Alan Robock – Department of Environmental Sciences
Atlantic City and Miami Beach: two takes on tackling the rising waters
Ben Horton – Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences
Airpocalypse’ smog events in China linked to melting ice cap, research reveals
Jennifer Francis – Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences
Arctic ice melt ‘already affecting weather patterns where you live right now’
The dramatic melting of Arctic ice is already driving extreme weather that affects hundreds of millions of people across North America, Europe and Asia, leading climate scientists have told the Guardian… In November, ice levels hit a record low, and we are now in “uncharted territory”, said Prof Jennifer Francis, an Arctic climate expert at Rutgers University in the US, who first became interested in the region when she sailed through it on a round-the-world trip in the 1980s. “These rapid changes in the Arctic are affecting weather patterns where you live right now,” she said. “In the past you have had natural variations like El Niño, but they have never happened before in combination with this very warm Arctic, so it is a whole new ball game. It is inconceivable that this ridiculously warm Arctic would not have an impact on weather patterns in the middle latitudes further south, where so many people live.”
Inside the largest Earth science event: ‘The time has never been more urgent’
Jennifer Francis – Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences
Why Britain could face an exceptionally cold winter
Jennifer Francis – Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences
‘Extraordinarily hot’ Arctic temperatures alarm scientists
Jennifer Francis – Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences
Flint warnings as Atlantic City may be forced into state takeover of water
Daniel J. Van Abs, Department of Human Ecology
Could urban farming provide a much-needed oasis in the Tulsa food desert?
Laura Lawson, Office of Agriculture and Urban Programes at Rutgers University.
Fossilised flower is beautiful, deadly and new to science
It is beautiful, deadly and new to science. And if that is not enough, it has been fossilised in amber for perhaps 30 million years… “The specimens are beautiful, perfectly preserved fossil flowers, which at one point in time were borne by plants that lived in a steamy tropical forest with both large and small trees, climbing vines, grasses and other vegetation,” said George Poinar, of Oregon State University, who with Lena Struwe of Rutgers University, reports in Nature Plants on evolution’s trophy from a distant past. The asterid family embraces an estimated 80,000 species, and one genus within the family is inherently toxic.
