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Climate Change Could Have Helped Dinosaurs Migrate from South America to Greenland

A new article has refined the estimates of when herbivorous or plant-eating dinosaurs could have crossed North America on a northerly journey to reach Greenland, and pointed out an interesting climatic occurrence that could have aided these animals along the voyage.

16 Feb 2021

Sponges, Other Animals Discovered Deep Beneath Antarctic Ice Shelves

A new study published recently in the Frontiers in Marine Science journal reports that there is more life than predicted far beneath the Antarctic ice shelves.

16 Feb 2021

Sea Level Data Confirms Climate Modeling Projections Were Right

Projections of rising sea levels this century are on the money when tested against satellite and tide-gauge observations, scientists find.

16 Feb 2021

More Intense Extreme Events, Reduced Precipitation Predicted for Eastern Alps

According to a new study, future climate scenarios for the Eastern Alps indicate less intense mean daily precipitation and more intense, localized extreme events.

15 Feb 2021

UMCES Researchers Receive Fulbright Scholarships to Study Environmental Challenges

University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) Associate Professor Lora Harris and Ph.D. candidate Christina Goethel have been named Fulbright Scholars for 2021-2022. Harris will use her award to work in Finland on questions of estuarine ecology, and Goethel will use her award to support post-doctoral research and teaching in Iceland.

15 Feb 2021

Rising Ocean Temperatures Could Predict Hurricane Intensity Around Bermuda

New research shows that hurricane maximum wind speeds in the subtropical Atlantic around Bermuda have more than doubled on average over the last 60 years due to rising ocean temperatures in the region.

15 Feb 2021

Report Highlights the Need to Deal with Low-Carbon Transition Risks Seriously

On February 19, the world's second-largest greenhouse gas emitter, the United-States, will rejoin the Paris Agreement. This will kickstart a year of intensifying policy activity ahead of the United Nations Climate Change conference (COP26) in November, when countries will re-commit to their emissions reduction goals.

12 Feb 2021

Climate Scientists Study the Rapid Formation of Iodic Particles Over the Arctic

More than two thirds of the earth is covered by clouds. Depending on whether they float high or low, how large their water and ice content is, how thick they are or over which region of the Earth they form, it gets warmer or cooler underneath them.

12 Feb 2021

Reduction in CFC-11 Emissions Puts Recovery of Stratospheric Ozone Layer Back on Track

A potent ozone-depleting chemical whose emissions unexpectedly spiked in recent years has quickly dropped back to much lower levels, putting the recovery of the stratospheric ozone layer back on track, according to a new study by scientists at MIT, the University of Bristol, and other institutions in South Korea, the U.S., Japan, Australia, and Switzerland.

11 Feb 2021

Climate Change may Increase Flooding in the Columbia River Basin

The Columbia River basin will see an increase in flooding over the next 50 years as a result of climate change, new modeling from Oregon State University indicates.

11 Feb 2021