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NYC Will Deploy Temporary Snake-Like Barriers & ‘Tiger Dams’ to prevent flooding

As atmospheric warming gallops forward, and as the waters rise all around us, hurricane season poses an increasingly dire threat to NYC. With calamity looming in the near-to-middle future, the city has long-term plans to fortify Manhattan’s lower half to thwart tides and storm ...

Aug. 7, 2019

By US Flood Control Corp.

Visit of delegation of the State Enterprise pitches in Poland.

At the invitation of a ompanii INNOVATOR in February 2020 a delegation of the State Enterprise "pitches" to the Republic of Poland. INNOVATOR is an engineering company that was created by the Institute of Non-Ferrous Metals in Gliwice, for the commercialization of scientific research institute. At the meeting, which took place within the walls of materinskomy Company - Institute of non-ferrous ...

Feb. 25, 2020

By State Enterprise

Himalayan pollution `could impact monsoon cycle`

Researchers have shown that pollution from China, India, Nepal and Pakistan can reach altitudes of over 5,000 metres in the Himalayas, contributing to the warming of the atmosphere and potentially affecting the South-East Asian monsoon cycle. They also found that new aerosol particles — ultrafine particles suspended in the atmosphere — can form at these heights. The ...

Oct. 16, 2008

By SciDev.Net

Satellite imagery shows fragile Wilkins Ice Shelf destabilised

Satellite images show that icebergs have begun to calve from the northern front of the Wilkins Ice Shelf – indicating that the huge shelf has become unstable. This follows the collapse three weeks ago of the ice bridge that had previously linked the Antarctic mainland to Charcot Island. The ice bridge, which effectively formed a barrier pinning back the northern ice front of the central Wilkins ...

Apr. 29, 2009

By European Space Agency (ESA)

TMK Multigrab is here!

Friday 30th of October 2020 at TMK’s Birthdayparty we celebrated the start of our own factory and production a year ago and announced two completely new products. TMK is jumping into a new market with TMK Multigrab. TMK Multigrab is suitable for a wide range of tasks. Demolition grab, sorting grab, root shear, stump puller, rake – you name it! You can read more about TMK Multigrab at ...

Nov. 3, 2020

By TMK Energiakoura Ltd

The warmer the higher: sea-level rise from Filchner-Ronne ice in Antarctica

The more ice is melted of the Antarctic Filchner-Ronne shelf, the more ice flows into the ocean and the more the region contributes to global sea-level rise. While this might seem obvious, it is no matter of course for the huge ice masses of Antarctica: parts of the ice continent are characterized by instabilities that, once triggered, can lead to persistent ice discharge into the ocean even ...

Oct. 5, 2015

By The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)

Climate change means bumpier air travel

Turbulence on transatlantic flights will become more frequent and severe by 2050 as carbon dioxide emissions rise, leading to longer journey times and increased fuel consumption, British scientists say in a new study. Turbulence can happen without warning and is caused by climate conditions such as atmospheric pressure, jet streams, cold and warm fronts or thunderstorms. Light turbulence shakes ...

Apr. 9, 2013

By GLOBE SERIES

Antarctica could raise sea level faster than previously thought

Ice discharge from Antarctica could contribute up to 37 centimeters to the global sea level rise within this century, a new study shows. For the first time, an international team of scientists provide a comprehensive estimate on the full range of Antarctica’s potential contribution to global sea level rise based on physical computer simulations. Led by the Potsdam Institute for Climate ...

Aug. 14, 2014

By The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)

HSM organises the 6th partner conference at Lake Constance

HSM, the German office and environmental technology manufacturer announces the 6th international partner conference at Lake Constance. From 30th June to 2nd July 2010 HSM sales partners from all over the world gather to meet the HSM sales team and HSM senior management. Altogether there were roughly 120 participants from 38 countries who contributed to making this partner conference a great ...

Jul. 28, 2010

By HSM GmbH + Co. KG

Arctic sea ice shrinks to record low

Researchers in the US say that Arctic sea ice has reached a record low winter maximum for the second year running. Data from the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) and the US space agency NASA shows that the sea ice peaked on 24 March at 5.607 million square miles, or 14.52 million square kilometers. This is the lowest maximum since satellite measurements began in 1979. ...

