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Geotimes
March 2007 |
Geophenomena Appalachian Mountains Becoming More Rugged... Smoke on the Water...   |
Geotimes
August 2006
Jennifer Yauck |
Tree Rings Reveal Overestimate in Western Water When a severe drought hit the Colorado River Basin area between 2000 and 2004, people began to question whether current practices for managing the river would be adequate for managing future water demands. One recent study suggests an answer: probably not. |
Geotimes
June 2004
Sara Pratt |
Making El Nino Predictions The phenomenon may be more predictable than previously thought, according to a new climate model tested with a century and a half of data. |
Geotimes
April 2006
Megan Sever |
Pakistan's Wetter Weather Linked to Global Warming New data from millennium-long tree-ring analyses are indicating that mountains in northern Pakistan have grown significantly wetter over the past century than they have been over the last millennium -- quite possibly due to human-induced global warming, the researchers say. |
Geotimes
March 2007
Katherine Unger |
Indian Ocean to Face Extreme Weather New evidence from climate patterns of the distant past suggests that Indonesia and other regions bordering the Indian Ocean may experience devastating weather extremes, from powerful monsoons to lengthy droughts. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2012
Prachi Patel |
Predicting the Future of Drought Prediction Better instruments and models could help scientists forecast droughts years in advance |
Geotimes
April 2005
Laura Stafford |
Drought in the Horn of Africa Eastern Africa is suffering from a severe drought for the sixth year in a row, which could endanger the upcoming harvest season and put the area at risk of famine. |
Geotimes
December 2004
Naomi Lubick |
Corroding Pipe Organs Extreme Storms as Climate Warms Hurricanes, typhoons and drought. Aspects of these extreme weather conditions may be related to global climate change, some scientists say. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2008
Barry E. DiGregorio |
Climatologists and River Agency Butt Heads About Future of Southwest's Hydroelectric Power Will hydropower from Hoover Dam end in 2013, 2017, or just keep going? |
Science News
July 18, 2009
Sid Perkins |
Book Review: Weather's Greatest Mysteries Solved! By Randy Cerveny In this book, climatologist Randy Cerveny provides an insider's perspective on how storms, droughts and even asteroids may have altered the course of history. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2008
Michael Milstein |
6 Radical Solutions for U.S. Southwest's Peak Water Problem Increased usage and years of drought are diminishing the Colorado River's flow. States that rely on that water are forming strategies to deal with the problem. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2010
Adee & Moore |
In the American Southwest, the Energy Problem Is Water Energy producers on the Colorado River are struggling |
Geotimes
December 2006 |
Top Climate News Stories of 2006 A new public face for climate change... Strong debate over storms... Thawing ice shifts water cycles... Methane climate menagerie... etc. |
Geotimes
January 2005
Sara Pratt |
El Nino Drives Rainfall For the first time, scientists have been able to quantify the causes of year-to-year variability in global rainfall. |
Geotimes
October 2003
Megan Sever |
Defined at last: El Nino and La Nina Scientists have been studying El Nino and the later-named La Nina for more than 100 years, but only now have they reached a consensus on defining the climatic events. |
Science News
February 16, 2008 |
Timeline: From the February 12, 1938, issue Towers reach skyward to start radio waves... River took hardest way, formed Yellowstone Canyon... Years of drought coming to great basin, is warning... |
Geotimes
August 2005
Megan Sever |
Marshes Record Climate Changes Research coming out of a marsh near the mouth of the Hudson is now providing insight into how the ecosystem has evolved, based on a core that dates back 1,350 years, and could help planners better manage the system in the future. |
Geotimes
April 2005
Michael Glantz |
What Makes Good Climates Go Bad? Climates are constantly changing in both linear and nonlinear ways and over the course of life on Earth, organisms have either adjusted to those changes or perished. |
Geotimes
April 2003
Greg Peterson |
El Nino's future While forecasters can now predict El Nino events up to a year before they reach their peak, the impacts of long-term climate change on El Nino remain difficult to pin down. |
Geotimes
February 2007
Carolyn Gramling |
Past El Ninos Portend Future Climates A new study examining evidence of long-term variability at El Nino's source suggests the strength of the phenomenon is highly sensitive to even small changes in climate. That sensitivity could have implications for how it plays into future climate change. |
Geotimes
February 2007
Katherine Unger |
Climate to Blame in Cultural Collapses The Anasazi people in the Four Corners region of the American Southwest disappeared suddenly, possibly due to climate change that made food and water sources scarce. Researchers are now linking several past periods of climate change with failed civilizations. |
Geotimes
January 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
2005 Was Warmest Year on Record The record-breaking number of named storms during the 2005 hurricane season may have dominated weather news, but at the same time, another record was in the making: The year now stands as the warmest on record, according to some climatologists. |
Scientific American
August 2008
Keren Blankfeld Schultz |
Wildfires May Improve Forests' Ability to Sequester Carbon When saving trees means less carbon storage. |
National Gardening
Barbara Richardson |
El Nino Forecast for Gardeners With drought conditions prevailing in nearly half the country this year, it's been a tough time for gardeners. There is some relief in sight for the southern half of the U.S. as the El Nino weather system moves in this fall and winter. |
The Motley Fool
October 20, 2011
Rebecca Lipman |
Water Shortages: Here Are the U.S. Companies to Watch So as long as water shortages continue to plague wealthy regions investors might want to consider the possibility of tracking utility stocks exposed to the trend. |
Reason
October 2005
Sallie Baliunas |
Full of Hot Air Book review: A climate alarmist takes on "criminals against humanity" in Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists and Activists Are Fueling the Climate Crisis -- And What We Can Do to Avert the Disaster, by Ross Gelbspan. |
Scientific American
December 2006
Jeffrey D. Sachs |
The Challenge of Sustainable Water Water supplies around the world are already severely stressed. Population growth and global warming will only worsen those problems |
Geotimes
May 2003
Greg Peterson |
Mayan drought Geological studies of sediment show that from 750 to 950 A.D., a time when the Classic Maya civilization collapsed, the Cariaco Basin region suffered a century-long dry period, punctuated by four major droughts, adding strain to the disintegrating empire. |
Geotimes
September 2006
Lee Gerhard |
Testing Global Warming Hypotheses Global climate change has been a natural phenomenon driven by natural processes for 4.5 billion years. Nevertheless, cultural pressures exist to identify a human cause for current global climate change. |
Wired
April 21, 2008
Matthew Power |
Peak Water: Aquifers and Rivers Are Running Dry. How Three Regions Are Coping. Water has been a serious issue in the developing world for so long, but the scarcity of freshwater is no longer a problem restricted to poor countries. |
Scientific American
June 2007
Jeffrey D. Sachs |
Climate Change Refugees As global warming tightens the availability of water, prepare for a torrent of forced migrations. Economists, hydrologists, agronomists and climatologists will have to join forces to take the next steps in scientific understanding of this human crisis. |
Science News
April 11, 2009
Michel Jarraud |
Bracing For Global Climate Change Is A Local Challenge The secretary-general of the U.N. World Meteorological Organization discusses whether global climate change is real. |
The Motley Fool
June 16, 2011
Adam J. Crawford |
Exploring for Water A Texas-sized drought threatens oil exploration. |
