
Warming Predictions Point to Need for Adaption as well as Decarbonization
other extremes. This study suggests that, even in the best case scenario, we are very likely to experience conditions that are more severe than what we've been dealing with recently," said Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability climate scientist Noah Diffenbaugh, who co-authored the study with Colorado State University climate scientist Elizabeth Barnes.For the new study, Diffenbaugh and Barnes trained an AI system to predict how high global temperatures could climb, depending on the pace of decarbonization. They trained the AI with temperature and greenhouse gas data from vast archives of climate

Arctic Sea Ice Could Reach Turning Point by 2027
The first summer on record that melts practically all of the Arctic’s sea ice, an ominous milestone for the planet, could occur as early as 2027.That’s according to an international research team, including University of Colorado Boulder climatologist Alexandra Jahn and Céline Heuzé from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. The team used computer models to predict when the first ice-free day could occur in the northernmost ocean.When the Arctic Ocean has less than 1 million square kilometers of ice, scientists say the Arctic is ice free.In September, the National Snow and

New Discoveries: Three Tiny Species Added to South Africa’s Spectacular Marine Life
, a science and storytelling initiative in Cape Town by the Sea Change Project. It was described and named, meaning scientifically proven to be new, by local researchers from the universities of Stellenbosch and Cape Town, and experts from Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History and the University of Colorado Boulder.The rare and miniature isopodFinally, the third new species is Pseudionella pumulaensis. This is a parasitic isopod – a tiny crustacean.It was discovered in Pumula, KwaZulu-Natal, a region known for its high biodiversity. This isopod has a rather sinister survival strategy: it attaches

Arctic Sea Ice Reaches Seventh Lowest Extent on Record
Arctic sea ice has likely reached its minimum extent for the year, at 4.28 million square kilometers (1.65 million square miles) on September 11, 2024, according to scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado Boulder.The 2024 minimum is ranked seventh lowest in the 46-year satellite record. The last 18 years are the lowest 18 Arctic sea ice extents in the satellite record.The overall, downward trend in the minimum extent from 1979 to 2024 is 12.4 percent per decade relative to the 1981 to 2010 average. From the linear trend, the loss of sea ice is about 77

Where Are the Hurricanes? Quiet Atlantic Bucks Forecast for 'Super' Season
development.The reason for this dryness is not completely clear, but one idea is linked with the Indian Ocean’s version of El Nino/La Nina. That circulation unexpectedly fell out of a very warm phase mid-year, which may have ushered in the recent bout of dry air over the Atlantic.Forecasters at Colorado State University this week offered another angle, basically explaining that waters in the area where Atlantic hurricanes form may have become too warm for their own good, as their interaction with cooler waters near the equator may have pushed the favorable, moist air mass too far north.Not only

$100 Million Boost for NOAA’s High-Performance Computing: Introducing Rhea
modular data centers to be added, further enhancing NOAA’s HPC capabilities for both federal and private sector partners.Once operational, Rhea will join NOAA’s existing Research and Development High-Performance Computing System, which includes four other HPC centers located in Boulder, Colorado; Princeton, New Jersey; Oak Ridge, Tennessee; and Starkville, Mississippi. The addition of Rhea will increase NOAA’s R&D HPC capacity to approximately 43 petaflops, with another system at NESCC pushing the total to around 48 petaflops. A petaflop represents one thousand trillion operations

TCarta Plans Bathymetric Mapping Workshop for Jamaica
depth data from multispectral Sentinel-2 satellite imagery and use NASA ICESat-2 LiDAR data for validation. The resulting data sets will include water depth measurements at 10-meter resolution to an average depth of 20 meters.“The 2024 workshop will be led by hydrographers from TCarta’s Colorado and Jamaica offices,” said Goodrich. “We hope to hold similar SDB coastal mapping workshops in other Caribbean locations later this year and are actively seeking partnerships with hydrographic agencies in the region.&rdquo

System Built for Mars Operations Used for Offshore Methane Emissions Detection
.The TLDAS technology was first developed by NASA’s JPL to look for evidence of microbial life and was extremely sensitive to methane enhancements. It has since been adapted for use across the energy sector and has been validated by the Methane Emissions Technology Evaluation Centre (METEC) in Colorado.Brendan Smith, SeekOps Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, said: “With political, environmental and social pressures building, oil and gas operators are searching for ways to effectively reduce methane emissions. This forward-thinking solution combines two cutting-edge pieces of technology

A Warm Ocean 'Blob' Is Causing Chile's Megadrought
recently seen in Syria."The fact that a swathe of warm water, even one spanning more than 8 million kilometers, could impact conditions thousands of kilometers away in Chile shows how broadly climate change will affect the planet, said ocean and climate scientist Dillon Amaya at the University of Colorado in Boulder."We need to be cognizant of the changes that are happening in global climate thousands of miles away," Amaya said. "It's all connected."(Reporting by Cassandra Garrison; Editing by Lisa Shumaker