Tag: Climate & the Environment
January 1, 2021
Hot or Cold, Weather Alone Has No Significant Effect on COVID-19 Spread
At the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, there were high hopes that hot summer temperatures could reduce its spread. Although summer didn’t bring widespread relief,…
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Climate Change Could Reawaken Indian Ocean El Niño
Global warming is approaching a tipping point that during this century could reawaken an ancient climate pattern similar to El Ni.o in the Indian Ocean,…
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Hydraulic Fracturing and West Texas Quakes
A study by scientists from the TexNet Seismic Monitoring Program shows that some of the recent earthquake activity in the Delaware Basin of West Texas…
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Ramping Up Carbon Capture
A study led by the Bureau of Economic Geology makes the case that trapping emissions underground could go a long way toward reducing global greenhouse…
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Climate Change Increasing East African Rains
Seasonal rainfall is expected to rise significantly in East Africa during the next few decades in response to increased greenhouse gases, according to a study…
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Dev Niyogi
Growing up, Dev Niyogi had no idea how much his childhood in India would affect his future career path. As a child interested in math and science, he expected to join many of his…
Read MoreOctober 7, 2020
Key Indicators Discovered of Climate Change’s Impact on California Water Supply
Determining how climate change is affecting water supplies is difficult in a state like California that swings between floods and droughts, but a new study…
Read MoreMay 6, 2020
Climate Change Could Reawaken Indian Ocean El Niño
Global warming is approaching a tipping point that during this century could reawaken an ancient climate pattern similar to El Niño in the Indian Ocean,…
Read MoreFebruary 14, 2019
Solitary corals more likely survive in a warmer ocean
Feb. 1 (UPI) — Corals that prefer isolation to life on a reef are more likely to survive as oceans warm and become more acidic, according…
Read MoreJanuary 31, 2019
Climate Change Could Make Corals Go It Alone
Climate change is bad news for coral reefs around the world, with high ocean temperatures causing widespread bleaching events that weaken and kill corals. However,…
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Are the cat fossils from ocelots, margays, or something more mysterious?
After recovering small cat fossils from Natural Bridge Caverns doctoral student John Moretti is closing in on answers... #FossilFriday
https://www.jsg.utexas.edu/news/2024/10/scientists-closing-in-on-answers-about-lost-prehistoric-cats-of-natural-bridge-caverns/