San Francisco Bay just installed a network of thermal cameras to track gray whales in real time — not because anyone wanted to build a marine surveillance grid, but because whale ship collisions have become routine enough to warrant one. Last year alone, 21 dead gray whales washed up in…
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New Orleans Relocation Isn’t a Maybe Anymore — It’s a When
A new study landed this week with the kind of bluntness that climate research usually avoids: New Orleans needs to start relocating now. Not in a decade. Not after the next hurricane. Now. The paper — published in Nature Sustainability — doesn’t hedge. Southern Louisiana has crossed “the point of…
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Ancient Eruptions Tanked the AMOC in Years, Not Centuries — And Carbon Emissions Are Next in Line
Another month, another study warning that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation — the oceanic conveyor belt keeping northern Europe from turning into Siberia — is more fragile than anyone wants to admit. This time, researchers at Texas A&M dug into sediment records dating to 12,900 years ago and found that…