Climate change may be loading the dice for a tough summer.
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June 28, 2021
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August 11, 2020
Compound risk — when multiple risks occur simultaneously, or one after another — was the topic of a recent discussion as part of the Resilience Media Project, a part of the Initiative on Communication and Sustainability at the Earth Institute.
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September 04, 2019
Park Williams and Richard Seager, climate experts at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, discuss why California wildfires are expected to expand and intensify with climate change.
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July 09, 2019
New research will advance understanding of how wildfires may evolve in the future, and how we can most effectively respond to them.
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January 17, 2019
A new study shows that some of Yellowstone National Park’s forests may be at a climate tipping point, and could be replaced by grassland by the middle of this century.
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November 14, 2018
A guide to wildfire experts at the Earth Institute.
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November 12, 2018
Park Williams, a bioclimatologist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, has found that rising temperatures influence wildfires in the American West.
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May 30, 2018
Sunny California may be getting too sunny. Increasing summer temperatures brought on by a combination of intensifying urbanization and warming climate are driving off once-common morning cloud cover in southern coastal areas of the state, leading to increased risk of wildfires.
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October 27, 2017
During a conference at Columbia University, scientists pinpointed areas where advances in fire prediction can be made within the next decade.
