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Tree Rings Reveal Hurricane Impacts and Emerging Sea-Level Stress in Coastal Forests
New research suggests that trees largely recover from storms within two years, and that coastal trees may be stressed from sea-level rise.
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This is a pretty bad headline. Prudhoe dome melted 7000 years ago. The Greenland ice cap did not. There are…
such an interesting and thorough read! As someone still trying to learn about the historical implications of climate colonialism and…
Media Highlights
- A 2024 study published in the Journal of Climate by researchers from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University used advanced computer modeling to simulate super-eruptions like Toba….
- “Prices will probably remain at a relatively high level” through at least the middle of the year, said Anne-Sophie Corbeau, a global research scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University. Those […]
- It’s clear that taking action to prevent such disasters doesn’t hurt the economy as a whole, said Gernot Wagner, a climate economist at Columbia Business School, but it does hurt some industries — namely, oil […]
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