Rome (AFP) Oct 28, 2021 Sicily braced for the arrival of a cyclone Thursday, the second this week after a deadly storm hammered the southern Italian island, killing three people. The Mediterranean cyclone known as a “medicane” was set to reach Sicily’s eastern coast and the tip of mainland Calabria between Thursday evening and Friday morning, Italian public research institute ISPRA said. The civil protection … Continue reading Sicily braces for second cyclone this week

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 28, 2021 The 2021 Antarctic ozone hole reached its maximum area on Oct. 7 and ranks 13th-largest since 1979, scientists from NASA and NOAA reported today. This year’s ozone hole developed similarly to last year’s: A colder than usual Southern Hemisphere winter led to a deep and larger-than-average ozone hole that will likely persist into November or early December. “This is … Continue reading Antarctic Ozone Hole will persist into November 2021

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 27, 2021 After a successful test run in May, a NASA campaign is deploying aircraft, a research vessel and several kinds of autonomous ocean robots to study small ocean whirlpools, eddies and currents. Using instruments at sea and in the sky, the Sub-Mesoscale Ocean Dynamics Experiment (S-MODE) team aims to understand the role these ocean processes play in vertical transport, the … Continue reading NASA’s S-MODE mission kicks off 1st deployment

Paris (AFP) Oct 28, 2021 From his perch 400 kilometres above Earth, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet has had a unique perspective on the climate-fuelled natural disasters that have swept the planet over the past six months. Pesquet recently finished up his second mission at the International Space Station, an experience that made him appreciate Earth’s fragility like never before. He spoke to AFP ahead of … Continue reading ‘Never seen anything like it’: astronaut on 2021 climate disasters

New York (AFP) Oct 27, 2021 A powerful coastal storm knocked down trees and left more than 600,000 homes without power in the northeastern United States on Wednesday. The state of Massachusetts was the hardest hit, with 495,000 homes without power as of 9:00 am (1300 GMT), according to the poweroutage.us website. The National Weather Service called the situation dangerous and warned of hurricane-type gusts … Continue reading Over 600,000 homes without power in eastern US due to storm

London (AFP) Oct 28, 2021 From Death Valley to the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent to sub-Saharan Africa, global warming has already made daily life unbearable for millions of people. And if nothing is done to slow climate change, the record temperatures and deadly heatwaves it brings will only get worse, experts warn. “Climate (change) is sort of steroids for the weather. It’s loading the … Continue reading World faces growing threat of ‘unbearable’ heatwaves

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 26, 2021 OpenET uses publicly available data to provide satellite-based information on evapotranspiration (the “ET” in OpenET). The primary satellite dataset for OpenET is from the Landsat program, a partnership between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The most recent satellite in the program, Landsat 9, successfully launched on Sept. 27, 2021. Evapotranspiration is the process through whttp://dlvr.it/SBNQZ9 Continue reading OpenET: A satellite-based water data resource

Paris (AFP) Oct 27, 2021 A yellow streak representing high concentrations of methane, a dangerous greenhouse gas, is visible over southern Iraq on a map produced by Kayrros, a French firm that uses satellites to track leaks from fossil fuel facilities. The source of the immense leak discovered in 2019 was never officially confirmed – and it is only one of many. The satellite map … Continue reading Satellites used to track methane leaks in climate fight

San Diego CA (SPX) Oct 26, 2021 University of California San Diego Physics Professor Tom Murphy is among five authors of an essay, appearing in the November 2021 issue of the journal Energy Research and Social Science, that cautions current levels of worldwide economic growth, energy use and resource consumption will overshoot Earth’s finite limits. The essay, “Modernity is Incompatible with Planetary Limits: Developinghttp://dlvr.it/SBNQYS Continue reading UC San Diego physicist helps launch national network examining Earth’s planetary limits

Madrid, Spain (SPX) Oct 26, 2021 The human occupation of the Azores Islands began 700 years earlier than the onset of Portuguese settlement of the island, which as historical documents indicate, was in the 15th century. This is the main conclusion of new research conducted by an international multidisciplinary team of scientists with the participation of the CSIC. The study published in the journal PNAS, … Continue reading The colonization of the Azores began 700 years prior to the Portuguese arrival