Droughts are threatening global wetlands: new study
Credit: Luke Mosley University of Adelaide scientists have shown how droughts are threatening the health of wetlands globally. Published in ...
Tag: Hydrology/Water Resources
The Colorado river’s water supply is predictable owing to long-term ocean memory
Scientists develop new tool to forecast drought and water flow in the Colorado riverCredit: Photo by Stephen Walker A team ...
Climate projection research may help to battle ‘snail fever’ worldwide
Credit: Stony Brook University STONY BROOK, NY, October 8, 2020 - Projections of temperatures and precipitation amounts in climate change ...
Sea-level rise projections can improve with state-of-the-art model
New ice-sheet 'emulator' focuses on Antarctica, Rutgers research showsCredit: Ted Scambos/NSIDC Projections of potentially dramatic sea-level rise from ice-sheet melting ...
NOAA grant advances UToledo research into Lake Erie bacteria that destroys algal toxins
Project is aimed at developing new technologies to ensure clean drinking waterCredit: The University of Toledo Searching for new ways ...
Coastal flooding will disproportionately impact 31 million people globally
Study is first to assess the impact of climate change on the global population of river deltasCredit: Photo by Eduardo ...
Tweaks to land-based conservation efforts would pay huge freshwater ecosystem dividends
Credit: Rede Amazo?nia Sustanta?vel (6) CORVALLIS, Ore. - Conservation projects aimed at protecting land-dwelling species could net major gains in ...
USask water scientist honored with prestigious international lifetime achievement award
Credit: Steve Anderson SASKATOON - University of Saskatchewan (USask) hydrologist Jay Famiglietti has been awarded the 2020 Hydrologic Sciences Award ...
Researchers use satellite imaging to map groundwater use in California’s central valley
Satellite data reveal variability in intensity of groundwater use for different crops, a boon for irrigation policymaking across the stateCredit: ...
How a toxic chromium species could form in drinking water
Credit: Adapted from Environmental Science & Technology 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c03922 The water crisis in Flint, Michigan, brought much-needed attention to ...
New fire containment research addresses risk and safety
Credit: Karina Puikkonen As 2020 has shown, wildfire frequency, size and severity is threatening communities and natural resources across the ...
Redefining drought in the US corn belt
Credit: Hyungsuk Kimm, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - As the climate trends warmer and drier, global food security increasingly ...
More accurate modelling of climate change impacts on water resources
Database comprising 14,425 North American watershedsCredit: Lino Cipresso To better document the repercussions of climate change on regional water resources, ...
Princeton researchers join $1M NSF effort to model nation’s groundwater
Credit: (Image by Alex Hu from Pixabay) Researchers from Princeton will help lead a $1 million project funded by the ...
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