Recent Heat Spike Unlike Anything In 11,000 Years
A new study looking at 11,000 years of climate temperatures shows the world in the middle of a dramatic U-turn, lurching from near-record cooling to a heat spike.
Giving Communities A Voice In Resilience
Most rural communities facing recurrent climate shocks learn to adapt, using their own resources and knowledge. Yet many international aid programmes have outside experts craft interventions without the involvement of those they seek to help.
Beaches Close As Sharks Make Annual Migration Along South Florida’s Coast
Temporary closures in south-east Florida sparked by arrival of thousands of ‘not predatory’ blacktip and spinner sharks.
We Aren’t Fighting Poverty Here, We’re Improving the Quality of Life
The residents of San Crisanto, a coastal village nestled in an idyllic setting in the southeastern Mexican state of Yucatán, have learned that valuing and protecting natural resources can generate employment and income.
Snowquester Threatens To Cause Major Coastal Flooding
An intensifying coastal storm, nicknamed “Snowquester,” was plastering the Mid-Atlantic states with 1-to-2 feet of heavy, cement-like snow on Wednesday, and is forecast to crawl northeastward, bringing the threat of multiple rounds of coastal flooding to an already vulnerable New Jersey shore and coastal New England, along with rain and snow.
Prepare For Severe Weather, Urge NOAA And FEMA
Be a Force of Nature: know your risk, take action, be an example.
Mauritius’ Beaches Contain Clues Pointing To Sunken Lost Continent
The beaches of Mauritius surround the island like a foamy white trim and sprinkled in the sand are clues to a lost, submerged continent. Beneath the floor of the Indian Ocean, researchers have found evidence for a landmass that would have existed between 2,000 and 85 million years ago.
ISRO launches Indo-French satellite ‘SARAL’
Launched with an aim at oceanographic studies, SARAL was accompanied by six foreign mini and micro satellites onboard the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) ‘s workhorse rocket PSLV.
Maize in Diets of People in Coastal Peru Dates to 5,000 Years Ago
Up until now, the prevailing theory was that marine resources, not agriculture and corn, provided the economic engine behind the development of civilization in the Andean region of Peru.