By Sarah Kaplan and Brady Dennis There are millions of tips out there on “The weather of the past will not be the weather of the future,” says a NOAA scientist. “As long as we are emitting greenhouse gases at a historically unprecedented rate, we should expect this change to continue.” Scores of studies presented this week atContinue reading “2021 brought a wave of extreme weather disasters. Scientists say worse lies ahead.”
Monthly Archives: December 2021
The Atlantic’s vital currents could collapse. Scientists are racing to understand the dangers.
By James Temple On a Saturday morning in December of 2020, the RRS Discovery floated in calm waters just east of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the massive undersea mountain range that runs from the Arctic nearly to the Antarctic. The team onboard the research vessel, mostly from the UK’s National Oceanography Centre, used an acoustic signaling system to trigger theContinue reading “The Atlantic’s vital currents could collapse. Scientists are racing to understand the dangers.”