| Hailstorms Cost Americans Billions. It's Probably Going to Get Worse
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 BOULDER, Colo. – Severe storms cause tens of billions of dollars in property damage each year. And that cost will likely go up in the coming years thanks in large part to hailstorms. Climate scientists, meteorologists and insurance experts gathered at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) here in Boulder, Colorado, this week for a three-day workshop to discuss how climate change affects these storms and brainstorm how to better detect and forecast them. "It looks like 20
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| Greenpeace Ranks Supermarkets on Sustainable Seafood, Plastic Use
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| The 10th edition of Greenpeace's Carting Away the Oceans report found that grocery retailers across the U.S. have vastly improved on providing sustainable seafood, while failing to take significant action on the growing problem of single-use plastics. Overall, 90 percent of the retailers profiled received passing scores, 10 years after they all failed the first assessment. Whole Foods, Hy-Vee, ALDI and Target ranked as the top four retailers this year, while Trader Joe's dropped the furthest, seven spots since Greenpeace's last report. Whole Foods remains the top ranked retailer this year following the implementation of a strong shelf-stable tuna policy and marked sourcing improvements. Hy-Vee placed second, achieved high marks for its advocacy and transparency initiatives. ALDI moved into the top three for the first time ever, buoyed by new policies to address problem practices like transshipment at sea, which is linked to illegal fishing and human rights abuses. Target moved into the top four following ...
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| Diving robots find Antarctic winter seas exhale surprising amounts of carbon dioxide
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 A new study led by the University of Washington uses data gathered by floating drones in the Southern Ocean over past winters to learn how much carbon dioxide is transferred by the surrounding seas. Results show that in winter the open water nearest the sea ice surrounding Antarctica releases significantly more carbon dioxide than previously believed.
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| Abnormal Heat For Next Four Years, New Model Predicts
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| From California to Switzerland and south to Australia, a global rash of heat waves have scorched our planet in recent weeks, exacerbating drought and wildfires. So, you may want to pour yourself a cold glass of water before you read this. New long term forecasts suggest the next four years will be unusually warm with higher chances of extreme temps, according to research published Tuesday in Nature Communications. The study, authored by a pair of European climate scientists, uses sta
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| Ancient Nuclear Waste Is Teaching Us About Radioactive Storage Today
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 There are 99 nuclear reactors currently operating in the United States. The power they generate is free of carbon dioxide emissions, but as a byproduct, they also generate small amounts of nuclear waste in the form of depleted uranium. Even after the uranium in the fuel reactors is spent, or depleted, it remains radioactive, and that means storing it is difficult. Controversy over a permanent storage facility deep within Yucca Mountain in Nevada has left most of reactor waste stored on-si
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| Next-generation coastal risk models
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| Next-generation coastal risk models, Published online: 13 August 2018; doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0262-2 Large-scale coastal flood risk models are evolving to include more physical processes. New research utilizing these models suggests that we face a tremendous challenge in limiting future flood risk.
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