Richard Aster News Today

Our changing climate is creating bigger and bigger storms. And with those bigger storms are coming bigger ocean waves. It's not a good thing, either.

By Richard Aster, Colorado State University | - As oceans waves rise and fall, they apply forces to the sea …

Storm Ciarán pounded England's Newhaven Lighthouse and harbor wall on Nov. 4, 2023. AP Photo/Kin CheungAs oceans waves rise and fall, they apply forces to the sea floor below and generate seismic waves. These seismic waves are so powerful and widespread that they show up as a steady thrum on seismographs, the same instruments used to monitor and study earthquakes. That wave signal has been getting more intense in recent decades, reflecting increasingly stormy seas and higher ocean swel...

Wavvy Waves off of California's Pacific coast have been getting demonstrably bigger, even in the winter — and scientists were able to use a trove of non-digitized records to figure out what's going on there. As the San Francisco Chronicle reports, a new study out of UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography looked at decades […]

Making sense of rare, possibly related adverse events after vaccination can be notoriously tricky, but in this case, U.S. health officials have a blueprint.