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A climate center now based in Geneva, Switzerland, is relocating this fall to the campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

A climate center now based in Geneva, Switzerland, is relocating this fall to the campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Temperatures will average out near normal for this week, with wide swings from the 50s down to the teens, but no accumulating snow is in the extended forecast.

A new report published today by a team of 20 researchers representing four UMass system campuses provides insight into the various climate resilience approaches being undertaken by municipalities across Massachusetts.

By gregladen on December 15, 2015. In November, I wrote a post describing research on Antarctic glacial melting by Catherine Ritz, Tamsin Edwards, Gaël Durand, Antony Payne, Vincent Peyaud, and Richard Hindmarsh (“Potential sea-level rise from Antarctic ice-sheet instability constrained by observations”). I had asked one of the authors, Tamsin Edwards, to address a few questions about the study. I also asked glacier expert Richard Alley a few questions. Alley got back to m...

Nathaniel B. Palmer, a 308-foot-long icebreaker operated by the National Science Foundation. I had dubbed the Florida-sized slab of ice its nickname in an article I’d written a few years earlier, and the name stuck. Nevertheless, I was unprepared for how spooky it would be to actually confront the 100-foot-tall wall of ice from the deck of a ship. Locked up here in the West Antarctic ice sheet was enough water to raise global sea levels nearly 10 feet. As I wrote in a dispatch from Antarcti...

Why I’m Thinking About the Sixties (the 2060s) In February 2020, I traveled to New York to celebrate a zeroth birthday and an 80th birthday. First, I saw a close friend’s baby, who had been born only a month earlier. The next day, I went to my grandmother’s birthday party at a crowded Italian restaurant near Times Square. I would say that this experience made me think about aging and what the alleged Soviet spy Alger Hiss (of all people) called “the Great Span”: the way that seemingly...

Rolling Stone Antarctica’s Doomsday Glacier: How Doomed Are We? Two new papers offer radically different predictions of the glacier’s future — and thus for the future of low-lying cities around the world. Here’s how to understand the divergent projections By Jeff Goodell I came face to face with the Doomsday Glacier (a.k.a. Thwaites glacier) in 2019, on a trip to Antarctica aboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer, a 308-foot-long icebreaker operated by the National Science Fo...

May 6, 2021 Two new studies showing that if you are uncertain about what is exactly going on in Antarctica, and what it means for long term sea level, you are pretty much keeping up with the science. Scientists struggling to understand the threat of sea level rise on a warming Earth found Wednesday that amid lingering uncertainty, this much is clear: Meeting the goals of the Paris climate agreement remains humanity’s best hope for preserving current coastlines in the 21st century. At the same...

1.5C warming cap could halve sea level rise from melting ice AFP 3 hrs ago AFP © MARIO TAMA Since 1993, melting land ice has contributed to at least half of global sea level rise Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius could halve how much sea levels rise due to melting ice sheets this century, according to a major new study modelling how Earths frozen spaces will respond to ever-increasing greenhouse gas emissions. © Jonathan WALTER Sea level rise under different...