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Zurich-based scientist Sonia Seneviratne says she may no longer contribute to UN climate panel assessment reports because she's frustrated policy makers continue to fail to act on the research and conclusions.

  Climate change is expanding Antarcticas sea ice, according to a scientific study in the journal Nature Geoscience. The paradoxical phenomenon is thought to be caused by relatively cold plumes of fresh water derived from melting beneath the Antarctic ice shelves. This melt water has a relatively low density, so it accumulates in the top layer of the ocean. The cool surface waters then re-freeze more easily during Autumn and Winter. This explains the observed peak in sea ice during these seaso...

UpdatedThu, Apr 1, 2021 at 10:27 am ET Replies(3) (Shutterstock) OLD BRIDGE, NJ —Marshy areas such as Old Bridge, Cape May and Leeds Point are seeing the fastest sea-level rise along the entire coast of New Jersey, even faster than sea levels are rising in New York City, according to a new Rutgers study published March 23 in Nature Communications. The study was led by scientists Jennifer Walker and Robert Kopp at the Rutgers Institute of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences. The Rutgers stud...

POLITICO ‘Garbage’ models and black boxes? The science of climate disaster planning Scientists warn that the data may be too unreliable to guide the precautions that governments, businesses and retirement fund managers must take in the coming decades. Firefighters set a backfire to protect homes and try to contain a California wildfire. | David McNew/Getty Images Link Copied A new breed of data-crunching consultants has emerged to help big corporations and federal agencies assess the long-t...

Global Warming’s Deadly Combination: Heat and Humidity A new study suggests that large swaths of the tropics will experience dangerous living and working conditions if global warming isn’t limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius. A farmer in Peukan Biluy village in Aceh, Indonesia, part of the region that could become uninhabitable if global temperatures rise too much. Credit...Hotli Simanjuntak/EPA, via Shutterstock March 8, 2021 Here’s one more reason the world should aim to limit wa...

Living with climate catastrophe Illustration: Annelise Capossela/Axios From stronger storms to Arctic warming to California fires, rising atmospheric carbon levels mean theres no escaping the fallout from global warming. Now, were plunged into a new world of managing the consequences. Why it matters: Some regions will require power grids more prepared for extreme heat and cold. But the needs go far beyond power systems to building codes, workplace regulations and design and placement of infrast...

Climate collision Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY Published 11:02 am UTC Jan. 18, 2021 As he steps into office this week, President-elect Joe Biden brings an ambitious plan to address climate change, and with Democrats in control of Congress for the first time in a decade, he may have the opportunity to accomplish some of his loftiest goals. “It’s enormous,” said Susan Glickman, Florida director of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, one of many climate advocates, scientists and concer...

Biden’s climate crusade: How his plan to cut carbon emissions, create jobs could impact U.S. Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY © Illustration: Andrea Brunty, USA TODAY Network, and Getty Images Biden’s climate crusade: Big on ideas, short on detail. How Biden’s plan to cut carbon emissions and put people to work could impact you. As he steps into office this week, President-elect Joe Biden brings an ambitious plan to address climate change, and with Democrats in control of...

Credit: Rutgers University Robert Kopp is a professor at Rutgers University–New Brunswick and director of the Rutgers Institute of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences. The incoming Biden administration needs to rebuild the federal government’s capacity to respond to the climate crisis after four years of denial by the Trump administration, a leading climate scientist from Rutgers University urged. And the federal government must help universities advise communities on how to manage the e...

Cedar Rapids Robert "Bob" Walter Kopp, 93, passed away on Jan. 6, 2021, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Bob was born in Madison, Wis., to Walter and Hildegard Kopp on Jan. 22, 1927. He grew up in Madison. While in high school, he met a young woman at the florist shop where they both worked, but he was very shy. After graduating from high school, he enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corp and served in Germany at the end of World War II. He returned home, attended the University of Wisconsin majoring in en...