Tag: Climate & the Environment
January 6, 2022
Cities Boosted Rain, Sent Storms to the Suburbs During Europe’s Deadly Summer Floods
When it comes to extreme weather, climate change usually gets all the attention. But according to a study from The University of Texas at Austin…
Read MoreSeptember 15, 2021
Water Metrics
Scientists find key indicators to determine Climate change’s impact on California’s water supply.
Read MoreSeptember 10, 2021
UT Joins NSF-Funded Center for Oldest Ice Exploration
The University of Texas at Austin has joined a National Science Foundation-funded center to find the world’s oldest ice in Antarctica – 1.5-million-year-old ice that…
Read MoreSeptember 7, 2021
Austin Partners with UT to give City Lakes a Health Checkup
The waters of Austin’s city lakes are enjoyed by millions each year, but years of urban development and weather extremes are taking their toll. Now,…
Read MoreJuly 22, 2021
Top Geology Award Goes to Ian Dalziel of the Jackson School of Geosciences
Ian W.D. Dalziel, a professor in the Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded the Geological Society of…
Read MoreJune 29, 2021
UT Austin Teams Up With City and Community to Fight Extreme Heat in Austin
Austin has hot summers. But that heat isn’t felt the same way across the city, as anyone who has sweltered in a parking lot or…
Read MoreJanuary 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,…
Read MoreJanuary 1, 2021
Greenland ‘Knickpoints’ Could Stall Spread of Glacial Thinning
The jagged terrain of Greenland’s mountains is protecting some of the island’s outlet glaciers from warm coastal waters, according to a team of researchers that…
Read MoreNovember 12, 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 Ni.o in the Indian Ocean,…
Read MoreNovember 12, 2020
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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