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'Unprecedented' Seismic Signal Reveals a 650-Foot Tsunami

Wave became trapped in Greenland's Dickson Fjord last year, researchers find

(Newser) - Thankfully, no one was around to experience a 650-foot-high mega tsunami that sprung up close to a cruise ship route on Greenland's east coast last year, but scientists know it happened based in part on seismic waves. A seismic signal showed that the Earth shook over nine consecutive days...

World's Largest Inland Sea Is Shrinking

Azerbaijan President Aliyev calls it 'catastrophic'

(Newser) - The Caspian Sea is shrinking, with what Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev describes as "catastrophic" consequences. Reuters reports that he brought up the receding sea during a recent meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, where he said the two agreed to analyze the predicament. The Caspian Sea is the largest...

This Could Be the Future of Your Chocolate

As climate change wreaks havoc on traditional crops, companies race to find alternatives

(Newser) - Climate change is stressing rainforests where the highly sensitive cocoa bean grows, but chocolate lovers need not despair, per the AP . Cocoa trees grow about 20 degrees north and south of the equator in regions with warm weather and abundant rain, including West Africa and South America. Climate change is...

Midwest Heat Wave&#39;s Sticky Side Effect: Corn Sweat
Midwest Heat Wave's
Sticky Side Effect: Corn Sweat
the rundown
Aug 31, 2024 3:25 PM CDT

Midwest Heat Wave's Sticky Side Effect: Corn Sweat

Massive crops are releasing moisture amid the heat, increasing humidity

(Newser) - Scientists know it as evapotranspiration. Midwesterners may know it by an earthier term: corn sweat. This week's heat wave in America's Corn Belt has put the term into wider circulation, with scientists explaining how the phenomenon can increase humidity—making a 90-degree day feel like 100 degrees or...

UN Chief's SOS: 'The Ocean Is Overflowing'

Speaking from Tonga, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has a stark warning about climate change

(Newser) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres wants the bucks coming in to fight climate change to go way up in order to make sea levels go down, and he says there's no time to waste. Speaking from Tonga, Guterres called sea-level rise a "worldwide catastrophe" that's specifically endangering Pacific...

In the Future, Cows May Take a Pill to Help the Climate
Scientists Attempting
to Rejigger Cow Stomachs
longform
Aug 26, 2024 9:19 AM CDT

Scientists Attempting to Rejigger Cow Stomachs

Washington Post reports on a gene-editing experiment designed to reduce methane emissions

(Newser) - "It's completely out of the box," University of California at Davis professor Ermias Kebreab tells the Washington Post . "Nobody has done it before." The reference is to an attempt to change the stomachs of cows through gene editing to make them belch less methane, a...

Data Centers Are Wasting Energy on Our Old Memes

An estimated 68% of data is never used again, but it's still sucking up energy

(Newser) - Memes, reply-all emails, and the thousands of photos on our phones typically have our attention momentarily, and are then quickly forgotten. But energy-wise, they very much go on. That's what Ian Hodgkinson, a professor of strategy at Loughborough University, argues to the Guardian . His recent studies on junk data...

Video Captures Outer Banks Home Collapsing Into Ocean

As Hurricane Ernesto brought strong waves to the shore, beach house went down

(Newser) - Homes are collapsing into the ocean in North Carolina at an alarming rate, and the latest dramatic incident was caught on video. A beach house in the Outer Banks community of Rodanthe on Hatteras Island was knocked off its raised wooden foundation as waves, strengthened by Hurricane Ernesto, pounded the...

Las Vegas Nights Are Becoming Dangerously Hot

New York Times explores what's going on

(Newser) - New York is known as the city that never sleeps, but extreme heat is making that title more accurate in Las Vegas. In an interactive story, the New York Times explores how temperatures at night aren't dropping as much in the past—during a record stretch in July, overnight...

Earth's 13-Month Streak of Record-Setting Heat Just Ended

Though this changes nothing when it comes to action needed on climate change, scientists say

(Newser) - Earth's string of 13 straight months with a new average heat record came to an end this past July as the natural El Nino climate pattern ebbed, the European climate agency Copernicus announced Wednesday. But July 2024 's average heat just missed surpassing the July of a year...

