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Newswise:Video Embedded live-event-for-april-21-sleeping-pill-reduces-levels-of-alzheimer-s-proteins
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Released: 21-Apr-2023 3:10 PM EDT
TRANSCRIPT AND VIDEO AVAILABLE Live Event for April 21: Sleeping pill reduces levels of Alzheimer’s proteins
Newswise

Researcher will discuss the study which involved a sleeping aid known as suvorexant that is already approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for insomnia, hints at the potential of sleep medications to slow or stop the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.

       
Released: 20-Apr-2023 4:25 PM EDT
Conservation: Sea level rises could threaten sea turtle breeding grounds
Scientific Reports

Sea level rises could lead to the flooding of sea turtle breeding grounds in Australia, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica and the USA, according to a study published in Scientific Reports. The findings suggest that flooding could contribute to the loss of turtle nesting sites and that leatherback turtle nests may be particularly vulnerable.

Newswise:Video Embedded fau-virtual-planet-and-city-of-west-palm-beach-unveil-groundbreaking-virtual-reality-experience2
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Released: 20-Apr-2023 8:30 AM EDT
FAU, Virtual Planet and City of West Palm Beach Unveil Groundbreaking Virtual Reality Experience
Florida Atlantic University

The multidisciplinary team created a virtual simulation of the devastation that a Category 5 hurricane and sea level rise could have on West Palm Beach. The simulation, produced with 3D technology, reveals the destruction that could occur in Osprey Park and the surrounding communities, highlighting the threat to the coastline and potential solutions for coastal areas.

Released: 18-Apr-2023 8:35 PM EDT
Biological invasions as costly as natural disasters
CNRS (Centre National de Recherche Scientifique / National Center of Scientific Research)

By invading new environments, some alien species have caused disastrous consequences for local species and ecosystems, as well as for human activities – damage to infrastructure, crops, forest plantations, fishing yields, health and tourism. The areas affected are multiple and the damage is costly.

Newswise: Warming climate will affect streamflow in the northeast
Released: 17-Apr-2023 7:40 PM EDT
Warming climate will affect streamflow in the northeast
Dartmouth College

A new Dartmouth study provides insight into how changes in precipitation and temperature due to global warming affect streamflow and flooding in the Northeast. The findings are published in the Journal of the American Water Resources Association.

Newswise: Come Health or High Water
Released: 13-Apr-2023 10:05 AM EDT
Come Health or High Water
University of Pittsburgh

Historically oppressed communities are faced with compounded health, economic and social injustices – with climate change making them worse.

   
Newswise: The 2022 Durban floods were the most catastrophic yet recorded in KwaZulu-Natal
Released: 11-Apr-2023 5:00 PM EDT
The 2022 Durban floods were the most catastrophic yet recorded in KwaZulu-Natal
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

The disastrous flood that hit Durban in April 2022 was the most catastrophic natural disaster yet recorded in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) in collective terms of lives lost, homes and infrastructure damaged or destroyed and economic impact.

Newswise: Stopping Storms from Creating Dangerous Urban Geysers
6-Apr-2023 11:05 AM EDT
Stopping Storms from Creating Dangerous Urban Geysers
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

In Physics of Fluids, researchers develop a computational model of stormwater piping to study storm geysers. They used this model to understand why storm geysers form, what conditions tend to make them worse, and what city planners can do to prevent them from occurring.

Released: 29-Mar-2023 4:50 PM EDT
Facing floods, non-white homeowners prepare, protect property
Cornell University

In flood-prone areas of New York state, non-white homeowners are more likely than white homeowners to take active, sometimes-costly measures – such as finding a way to protect a furnace, a water heater or installing a sump pump – to prepare for a possible deluge, according to a new Cornell University study.

