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Hey Future New Yorkers, Have Fun Paddling to Work

If you’re planning to live in the Big Apple for the foreseeable future, it’s time to invest in flood insurance and a gondola. A new study finds that nine-foot floods, like those produced by Hurricane Sandy, will be three to 17 times more frequent by the end of the century, thanks to sea level rise…

Climate Change Maddie Stone Oct 10

Florida’s Coastline Is Underwater as Matthew Continues North

Category 3 Hurricane Matthew swept up eastern Florida today, delivering heavy rainfall, 100 mph gusts, and powerful waves all along the coast. The storm continues to march northward toward Georgia and South Carolina, with deadly six to nine foot surges possible into weekend. Mercifully, Matthew has stayed far enough off Florida’s coast to avoid inflicting…

Tech News Maddie Stone Oct 7

Deadly Hurricane Matthew Is a Warning About Our Future

There is no doubt that Hurricane Matthew is a nightmarish storm. Unfortunately, it’s exactly the sort of nightmare that’s expected to become more familiar in a warmer world. A little over a week ago, Matthew was a nameless tropical depression. It didn’t cause much stir when it intensified into a tropical storm. But then, it…

Climate Change Maddie Stone Oct 7

What the Largest Evacuation in Florida’s History Looks Like

More than two million people in coastal Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina are being told to flee their homes in advance of Hurricane Matthew, the Category 4 monster now bearing down on the United States after wreaking havoc across the Caribbean. It’s easily the largest mass evacuation on US soil since Hurricane Sandy, and it’s…

Tech News Maddie Stone Oct 6

Half a Million Residents Ordered to Flee Georgia’s Coast as Hurricane Matthew Approaches

With deadly Hurricane Matthew bearing down on the southeast, Governor Nathan Deal has just ordered a mandatory evacuation of the entire Georgia coast—six counties that are collectively home to more than half a million people. Georgia hasn’t had a tropical storm evacuation since Hurricane Floyd in 1999, which wound up being a near-miss. Matthew, which…

Tech News Maddie Stone Oct 6

Hurricane Matthew Is a Nightmare Scenario for Kennedy Space Center [Updated]

All signs are pointing toward deadly hurricane Matthew slamming directly into Space Coast—home to Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station—on Friday. If that unfortunate prediction comes true, it’ll be the worst storm to hit the iconic Florida spaceport since it was built in 1962. Weaker and more distant storms have dealt Kennedy…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone Oct 6

Hurricane Matthew Triggers Large-Scale Evacuations on the East Coast

As rescue workers begin to grapple with the destruction in Haiti following the nation’s worst hurricane in fifty years, Matthew is now steering a course directly for the southeastern United States, prompting widespread evacuations. Matthew weakened somewhat during its trek over mountainous Haiti and eastern Cuba yesterday, but it remains a powerful, Category 3 storm…

Tech News Maddie Stone Oct 5

We Need to Start Dealing With This Hidden Source of Carbon Pollution

When it comes to planet-warming gases we need to worry about, carbon dioxide is at the top of the list. But the runner-up in the climate hall of infamy—methane—is turning out to be a bigger problem than we realized. A study published in Nature today estimates that global methane emissions from the oil and gas…

Climate Change Maddie Stone Oct 5

The Entire East Coast Needs to Be on Alert for Hurricane Matthew

It isn’t yet clear how close of a brush the United States is going to have with powerful, dangerous Hurricane Matthew. What is clear, in the minds of meteorologists tracking the storm, is that the entire East Coast needs to be on alert. Matthew is currently unleashing Category 4 fury over Haiti, after which it’s…

Tech News Maddie Stone Oct 4

Hurricane Matthew’s Impact on Haiti Could Be Catastrophic

The extremely dangerous Hurricane Matthew continues to barrel north, with the center of the storm expected to approach southwestern Haiti by later today. The National Hurricane Center’s latest bulletin calls Matthew “life threatening,” and forecasters are making dire predictions about the how much damage Caribbean nations might suffer. Hurricane Matthew intensified rapidly on Friday, reaching…

Tech News Maddie Stone Oct 3

A Major Hurricane Just Developed Over the Caribbean

An ugly, dangerous storm is brewing out there. After a bout of rapid intensification last night, Hurricane Matthew has now achieved Category 3 status, packing 120 mph winds. It’s first major Caribbean hurricane since Sandy, and the strongest to develop in this particular region since 2008. According to the National Hurricane Center, the storm is…

Tech News Maddie Stone Sep 30

Scientists Just Discovered a Major New Source of Carbon Emissions

File this under bad news for humanity’s climate ambitions: The dams and reservoirs we use to harness ‘clean’ hydroelectric power and irrigate our crops apparently emit carbon. A lot of it. All told, man-made reservoirs release roughly a gigaton of heat-trapping greenhouse gases each year. That’s more than the entire nation of Canada. Scientists interested…

