LifeHacker – “When you’re starting out with a garden, buying enough plants to cover the ground can seem really expensive. Instead, do what the pros do: Cut and plant stems and leaves, divide roots, and use ground layering to grow more of the plants you already have. Aside from the money and trips to the… Continue Reading
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NOAA unveils new U.S. climate ‘normals’ that are warmer than ever
Washington Post – “On Tuesday May 4, 2021, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released an updated set of climate averages for the contiguous United States based on the 30-year period from 1991 to 2020, including more than 9,000 daily reporting stations. It refers to these averages* as “climate normals,” and updates them once every… Continue Reading
Study – Deadly air pollutant ‘disproportionately and systematically’ harms Americans of color
Washington Post – “Nearly every source of the nation’s most pervasive and deadly air pollutant disproportionately affects Americans of color, regardless of their state or income level, according to a study published Wednesday. The analysis of fine-particle matter, which includes soot, shows how decisions made decades ago about where to build highways and industrial plants… Continue Reading
13th Annual Tree Report Card
The State of DC’s Trees 2020: “The Tree Report Card is Casey Trees’ annual evaluation of DC’s urban forest. It looks at where our successes have been over the past year and highlights where improvements can be made. This year, Casey Trees is pleased to announce that the District received an overall grade of A.… Continue Reading
Rare chunks of Earth’s mantle found exposed in Maryland
National Geographic – “The set of rocks strewn throughout Baltimore likely represent a slice of prehistoric seafloor from a now-vanished ocean…Standing among patches of muddy snow on the outskirts of Baltimore, Maryland, I bent down to pick up a piece of the planet that should have been hidden miles below my feet. On that chilly… Continue Reading
Climate change and the 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals
Climate.gov: “As soon as the 2021 New Year’s celebrations were over, the calls and questions started coming in from weather watchers: When will NOAA release the new U.S. Climate Normals? The Normals are 30-year averages of key climate observations made at weather stations and corrected for bad or missing values and station changes over time.… Continue Reading
Climate Change Risk Disclosures and the Securities and Exchange Commission
CRS report – Climate Change Risk Disclosures and the Securities and Exchange Commission, April 20 2021: “Potential risks to the U.S. financial system from climate change have attracted growing attention in government, academia, and media, raising questions about the roles of financial regulators in addressing such risks. Scientific assessments have concluded that human activities—and particularly… Continue Reading
NOAA report highlights 2020 climate, weather, ocean research
“Launching uncrewed systems to monitor climate and ecosystem changes in the U.S. Arctic, sequencing the genome for endangered marine species, and improving weather forecasts with advances in regional models — these are just a few of NOAA’s scientific achievements in 2020. The newly released 2020 NOAA Science Report highlights the ways these accomplishments — and many… Continue Reading
IMF Launches Climate Change Indicators Dashboard
“The International Monetary Fund (IMF) launched a new Climate Change Indicators Dashboard—an international statistical initiative to address the growing need for data in macroeconomic and financial policy analysis to facilitate climate change mitigation and adaptation. The Dashboard is a single platform that brings together experimental climate change indicators that allows comparison across countries. The indicators… Continue Reading
Sentinel Playground
sentinelhub: “Sentinel Playground utilizes Sentinel Hub technology to enable easy-to-use discovery and exploring of full-resolution Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, Landsat 8, DEM and MODIS imagery, along with access to the EO data products. It is a graphical interface to a complete and daily updated Sentinel-2 archive, a massive resource for anyone interested in Earth’s changing surface, natural… Continue Reading
Just 3% of world’s ecosystems remain intact, study suggests
Where Might We Find Ecologically Intact Communities? Front. For. Glob. Change, 15 April 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2021.626635 “Conservation efforts should target the few remaining areas of the world that represent outstanding examples of ecological integrity and aim to restore ecological integrity to a much broader area of the world with intact habitat and minimal species loss… Continue Reading
Google Earth Engine Timelapse Video
“Earth Timelapse is a global, zoomable video that lets you see how our planet has changed since 1984. On this page, you’ll find a curated selection of videos that highlight different types of planetary change, including urban expansion, mining impacts, river meandering, the growth of megacities, deforestation, and agricultural expansion. Videos are available to download… Continue Reading
