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Predicted Arctic sea ice trends over time

Real Climate

2007) , and were compounded by the summertime record losses of sea ice in 2007 and then 2012. With an additional decade, how does that look now? Percent change in March (red) and September (blue) Arctic sea extent w.r.t. 1979-1988 in the CMIP3 ensemble and NSIDC observations. Kattsov, A. Barrett, M. Serreze, T. Pavlova, M. Holland, and W.N.

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FIRO to Avoid Water FOMO: How to Save Every Drop with Smart Reservoir Operations in California

Union of Concerned Scientists

FIRO started in California and has since gone worldwide Once upon a time, there was (and still is) a megadrought in California that peaked in the acute drought of 2012 to 2016. In other words, FIRO avoids the fear of missing out (FOMO) on water that you could have stored if you had better forecasting.

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Federal Court Finds Swampbuster Constitutional

National Law Center

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NALC news release: Legal experts to explore Western water markets during NALC webinar

National Law Center

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The Feed: Vol. 3, Issue 14

National Law Center

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Vibrio Bacteria in Beach Water Can Make You Seriously Ill

Scientific American

Humans can get sick from Vibrio by eating infected seafood such as oysters, unwittingly swallowing a mouthful of ocean water or exposing an open wound to the sea. These ranges are far less salty than open ocean water and are typical of brackish conditions found where rivers meet bays. vulnificus in the Chesapeake Bay.

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Greenland’s Ice Sheet Collapse Could Be Closer Than We Think

Scientific American

The GreenDrill site sat on the frozen edge of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream, or NEGIS, a massive, moving tongue of ice that drains 12 to 16 percent of the ice sheet into the ocean. The mission was to collect sediment cores from the ocean floor. One day in 2012 she was on the ice—and it rained. billion of them.