Lamar Smith, for the Express-News Sunday, May 6, 2018 Robotic fish like Sofi, unveiled by MIT scientists, could be essential to protect marine life threatened by human activity and climate change. […]
El Nino may see Maputo facing Cape-style water crisis
Mozambique’s capital Maputo could follow Cape Town’s water crisis with the El Nino phenomenon in the Pacific Ocean which is responsible for the current drought in southern Africa effecting Mozambique this […]
Fleet of sailboat drones could monitor climate change’s effect on oceans
Carrying a suite of 15 instruments, saildrones 1005 and 1006 started their Pacific journey last September from Alameda, California. JENNIFER KEENE, UW/JISAO AND NOAA PMEL By Paul Voosen Two 7-meter-long sailboats are set […]
New Atmosphere Publication! “What Does It Mean to Be El Niño Ready?”
Michael H. Glantz et al. Published: 7 March 2018 Abstract Once an El Niño event has been forecast, government warnings and news headlines highlight the need for society to get ready for […]
Day Zero on the back of drought in Southern Africa: Lessons for the future
Dhesigen Naidoo Cape Town has become the latest poster child of drought in the Southern African region. The dramatic declaration of Day Zero—the date on which the taps are turned off—has caught the […]
Scientists discover new link to El Niño
January 31, 2018 Variations in Arctic stratospheric ozone can affect the tropospheric climate at middle-to-high latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere and all the way down to the tropics, according to researchers in China. […]
Corals thrive on remotest islands in the Galápagos
BY GREG ASNER AND CLARE LEDUFF ON 31 JANUARY 2018 Our first reef community stop in the Reefscape project was the Galápagos Islands in December 2017. We found that ocean events such as El […]