Mar. 30, 2016

By Climate News Network

RTO cleans methane from coal mining

Using a Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer to convert methane into carbon dioxide may prove a deterrent to Global Warming. Everybody's talking about clean coal. Vanishing are the images of smog-filled towns and blackened valleys of soot that made coal a byword for dirty fuel. In fact, like it or not, coal still produces about half of U.S.-produced electricity and about a quarter of the electricity ...

Oct. 15, 2011

By Epcon Industrial Systems, LP

Rising temperatures and acidification in the oceans spell danger for shark populations

Increasing temperatures and rising ocean acidification could reduce the health and survival of young sharks, new research has shown. Bamboo shark embryos incubated under ocean temperatures and acidity predicted for 2100 showed survival rates of 80% compared to 100% survival under present-day conditions. Once hatched, survival measured at 30 days was only 44% for those under predicted climate ...

Dec. 4, 2014

By European Commission, Environment DG

Ocean salinities show an intensified water cycle

The stronger water cycle means arid regions have become drier and high rainfall regions wetter as atmospheric temperature increases. The study, co-authored by CSIRO scientists Paul Durack and Dr Susan Wijffels, shows the surface ocean beneath rainfall-dominated regions has freshened, whereas ocean regions dominated by evaporation are saltier. The paper also confirms that surface warming of the ...

Apr. 15, 2010

By CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Asian Brown Clouds Intensify Global Warming

SAN DIEGO, California, August 1, 2007 (ENS) - Brown clouds of pollution over South Asia have multiplied solar heating of the lower atmosphere by 50 percent, finds new research by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California-San Diego. The combined heating effect of greenhouse gases and the brown clouds is necessary and sufficient to account for the retreat of ...

Aug. 3, 2007

By Environment News Service (ENS)

Climate change brings ill winds for airline industry

Global warming may already be taking its toll of air miles. As jet planes burn fuel and release carbon dioxide, the atmosphere warms and causes head winds to build up. Tail winds do too, but round trip journey times are nevertheless creeping up − and so are fuel costs. A team of US scientists say the cumulative effect of the longer flight times that they think may have resulted from ...

Jul. 14, 2015

By Climate News Network

‘GREEN’ MEDICAL PROPELLANT RECEIVES FDA APPROVAL TO PROCEED TO CLINICAL TRIALS

Koura (previously known as Mexichem Fluor), a pioneer in the development of next generation propellants, today announced FDA approval to proceed to clinical trials with Zephex® 152a. This new medical propellant has been under development for several years for use in metered-dose inhalers (MDIs) for treatment of respiratory disorders such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). ...

Feb. 4, 2020

By Koura

Ocean fertilization `fix` for global warming discredited by new research

Research performed at Stanford and Oregon State Universities suggests that ocean fertilization may not be an effective method of reducing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, a major contributor to global warming. Ocean fertilization, the process of adding iron or other nutrients to the ocean to cause large algal blooms, has been proposed as a possible solution to global warming because the growing ...

Jan. 11, 2008

By Environmental News Network (ENN)

When times are tight, focus on adaptation

In a commentary article in the journal Nature Climate Change, US, Spanish and Australian researchers submit that biologists should, instead, aim to achieve a balance between understanding climate change impacts and planning for the consequences. “There is little point in focussing on fully identifying the climate impacts while losing species,” says co-author Dr Elvira Poloczanska, an ...

Mar. 22, 2011

By CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Combating desertification could help tackle other global crises

While global attention is focused on crises ranging from energy to food security to climate change, a senior United Nations environmental expert highlighted the “silent” crisis of desertification or land degradation, which, if tackled properly, can actually help address these other issues. “The land can be… an opportunity to solve most of the ongoing global crises,” Luc Gnacadja, Executive ...

Oct. 30, 2008

By United Nations

UN official: World failing over climate change

International leaders are failing in their fight against global warming, one of the United Nations' top climate officials said Tuesday, appealing directly to the world's voters to pressure their politicians into taking tougher action against the buildup of greenhouse gases. Halldor Thorgeirsson told journalists gathered at London's Imperial College that world leaders weren't working hard ...

Sep. 17, 2013

By Associated Press

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