Released: 28-Mar-2023 1:15 PM EDT
SMART warnings could protect communities at risk from flooding
University of Birmingham

Engaging communities in developing a real-time early warning system could help to reduce the often-devastating impact of flooding on people and property – particularly in mountainous regions where extreme water events are a ‘wicked’ problem, a new study reveals

Released: 24-Mar-2023 2:30 PM EDT
Framework helps local planners prepare for climate pressures on food, energy & water systems
Marine Biological Laboratory

As the world faces increasingly extreme and frequent weather events brought on by climate change – such as droughts, floods, heatwaves, and wildfires – critical civic resources such as food, water, and energy will be impacted.

Released: 23-Mar-2023 9:50 AM EDT
Housing plays key role in disaster preparedness
Ohio State University

Researchers focus a lot of attention on how disasters such as hurricanes and floods affect people’s housing in the United States. But a new national study found that housing is also important before disasters happen: People with homes not meeting federal quality classifications and those who are housing insecure tend to be less prepared to face natural calamities.

Newswise: The world’s atmospheric rivers now have an intensity ranking like hurricanes
Released: 9-Mar-2023 7:20 PM EST
The world’s atmospheric rivers now have an intensity ranking like hurricanes
American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Atmospheric rivers, which are long, narrow bands of water vapor, are becoming more intense and frequent with climate change.

Newswise: Pioneering study shows flood risks can still be considerably reduced if all global promises to cut carbon emissions are kept
2-Mar-2023 6:05 AM EST
Pioneering study shows flood risks can still be considerably reduced if all global promises to cut carbon emissions are kept
University of Bristol

Annual damage caused by flooding in the UK could increase by more than a fifth over the next century due to climate change unless all international pledges to reduce carbon emissions are met, according to new research.

Released: 3-Mar-2023 6:15 PM EST
Sea level rise poses particular risk for Asian megacities
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

Sea level rise this century may disproportionately affect certain Asian megacities as well as western tropical Pacific islands and the western Indian Ocean, according to new research that looks at the effects of natural sea level fluctuations on the projected rise due to climate change.

Released: 7-Feb-2023 4:45 PM EST
As extreme weather events become more often and intensify, the number of people and places exposed to flooding events is likely to grow
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

As extreme weather events become more often and intensify, the number of people and places exposed to flooding events is likely to grow.

Newswise: Rapid plant evolution may make coastal regions more susceptible to flooding and sea level rise, study shows
Released: 26-Jan-2023 3:05 PM EST
Rapid plant evolution may make coastal regions more susceptible to flooding and sea level rise, study shows
University of Notre Dame

Evolution has occurred more rapidly than previously thought in the Chesapeake Bay wetlands, which may decrease the chance that coastal marshes can withstand future sea level rise, researchers at the University of Notre Dame and collaborators demonstrated in a recent publication in Science.

Released: 25-Jan-2023 2:10 PM EST
Worst impacts of sea level rise will hit earlier than expected
American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Current models of sea level rise suggest the most widespread impacts will occur after sea level has risen by several meters. But a new study finds the biggest increases in inundation will occur after the first 2 meters (6.6 feet) of sea level rise, covering more than twice as much land as older elevation models predicted.

Released: 12-Jan-2023 11:05 AM EST
Using machine learning to help monitor climate-induced hazards
Ohio State University

Combining satellite technology with machine learning may allow scientists to better track and prepare for climate-induced natural hazards, according to research presented last month at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

Released: 4-Jan-2023 6:45 PM EST
How climate change impacts the Indian Ocean dipole, leading to severe droughts and floods
Brown University

With a new analysis of long-term climate data, researchers say they now have a much better understanding of how climate change can impact and cause sea water temperatures on one side of the Indian Ocean to be so much warmer or cooler than the temperatures on the other — a phenomenon that can lead to sometimes deadly weather-related events like megadroughts in East Africa and severe flooding in Indonesia.

Newswise: Surf, Sand and Seaweed: The latest breakthroughs in Marine Science
Released: 4-Jan-2023 1:40 PM EST
Surf, Sand and Seaweed: The latest breakthroughs in Marine Science
Newswise

Here are some of the latest articles that have been added to the Marine Science channel on Newswise, a free source for media.

