Scientists ponder fighting climate change by making clouds brighter and thicker Scientists keep studying creative ways to reduce global warming, and on Wednesday they highlighted another possibility: Making clouds over the oceans thicker and brighter. This would involve a fleet of ships, which would crisscross vast stretches of the world’s oceans, spraying seawater up into…
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Record California storm fueled by bomb cyclone, El Niño, climate change
The powerful storm that walloped California over the past two days delivered record-breaking rains, feet of mountain snow and damaging winds. Atmospheric river slams Southern California, then stalls Atmospheric river slams Southern California, then stalls An atmospheric river — a narrow but intense jet of Pacific Ocean moisture — parked itself over the Los Angeles…
Climate change is hastening valley fever’s spread across the American West – Washington Post
A flesh-eating fungus is expanding its range in the American West – and scientists suspect climate change is driving the spread SHAFTER, CA – September 21: Erik McIntyre, who was disabled by coccidioidomycosis, poses for a portrait at the Golden Living Center in Shafter, CA on September 21, 2023. Valley Fever, or coccidioidomycosis, is a…
Seal and robot discovered potential climate change disaster at glacier – The Washington Post
Scientists tagged a southern elephant seal on the island of Kerguelen, an extraordinarily remote spot in the far southern Indian Ocean, in 2011. The seal was a male close to 11 feet long weighing nearly 1,800 pounds, and they fitted his head with an ocean sensor, a device that these massive seals barely notice but…