Study Warns We Could 'Witness Demise of Natural Wonder'

Authors say record-high ocean heat is putting Great Barrier Reef in danger

(Newser) - In a sea of grim stories about the health and fate of the Great Barrier Reef comes one of the grimmest: "Highest ocean heat in four centuries places Great Barrier Reef in danger." That's the title of a study published Tuesday in Nature . Researchers say they reconstructed...

Airline: Increased Turbulence Means No More Noodles

For economy class passengers, that is

(Newser) - Inflight noodles on Korean Air flights are the latest casualty of increasing turbulence. The airline says it will stop serving instant noodles in economy class after August 15 because "burn incidents occur frequently due to hot water," the BBC reports. "In economy class, flight attendants must move...

Sunday Was the Hottest Day on Earth
Sunday Was the
Hottest Day on Earth
Jul 23, 2024 2:23 PM CDT

Sunday Was the Hottest Day on Earth

Scientists fear the worst is yet to come

(Newser) - Sunday wasn't just hot, it was the hottest day in the planet's recorded history, reports Reuters . Details:
  • The new mark: The average temperature hit 17.09 degrees Celsius, or 62.76 degrees Fahrenheit, as recorded by the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service, per CNN . That eclipses
...

Time Is Running Out for Tribe Facing a Rising Ocean

Quinault Nation has been working to relocate to higher ground for at least a decade

(Newser) - Standing water lies beneath the home Sonny Curley shares with his parents and three children on the Quinault reservation a few steps from the Pacific Ocean in Washington's Olympic Peninsula. The back deck is rotting, and black mold speckles the walls inside, leaving the 46-year-old fisherman feeling drained if...

Climate Change Is Messing With More Than Just Glaciers

Melting ice is slowing Earth's spin, tilting its axis

(Newser) - Not all effects of climate change are visible to the naked eye. According to new research, the melting of glaciers and polar ice sheets through global warming is messing with the Earth's axis of rotation and even its core. "You can add Earth's rotation to this list...

Body of American Lost in 2002 Avalanche Is Found

Ice melt exposed the body of climber William Stampfl in the Peruvian Andes

(Newser) - The remains of an American who lost his life climbing in Peru 22 years ago have been found. William Stampfl, 59, was on the 22,000-foot Huascaran in June 2002 when he was buried in an avalanche; search and rescue efforts were unable to locate him at the time. CBS...

5 Famous US Destinations at Risk From Climate Change

USA Today chronicles how a warming planet threatens iconic locations

(Newser) - As cities on the East Coast sink millimeter by millimeter due to climate change, experts are scrambling to understand what the future holds for land-lovers. USA Today takes a look at some of the iconic coastal attractions in the US that are already being affected by unprecedented flooding, landslides, and...

Alaskan Glaciers Are Melting at &#39;Incredibly Worrying&#39; Pace
Amid Alaskan Glaciers,
a Possible 'Death Spiral'
NEW STUDY
Jul 3, 2024 10:25 AM CDT

Amid Alaskan Glaciers, a Possible 'Death Spiral'

Researchers say Juneau Ice Field saw ice melt in 2010 to 2019 at double the rate it had previously

(Newser) - Since the late 1700s, the Juneau Ice Field, interconnected glaciers that stretch across 1,500 square miles of Alaska and British Columbia, has lost about a quarter of its volume. But it's an "incredibly worrying" phenomenon that took place between 2010 and 2020 that has scientists especially concerned:...

In a Big First, Biden Proposes Heat Rule

It would be the first major federal safety standard addressing heat

(Newser) - President Biden on Tuesday proposed a new rule to address excessive heat in the workplace, warning—as tens of millions of people in the US are under heat advisories—that high temperatures are the country's leading weather-related killer. If finalized, the measure would protect an estimated 36 million US...

Tractor Supply Dumps DEI Efforts After Right-Wing Campaign

Rural retailer nixes DEI roles and cancels Pride events, voter drives, carbon emissions goals

(Newser) - Just last month, Hal Lawton, president and CEO of Tractor Supply, boasted about the company's "very consistent" approach to DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) and environmental efforts, noting that, despite conservative backlash against similar initiatives elsewhere, "We haven't walked away from anything." Now, a "stunning...

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