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Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment
The loss of ice from Greenland’s largest basin is occurring much faster and could contribute up to six times more to global sea-level rise by 2100 than climate models currently project, according to a study led by Dartmouth professor Mathieu Morlighem with researchers from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and the University of California, Irvine.
New research uses NASA satellite observations and advanced computing to chronicle wetlands lost (and found) around the globe.
New research presented at COP27 shows that water is much more important in mitigating climate change than previously believed.
In the summer of 2020, Florida Museum researchers Tobias Grun and Michał Kowalewski dove into the shallow waters off the coast of the Florida Keys and scoured the ocean floor for sea urchins.
The World Health Organization’s most recent estimates (2016) are that over 4.2 million people die prematurely each year due to long-term exposure to fine particulate outdoor air pollution (often referred to as PM2.5,).
Extreme heat often follows tropical cyclones, which can complicate disaster recovery even further, researchers have found.
