Category: Environment

How Technology and Artificial Intelligence are Bolstering the Battle Against Wildfires

1/14/2024 - By Mark Hillsdon January 2 - From satellites that can pinpoint the first signs of a wildfire from hundreds of miles away in space, to algorithms that predict how and where a blaze could spread, technology is now in the frontline in the fight against wildfires. In the past few… SEE MORE

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Modern Hurricanes Have a Surprise Ingredient

1/13/2024 - By Matt Simon As Hurricane Larry curved north in the Atlantic in 2021, sparing the eastern seaboard of the United States, a special instrument was waiting for it on the island of Newfoundland, in Canada. Because hurricanes feed on warm ocean water, scientists wondered whether such a storm could pick… SEE MORE

The ISFS tower configuration was lovingly called the "Bermuda Triangle" because the main weather towers were positioned in a triangle to gather data from a variety of angles and account for changing wind direction. The arms extending from the towers contain a combination of sonic anemometers/gas analyzers that take measurements, which helps scientists to determine what happens to snow and water vapor at differing heights.

How Much Snow Disappears Into Thin Air?

1/9/2024 - By ucar.edu Scientists have wrapped up a major field project high in the Colorado mountains that will eventually help water resource managers to better quantify critical water resources stored in mountain snowpacks. The Sublimation of Snow (SOS) project, which ran from October 2022 to May 2023, aims to advance understanding… SEE MORE

Percent of normal U.S. precipitation over the past 30 days (December 25, 2022, through January 23, 2023) after a series of weather events known as atmospheric rivers, fueled by tropical moisture, flooded the U.S. West with rain and snow. Places where precipitation was less than 100 percent of the 1991-2020 average are brown; places where precipitation was 300 percent or more than average are blue-green. NOAA Climate.gov image, based on analysis and data provided by the Climate Mapper website.

Climate Highlights of 2023

1/5/2024 - By HALEY THIEM This year was a busy year for our team at Climate.gov providing updated maps, graphs, stories, and deeper explanations of our planet’s changing climate. There were many weather and climate events across the globe from extreme rainfall, to record warmth, and a major ENSO transition (just to name a… SEE MORE

Opportunity: Virginia Wildlife Grant Applications Now Open

1/4/2024 - By Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources. This is the 10th year of the Virginia Wildlife Grant Program which connects people to the outdoors. Over the past decade, nearly 245 projects have been supported at $730,000 and have connected over 70,000 participants to the outdoors! Who should apply? Organizations that are… SEE MORE

Grant Opportunity

Boating: Assessing Our Carbon Footprint

1/3/2024 - By Eric Colby. Recreational boats account for less than 0.1% of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to a report called “Pathways to Propulsion Decarbonization for the Recreational Marine Industry” commissioned by the International Council of Marine Industry Associations. The same vessels also create 0.7% of transportation carbon dioxide emissions in… SEE MORE

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Are Sea Cucumbers a Cleanup Solution to Fish Farm Pollution?

12/8/2023 - By Yale School of the Environment. Seafood farm operators are breeding and deploying sea cucumbers to vacuum up the massive amounts of fish waste that pose a major problem for their industry. It is part of an effort to redesign fish farms with multiple species so that they work more like… SEE MORE

Fish Farming

Ocean Iron Fertilization May Help Remove CO₂

12/7/2023 - By MonangaBay.com. After a hiatus of more than 10 years, a new round of research into ocean iron fertilization is set to begin, with scientists saying the controversial geoengineering approach has the potential to remove “gigatons per year” of carbon dioxide from Earth’s atmosphere. The idea behind ocean iron fertilization is… SEE MORE

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New Wetland Park in Delaware Solves Decades of Flooding Issues

12/7/2023 - From NOAA's Office of Coastal Management. The Takeaway: A formerly contaminated area in Delaware has been turned into a park that restores and enhances existing wetlands, provides a recreation area for the community, and hosts a stormwater management facility that reduces flooding. A new 1,800-foot handicap-accessible route runs through the… SEE MORE

A zoomed in image of the Antarctic strawberry feather star, formally known as Promachocrinus fragarius. (via Emily McLaughlin, Nerida Wilson and Greg Rouse)

Scientists Discover New, ‘Otherworldly’ Species with 20 Arms in the Antarctic Ocean

11/7/2023 - By ctvnews.ca. Ten rays. Twenty arms. Strawberry-like. That’s how a team of scientists from Australia and the United States have described a new, creepy-looking underwater species they discovered after a series of research expeditions near Antarctica. Emily McLaughlin, Nerida Wilson and Greg Rouse published their findings on the newfound species in… SEE MORE

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