Jennifer Francis – Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences
Sea Level Rise Could Reach 50 Feet by 2300, Devastating Coastal Cities Globally
Robert Kopp – Institute of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Jupiter and Venus Are Shifting Earth’s Orbit Every 405,000 Years
Dennis Kent – Institute of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
New Invasive Tick Species Discovered in U.S. Has Experts Concerned
Andrea Egizi – Department of Entomology
If the Hot Rock Swelling Under New England Is a Volcano, the Region Is Less Stable Than Scientists Thought
Vadim Levin – Institute of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Will North Korea’s Kim Jong Un Destroy the Environment With His Nuclear Bombs?
Alan Robock – Department of Environmental Sciences
A Huge Blob of Hot Rock Has Been Rising Under Vermont for Tens of Millions of Years
Vadim Levin – Institute of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Volcanic Eruptions Can Cool the Planet, But They Won’t Save Us From Climate Change
Alan Robock – Department of Environmental Sciences
Climate Change Is Driving Lobsters out of New England
OceanAdapt, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences
We Have No Way to Predict the Unintended Consequences of Geoengineering
The historic agreement forged in Paris among 195 countries in December holds the promise of triggering a global shift to combat climate change – and harbors a hidden warning. Rutgers climate scientist Alan Robock has argued that trials in the atmosphere won’t show a significant climate response, “unless an experiment is so large as to actually be geoengineering” and lasts at least a decade. (Experimenters would need to confirm that any changes in climate were not just coincidental.)
