In summer 2022, record-breaking heat waves in California and elsewhere have triggered a stream of health alerts and warnings, strained power grids, and left millions of the most vulnerable Americans sweating through uncomfortable and sometimes deadly conditions.
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Climate Change From the Ground Up: Researchers Explore Sea Level Rise Impact on Building Foundations
Researchers have considered how flooding from rising sea levels and storm surges will damage the built environment along the coast, but what about climate change’s less noticeable impacts below the surface?
Saturn’s Rings and Tilt Could Be the Product of an Ancient, Missing Moon
A “grazing encounter” may have smashed the moon to bits to form Saturn’s rings, a new study suggests.
Rochester Researchers Go ‘Outside the Box’ to Delineate Major Ocean Currents
For the first time University of Rochester researchers have quantified the energy of ocean currents larger than 1,000 kilometers.
Scientists Predict Songbirds’ Striking Colours Put Them at Risk of Extinction
A pioneering scientist from our Department of Biosciences along with colleagues from University of Florida, USA, Centre for the Synthesis and Analysis of Biodiversity (CESAB), France, and Massey University, New Zealand have found that brightly and uniquely coloured songbirds are in greater danger of extinction and are more likely to be traded as pets.
Mexican Mangroves Have Been Capturing Carbon for 5,000 Years
Researchers have identified a new reason to protect mangrove forests: they’ve been quietly keeping carbon out of Earth’s atmosphere for the past 5,000 years.