The North Carolina Climate Office has been posting recaps of the years in the 2010’s on Twitter and their blog in the last two weeks. Today’s version includes the full decade including a first look at 2019. You can read it at http://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=307&h=5666e5c1.
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The Earth Institute at Columbia University posted a story this week which discussed a new study about how climate change is affecting the Corn Belt in the United States. There are two main effects: the first is that warming temperatures are increasing the rates of evaporation of soil moisture, leading…
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As a scientist I am fascinated by stories about how our current earth developed over time. Here is a great story I saw today on Facebook from The Guardian describing a new fossil find of a forest that is dated as about 386 million years old. This was before modern…
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With just a couple of weeks to go in the year, 2019 looks like it will be the warmest on record for some cities like Savannah, Key West, Macon, Wilmington and Atlanta, especially because they are already at record-setting levels with warmer than normal weather expected through the end of…
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Here is a new atlas that describes a lot of factors related to agriculture, land use, and population density, among other factors, across the United States. While it was developed for use in the “Green New Deal”, even if you don’t think that is a feasible plan for dealing with…
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Vox.com had an interesting story map last week on three important tree species that provide a hedge against catastrophic climate change across the world. They are the brazil nut tree from the Amazon rain forest, the stilt mangrove from Indonesia, and the African teak tree in the Congo rain forest. …
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One of the most effective ways of producing crops year after year is to provide irrigation to make sure the plants have enough moisture to germinate, grow and yield good crops. Sometimes it only takes a few inches of rain a year, applied at the right time, to get your…
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