Climate Change Maddie Stone Sep 29

The Biggest Threat to NASA’s Future Is the Ocean

In October 2012, just a few days before Hurricane Sandy slammed into New Jersey, it was churning north past the narrow strip of white sand beach separating NASA’s most celebrated spaceport from the sea. For several days and nights, heavy storm surge pounded the shoreline, flattening dunes and blowing sand right up to the launchpads.…

Climate Change Maddie Stone Sep 27

Don’t Worry, the Earth Is Not Locked into Ten Degrees of Warming

The internet is abuzz with a new climate study that seemed to deliver a bombshell conclusion: the amount of carbon humans have put into the atmosphere may have already committed the planet 3 to 7 degrees Celsius (5.4 to 12.6 degrees Fahrenheit) of global warming. Three to 7 degrees Celsius is a big amount of…

Climate Change Maddie Stone Sep 26

Our Atmosphere Is Leaking Oxygen and Scientists Don’t Know Why

It’s nothing to lose sleep over—really, I promise—but Earth’s atmosphere is leaking oxygen. Atmospheric oxygen levels have dropped by 0.7 percent over the past 800,000 years, and while scientists aren’t sure why, they’re rather excited about it. “We did this analysis more out of interest than any expectation,” Princeton University geologist Daniel Stolper told Gizmodo.…

Tech News Maddie Stone Sep 22

These Tiny Fossils Do Not Bode Well For Antarctica’s Future

At the bottom of the world atop the forbidding Transantarctic Mountains sit the fossilized remains of microscopic, ocean-dwelling diatoms. For thirty years, scientists have argued over how these tiny algae came to rest thousands of feet above the sea. Now, sophisticated ice sheet models offer one of the best explanations yet—and it doesn’t bode well…

Climate Change Maddie Stone Sep 21

The Paris Climate Agreement Just Passed a Major Milestone

Good news, Earthlings: the Paris climate agreement had passed a critical milestone toward adoption. At a UN General Assembly meeting in New York this morning, 31 nations officially signed onto the accord, making it very likely that the deal will enter legal force this year. You may remember that the Paris agreement—an international pledge to…

Climate Change Maddie Stone Sep 21

Where We Will Grow Food After We Scorch the Earth

A relatively small number of crops make up a lot of the world’s diet. But, as the world gets hotter, the places that we’re able to grow these crops is moving. A new study published in Nature Communications by researchers at the University of Birmingham looks into whether the places where we currently grow our…

Climate Change Ria Misra Sep 20

Dramatic Visualizations Show Just How Quickly the Arctic Is Melting

On September 10th, the Arctic hit its annual summertime ice minimum. According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, it was the second lowest summertime low since satellite record-keeping began. And as a series of new visualizations show, this trend is not going anywhere. The Arctic is the fastest-warming region of our planet today,…

Climate Change Maddie Stone Sep 20

Indonesia’s Awful Fire Season Killed Up to 100,000 People

This time last year, tens of thousands of fires were raging across Indonesia’s peat forests, spewing carbon like coal plants and sending smoke halfway around the planet. But those fires weren’t just bad for our atmosphere: they were awful for the people who breathe it. A new study out of Harvard and Columbia Universities estimates…

Health Maddie Stone Sep 19

Hey Future New Yorkers, Have Fun Paddling to Work

Florida’s Coastline Is Underwater as Matthew Continues North

Deadly Hurricane Matthew Is a Warning About Our Future

What the Largest Evacuation in Florida’s History Looks Like

Half a Million Residents Ordered to Flee Georgia’s Coast as Hurricane Matthew Approaches

Hurricane Matthew Is a Nightmare Scenario for Kennedy Space Center [Updated]

Hurricane Matthew Triggers Large-Scale Evacuations on the East Coast

We Need to Start Dealing With This Hidden Source of Carbon Pollution

The Entire East Coast Needs to Be on Alert for Hurricane Matthew

Hurricane Matthew’s Impact on Haiti Could Be Catastrophic

A Major Hurricane Just Developed Over the Caribbean

Scientists Just Discovered a Major New Source of Carbon Emissions

The Biggest Threat to NASA’s Future Is the Ocean

Don’t Worry, the Earth Is Not Locked into Ten Degrees of Warming

Our Atmosphere Is Leaking Oxygen and Scientists Don’t Know Why

These Tiny Fossils Do Not Bode Well For Antarctica’s Future

The Paris Climate Agreement Just Passed a Major Milestone

Where We Will Grow Food After We Scorch the Earth

Dramatic Visualizations Show Just How Quickly the Arctic Is Melting

Indonesia’s Awful Fire Season Killed Up to 100,000 People

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