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Under Arctic Ice, Photographer Captures Climate Shifts In Earth’s Most Rapidly Changing Place
Posted by Weather Channel: Terrell Johnson on December 24th, 2013
Weather Channel: What does the future hold for the parts of the world that will be most affected by Earth's warming climate? This spring and summer, St. Louis-based photojournalist Randall Hyman spent four months getting a preview in Arctic Norway, a place he's visited again and again since the mid-1970s.
What struck him most on this trip, a Fulbright Scholarship project between April and August, was a pace of change that "has really picked up in the last decade," Hyman said, since trips he made there in 2006...
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More Heat Waves, Drought, Sea Level Rise In Store For Southeast U.S.: Report
Posted by Weather Channel: Terrell Johnson on November 14th, 2013
Weather Channel: Southerners will see more drought, longer and more severe heat waves, and poorer air quality over the next 20 years and beyond, according to a new report on the impact of climate change in the Southeastern U.S.
Titled Climate of the Southeast United States: Variability, Change, Impacts and Vulnerability, the report is part of the U.S. National Climate Assessment and comes billed as the "most comprehensive look to date" at climate-related impacts across an 11-state region that stretches from the...
Climate Change Warning: 20 Cities With The Most To Lose From Rising Seas
Posted by Weather Channel: Terrell Johnson on August 26th, 2013
Weather Channel: Coastal cities around the world face a two-pronged problem: On one hand, there's a march of migration toward the coasts as people increasingly leave rural areas and move into urban areas, in search of better jobs and education.
On the other, global sea levels are steadily rising, even as the construction of big buildings and the extraction of groundwater puts pressure on the land, a phenomenon called subsidence that's being viewed with increasing alarm in places from Louisiana to Indonesia.
And...