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CLIMATEWIRE | This year’s hurricane season is already breaking records less than a month in. Atlantic temperatures are abnormally warm, and tropical storms are emerging in waters that don’t typically produce them until at least August. Tropical Storm Bret, the season’s third named storm, formed in the Central Atlantic on Monday after first emerging from a tropical wave off Africa's western coast. It’s the farthest east a tropical storm has formed in the Atlantic this early in the season, according to hurricane expert…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A team of oceanographers at the University of California's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, working with one colleague from Brandeis University and two from Oregon State University, has found evidence of typhoons/hurricanes pushing warm water deep into the ocean, where it is carried to distant places. In their research, reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group…

Researchers analyzed data from eight US cities, from 2009 to 2018, which included 69,525 dog bite incidents, noticing that incidents rose by eleven percent on days with higher UV levels, four percent on hotter days, and three percent on days with elevated ozone levels.A recent study suggests dog bites may increase by up to 11% on warmer, sunnier days, and those with high air pollution. The ten-year data showed increases with higher UV, temperature, and ozone levels, but decreased slightly on rainy days. However, as the…

I would love to have been in the audience in Hawick in the Scottish borders for the premiere of this documentary; it was filmed in the town by artist Mark Lyken during a six-month residency with local outfit Alchemy Film & Arts. A collection of brief snapshots of the day-to-day, Lyken’s film is proof that there is no such thing as ordinary life. Maybe it’s his curious, kind-natured way of looking at people, their rhythms and routines, but scenes here become gently moving in ways that are hard to pinpoint exactly. That…

The Clash – Sandinista! (1980)When I first heard Sandinista! as a schoolboy, I was baffled by the way this supposed “punk band” careered between genres or combined them, several at a time. Today, now that revolutions such as the iPod and streaming have changed the way we listen to music, the 36-track triple album sounds like the ultimate mixtape. It’s a two-hour long hurtle through rock, pop, funk, soul, Motown, dub, jazz, calypso, R&B and swing. The Magnificent Seven – which I always loved, along with the…

Indicative changes in sea temperature, ocean pH, sea level and tropical cyclones based on climate projections. Credit: Great Barrier Reef 2019 Outlook Report The Bureau of Meteorology this week declared a 70% chance of an El Niño developing this year. This raises concern for the health of the Great Barrier Reef, which is under continuing threat from climate change. …

German engine maker MAN Energy Solutions‘ industrial-sized heat pumps will produce 350,000 MWh of heat per year and warm 25,000 Danish households using offshore wind power and seawater. Industrial-sized heat pumps The seaport town of Esbjerg, Denmark, has a target of net zero by 2030, and Kenneth Jørgensen, project director at Danish utility DIN Forsyning, said: We’re phasing out coal-fired heat and replacing it with carbon-neutral district heating produced from wind and seawater.…

Distribution of annual SAT anomalies and extreme high temperature events in China in 2022 (red points mark where the daily maximum temperature reached the extreme threshold; purple points denote where the historical record was broken). Credit: Wang Ling Weather and climate are important factors affecting economic and social development. In China, the country's National Climate Center releases an annual climate report that…

Long-term expansion of Mediterranean forests and increase in precipitation as well as an enhanced East Asian summer monsoon associated with the increase and northward migration of the Atlantic moisture source. Paradoxically, the glacial was warmer and wetter than the preceding interglacial. Credit: André Bahr Approximately 700,000 years ago, a "warm ice age" permanently changed the climate cycles on Earth. Contemporaneous with…

Researchers at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa have made a surprising first discovery: scalloped hammerhead sharks hold their breath like air-breathing marine mammals when they deep dive into cold waters to feed. The finding has improved our understanding of the iconic shark’s physiology but raised concerns about the potential damage caused by human interference with deep-sea ecosystems.Most fish are ectothermic, meaning they cannot regulate their internal body temperature and rely on the environment to do it. As fish…