

Read/listen to my full story at KJZZ’s Arizona Science Desk:
For Fungus-Infected Frogs, It’s Change or Die

Ground Subsidence Could Worsen Rising Seas in Coastal Areas

Areas of San Francisco Bay Area at risk from sea level rise. Graphic courtesy Arizona State University/Manoochehr Shirzaei)

A new study suggests official flood risk plans for the San Francisco Bay Area may underestimate inundation due to sea level rise over the next century by nearly 4 to 91 percent.

Other coastal cities could face similar effects, even under best-case scenarios.

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ASU Scientist: Sinking Ground Will Worsen Rising Seas In San Francisco Bay Area

In Lawsuit, Scientists Push Back Against EPA Advisory Board Policy

The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) this week filed to sue the Environmental Protection Agency in federal court.

The lawsuit is over an EPA policy that changes who can serve on its advisory boards.

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Scientists Sue EPA Over Who Can Serve On Advisory Boards

Global Warming and the Future of Wind Power

Predicted wind power changes in North America, 2080-2100. Map courtesy of Kristopher Karnauskas and Macmillan Publishers Ltd: Nature Geoscience, copyright 2017.

Alternative energy sources like wind offer a way to lessen a country’s carbon footprint. But global warming trends could soon change the way the wind blows.

As rapid arctic warming shrinks the heat gap between the North Pole and equator, Northern Hemisphere winds could lose some oomph — up to 40 percent over the next century, depending on region.

Read/listen to my full story at KJZZ’s Arizona Science Desk:
Winds Of Climate Change: How Global Warming Could Alter The Wind Power Landscape

Union of Concerned Scientists Issues New “Warning to Humanity”

Photo by Patrick Kelley.

This week marks 25 years since more than 1,700 scientists, led by the Union of Concerned Scientists, issued a “warning to humanity” concerning the costs of continued environmental destruction.

Now, they’ve issued another — this one signed by 15,000 scientists representing 184 countries.

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25 Years Later, Global Scientists Issue Second Warning To Humanity