Posted by Editor | Oct 28, 2009 | 0 Comments
Nick Frearson, Gravimeter Instrument Team, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory:
PUNTA ARENAS, Chile–Skimming across the Weddell Sea at 250 miles per hour I am finally on the way to Antarctica. Even though my visit to the white continent will be at a height of 1500 ft I still feel a sense of ‘homecoming’, as if I am back [...]
Posted by Editor | Oct 28, 2009 | 0 Comments
PUNTA ARENAS, Chile–After flying for several hours over a windswept Southern Ocean, the mission director announces that we will be slowly descending towards Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier. Just below are the Hudson Mountains, a small group of extinct volcanoes poking through the ice.
As we approach our survey area, John Sonntag from NASA’s flight facility on [...]
Posted by Kim Martineau | Sep 15, 2009 | 0 Comments
Bärbel Hönisch, an expert on ocean acidification at Columbia, will speak after a screening of the film “A Sea Change” this Thursday.
Posted by Kim Martineau | May 1, 2009 | 0 Comments
Even on a sunny day, nearly 13 million gallons of water are pumped from New York City subways. As global warming brings rising sea levels and stormier weather, more flooding is expected for New York’s transit system.
To adapt, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority needs to develop a master plan that lays out the costs of upgrading [...]
Posted by Kevin Krajick | Apr 27, 2009 | 0 Comments
A new book, Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future, serves as an excellent, long-needed primer on the workings of earth’s climate. Authored by Edmond A. Mathez, curator of a major exhibit on climate change at the American Museum of Natural History, it is clearly aimed at college students–but is clearly also just one of [...]
Posted by Kevin Krajick | Apr 23, 2009 | 4 Comments
Scientists warn that many cities around the world may soon face big climate-change challenges: rising seas; shrinking water supplies; killer summer heat waves; rises in water-borne diseases as temperatures go up and sewers are swamped. No one is predicting that, say, London or Miami will simply drop beneath the waves–but these and other cities will probably have to be redesigned if [...]