Newswise: Americans Flocking to Fire: National Migration Study
5-Dec-2022 5:00 AM EST
Americans Flocking to Fire: National Migration Study
University of Vermont

Americans are leaving many of the U.S. counties hit hardest by hurricanes and heatwaves—and moving towards dangerous wildfires and warmer temperatures, says one of the largest studies of U.S. migration and natural disasters. These results are concerning, as wildfire and rising temperatures are projected to worsen with climate change. The study was inspired by the increasing number of headlines of record-breaking natural disasters.

   
Newswise: Low-cost sensor records the level of rivers
Released: 23-Nov-2022 11:35 AM EST
Low-cost sensor records the level of rivers
University of Bonn

Researchers at the University of Bonn have developed a method that allows the water level of rivers to be monitored around the clock.

Newswise: ETRI develops a 'K-Guard' app that protects daily safety
Released: 22-Nov-2022 8:30 AM EST
ETRI develops a 'K-Guard' app that protects daily safety
National Research Council of Science and Technology

ETRI has developed a smartphone app that informs citizens’ daily lives of various safety hazards in real-time, such as flooding, fire, and disappearance.

Released: 15-Nov-2022 3:35 PM EST
Dam safety: New study indicates probable maximum flood events will significantly increase over next 80 years
University of Melbourne

The flood capacity of dams could be at greater risk of being exceeded, due to out-of-date modelling for potential maximum rainfall, according to industry-funded research by UNSW and the University of Melbourne.

Released: 14-Nov-2022 10:05 AM EST
FEMA’s home buyout program weighted in bureaucracy, lacks equity
Cornell University

As climate change threatens residential areas, a longtime federal home buyout program – designed to eliminate risk to people and property – has become bureaucratically inaccessible and inequitable, according to researchers at Cornell University.

   
Released: 10-Nov-2022 9:40 AM EST
Urgent need to address climate-related losses and damages
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

With COP27 underway in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, the subject of climate-related losses and damages is once again expected to take center stage.

Released: 7-Nov-2022 12:45 PM EST
The Paris Agreement – better measurement methods needed
Linkoping University

The Paris Agreement says that we should reduce the emission of greenhouse gases to limit the rise in global temperature to 2 degrees Celsius.

Newswise: Deep Learning Underlies Geographic Dataset Used in Hurricane Response
Released: 1-Nov-2022 12:50 PM EDT
Deep Learning Underlies Geographic Dataset Used in Hurricane Response
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Over the past seven years, researchers in ORNL’s Geospatial Science and Human Security Division have mapped and characterized all structures within the United States and its territories to aid FEMA in its response to disasters.

Released: 31-Oct-2022 5:50 PM EDT
Flood Modeling Framework Reveals Heightened Risk and Disparities in Los Angeles
University of California, Irvine

Irvine, Calif., Oct. 31, 2022 – Flood risk in Los Angeles is vastly larger than previously indicated by federally defined flood maps, and low-income and marginalized communities face a significantly higher threat, according to a study led by researchers at the University of California, Irvine. The findings are the product of a recently developed high-resolution flood modeling platform that can assess risk every 10 feet across the 2,700-square-mile expanse of the Greater Los Angeles basin.

Newswise: Timely study on rising groundwater offers hope for drought-stricken East Africa
Released: 19-Oct-2022 5:05 AM EDT
Timely study on rising groundwater offers hope for drought-stricken East Africa
University of Bristol

New research indicates better groundwater supply management could hold the key to help combat the impact of climate change in East Africa, where countries are currently facing the worst drought and food insecurity in a generation.

Released: 18-Oct-2022 2:05 PM EDT
A new comprehensive assessment of ocean warming highlights future climate risks
Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

A research study just published in Nature Reviews provides new information about how much the planet has warmed and what warming we may expect in the coming decades.

