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Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment
More frequent and longer-lasting droughts caused by rising global temperatures pose significant risks to people and ecosystems around the world – according to new research from the University of East Anglia (UEA).
New NOAA-funded social science research published online today in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society shows that the Spanish words currently used by NOAA’s National Weather Service and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for tornado warnings do not carry the same level of urgency needed to spur protective action as the English words used for these warnings.
According to satellite observations, Arctic sea ice reached its annual minimum extent on Sept. 18, 2022.
Stronger hurricanes that are reenergised by jet stream winds are twice as likely to cross the Atlantic and wreak havoc in Europe than weaker ones, new research has found.
“This lake wasn’t here 50 years ago.”
The ability of rainforests to store carbon can decrease in pace with climate change.
