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Climate change is increasing the risk of a California megaflood

Published:August 2022

Author(s):Xingying Huang and Daniel Swain

Publisher:Science Advances

This peer-reviewed study uses climate modeling to find that climate change has already doubled the likelihood of an event capable of producing catastrophic flooding in California. Read More →

Methane remote sensing and emission quantification of offshore shallow water oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico

Published:August 2022

Author(s):Alana K Ayasse, Andrew K Thorpe, Daniel H Cusworth, Eric A Kort, Alan Gorchov Negron, Joseph Heckler, Gregory Asner, and Riley M Duren

Publisher:Environmental Research Letters

This study shows how remote sensing with imaging spectrometers and glint targeting can be used to efficiently observe offshore infrastructure, quantify methane emissions, and attribute those emissions to specific infrastructure types.Read More →

Unprecedented Heatwave in Western North America during Late June of 2021: Roles of Atmospheric Circulation and Global Warming

Published:July 2022

Author(s):Chunzai Wang, Jiayu Zheng, Wei Lin & Yuqing Wang

Publisher:Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

This study concludes that models show that greenhouse gases are the main reason for the long-term increase of average daily maximum temperature in western North America in the past and future.Read More →

U.S. Methane Emissions from Fossil Fuels at Risk of Worsening in 2022, Extending 2021 Trend

Published:June 2022

Author(s):Kayrros

Publisher:Kayrros

This report indicates that U.S. methane emissions appear to be at risk of significantly increasing in 2022.Read More →

Changing Hydrographic, Biogeochemical, and Acidification Properties in the Gulf of Maine as Measured by the Gulf of Maine North Atlantic Time Series, GNATS, Between 1998 and 2018

Published:June 2022

Author(s):William M. Balch, David T. Drapeau, Bruce C. Bowler, Nicholas R. Record, Nicholas R. Bates, Sunny Pinkham, Rebecca Garley, Catherine Mitchell

Publisher:JGR: Biogeosciences

This study covers physical, chemical, biological, biogeochemical, and bio-optical changes in the Gulf of Maine.Read More →

Climate change will increase aflatoxin presence in US Corn

Published:April 2022

Author(s):Jina Yu, David A Hennessy, Jesse Tack, and Felicia Wu

Publisher:Environmental Research Letters

This study models aflatoxin risk as a function of corn plant growth stages and weather to predict US regions with high aflatoxin risk in 2031–2040, based on 16 climate change models.Read More →

Methane emissions from US low production oil and natural gas well sites

Published:April 2022

Author(s):Mark Omara, Daniel Zavala-Araiza, David R. Lyon, Benjamin Hmiel, Katherine A. Roberts & Steven P. Hamburg

Publisher:Nature Communications

This study finds that low production oil and gas well sites are a disproportionately large source of US oil and gas well site methane emissions.Read More →

State of the Climate: New Jersey 2021

Published:April 2022

Author(s):James Shope, Anthony Broccoli, Brian Frei, Mathieu Gerbush, Jeanne Herb, Marjorie Kaplan, Erica Langer, Lucas Marxen, David Robinson

Publisher:Rutgers

This report summarizes annually updated scientific information on climate trends and projections that can be used by state and local decision-makers, researchers, hazard planning and climate resilience professionals, and residents.Read More →

Quantifying Regional Methane Emissions in the New Mexico Permian Basin with a Comprehensive Aerial Survey

Published:March 2022

Author(s):Yuanlei Chen, Evan D. Sherwin, Elena S.F. Berman, Brian B. Jones, Matthew P. Gordon, Erin B. Wetherley, Eric A. Kort, and Adam R. Brandt

Publisher:Environmental Science and Technology

This study employs a comprehensive aerial survey to estimate the regional methane emissions in the New Mexico Permian Basin.Read More →

Emissions from fossil fuels produced on US federal lands and waters present opportunities for climate mitigation

Published:March 2022

Author(s):Nathan Ratledge, Laura Zachary & Chase Huntley

Publisher:Climatic Change

This study estimates that the extraction, transportation and combustion of fossil fuels from federal lands and waters resulted in emissions equivalent to roughly 1.4 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per year from 2005 to 2019.Read More →