Released: 13-Oct-2022 3:05 PM EDT
Seismic sensing reveals flood damage potential
University of Göttingen

Rapidly evolving floods are a major and growing hazard worldwide. Currently, their onset and evolution is hard to identify using existing systems.

Released: 12-Oct-2022 2:05 AM EDT
Rising sea levels mean rising groundwater—and that spells trouble for coastal septic systems
Geological Society of America (GSA)

Sea-level rise and big storms are hammering coastal communities, causing increased flooding and land loss, saltwater intrusion, wetland loss/change, and impacts to local infrastructure.

Newswise: Study Finds U.S. Future Floods Becoming More Frequent, Wider Spread, Yet Less Seasonal
Released: 3-Oct-2022 5:05 PM EDT
Study Finds U.S. Future Floods Becoming More Frequent, Wider Spread, Yet Less Seasonal
University of Oklahoma, Gallogly College of Engineering

Yang Hong, Ph.D., a professor of hydrology and remote sensing in the School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science in the Gallogly College of Engineering at the University of Oklahoma, says the continued warming climate and aging water infrastructure will exacerbate flood risks.

Newswise: Study suggests La Niña winters could keep on coming
Released: 3-Oct-2022 3:15 PM EDT
Study suggests La Niña winters could keep on coming
University of Washington

Forecasters are predicting a “three-peat La Niña” this winter. A recent study of surface ocean temperatures suggests that climate change could, in the short term, be favoring La Niñas.

Released: 9-Sep-2022 2:05 PM EDT
Newly identified genes may help protect crops against flooding, researchers say
Hiroshima University

Flooding is a global risk, according to the World Bank, with the lives and property of billions of people threatened. Even more people are at risk of starvation as a knock-on effect of floods: the waters can drown crops.

Newswise: Ecological tipping point: 5+ El Niño events per century controls coastal biotic communities
8-Sep-2022 12:05 PM EDT
Ecological tipping point: 5+ El Niño events per century controls coastal biotic communities
University of Utah

Along with implications for the future, the findings illuminate important moments in our past, including human migration into the Americas, the variable human use of coastal and interior habitats and the extinction of the flightless duck Chendytes.

   
Released: 29-Aug-2022 10:00 AM EDT
Finding solutions to the Mississippi River basin’s biggest challenges
Iowa State University

A team of researchers received a National Science Foundation grant to study the Mississippi River basin's challenges and how these issues connect to affect the environmental conditions of cities, suburban areas and rural areas — and the people living there.

Released: 25-Aug-2022 11:35 AM EDT
Climate change exacerbated hurricane Harvey’s flood damage, hitting low-income and Latinx neighborhoods disproportionately harder
Louisiana State University

New research published today shows that if it were not for the impact of climate change, up to 50 percent of residences in Houston’s Harris County would not have been flooded by Hurricane Harvey five years ago.

   
Newswise: Simultaneous climate events risk damaging entire socioeconomic systems
3-Aug-2022 10:05 AM EDT
Simultaneous climate events risk damaging entire socioeconomic systems
PLOS Climate

In heatwaves where heat and drought combine, effects can destabilize interlinked sectors, including health, energy and food production systems.

   
Newswise: University of Kentucky, UK HealthCare focusing relief efforts in Eastern Kentucky
Released: 3-Aug-2022 2:40 PM EDT
University of Kentucky, UK HealthCare focusing relief efforts in Eastern Kentucky
University of Kentucky

The Commonwealth of Kentucky is dealing with a second catastrophic weather event in just a matter of months. Back in December, areas of Western Kentucky were decimated by some of the strongest tornadoes to hit the state in recent memory. This time, Eastern Kentucky has been hit with devastation, with the damage and casualties from these historic floods spanning across multiple counties. The pictures coming out of the impacted areas have overwhelmed the entire state with grief for their neighbors who will feel the effects of this tragedy for months and years to come.

   


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