All articles tagged with #mitigation strategies
A study reveals that Chicago is slowly sinking due to land subsidence caused by natural glacial adjustments and human groundwater extraction, with potential long-term risks to infrastructure, and suggests managed aquifer recharge as a mitigation strategy.
Modeling of Earth's response to global warming has suggested that dry regions will become more arid and wet regions will experience more precipitation, with an uneven distribution of moisture in the atmosphere. However, scientists have studied ancient global warming events to suggest that, at least for the subtropics, this may not be the case. The Early Eocene Climatic Optimum (56–48 million years ago) was one of the warmest intervals of the last 66 million years, with mean global surface temperatures over 14°C warmer than present. Researchers have used the Deep-Time Model Intercomparison Project (DeepMIP) to reconstruct global mean rainfall patterns during the early Eocene across the planet and found that higher global mean surface temperatures correlated with increased mean annual precipitation estimates.
Scientists at the University of Bristol have discovered critical factors that determine the survival of airborne viruses, including SARS-CoV-2. The research shows that cleaner air kills the virus significantly quicker and that opening a window may be more important than originally thought. The study also found that the high pH of exhaled aerosol droplets containing the virus is likely a major driver of the loss of infectiousness, and that each of the SARS-CoV-2 variants has different stabilities while airborne, correlated with their sensitivities to alkaline pH conditions. The findings could shape future mitigation strategies for new viruses.