Tag: climate change
November 1, 2017
Intensifying Winds Could Increase East Antarctica’s Contribution to Sea Level Rise
Totten Glacier, the largest glacier in East Antarctica, is being melted from below by warm water that reaches the ice when winds over the ocean…
Read MoreSeptember 13, 2017
Scientists Just Linked Another Record-Breaking Weather Event to Climate Change
Last year, a remarkable April heat wave shattered all-time temperature records across Southeast Asia, prompting public health concerns, killing at least one elephant and making international headlines. Now,…
Read MoreAugust 28, 2017
Algae Fortifies Coral Reefs in Past and Present
The Great Barrier Reef, and most other large reefs around the world, owe their bulk in large part to a type of red algae that…
Read MoreJune 6, 2017
Scientists Unravel How El Niño and Global Warming Combine to Cause Record-Breaking Heat in Southeast Asia
Scientists at The University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) have found that a devastating combination of global warming and El Niño is responsible for…
Read MoreApril 17, 2017
Glacier Shape Influences Susceptibility to Thinning
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have identified glaciers in West Greenland that are most susceptible to thinning in the coming decades by…
Read MoreMarch 15, 2017
Recovery After “Great Dying” was Slowed by More Extinctions
Researchers studying marine fossil beds in Italy have found that the world’s worst mass extinction was followed by two other extinction events, a conclusion that…
Read MoreFebruary 27, 2017
Severe weather brings up climate change
San Antonio is cleaning up after an assault this week by an astounding four tornadoes. Is this what the future holds for us? We’ll hear…
Read MoreJuly 5, 2016
California Droughts Caused Mainly by Changes in Wind, Not Moisture
Droughts in California are mainly controlled by wind, not by the amount of evaporated moisture in the air, new research has found. The findings were…
Read MoreMay 19, 2016
Unstable East Antarctic Glacier Has Contributed To Sea Level Rise in the Past
Research published in the journal Nature on May 19 has revealed that vast regions of the Totten Glacier in East Antarctica are fundamentally unstable and…
Read MoreDecember 4, 2015
Top Energy Officials from North America Gather at The University of Texas at Austin to Collaborate on Carbon Capture Solutions
Energy officials from across North America met at The University of Texas at Austin Bureau of Economic Geology Dec. 2 and 3 to discuss how…
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