Sweet Lightning

Seismogram of 1906 San Francisco earthquake, recorded in Germany, showing arrival of both compressional P waves and S shear waves, as vertical squiggles on a horizontal time axis

Resilience Borne of Disaster

After experiencing disasters, many places around the world are rebuilding to be more resilient in future. We can learn from the experience of others how to assess our local hazards and risks and upgrade our infrastructure, so as to lessen the damage from future events.

Climate Change

Trees

Trees are beautiful and maybe wise.

Kitchen counter with open bag of coffee beans, on its side with beans spilling out, next to manual coffee grinder and French press. Behind are ceramic canisters and teapots.

Climate Change

Coffee - Climate Change Gets Personal

Coffee – many of us can’t live without our daily fix, but what is the environmental footprint of our daily cup(s), and what impact does a warming planet have on the future of coffee production?

Map of the western hemisphere showing the flyover path of the International Space Station, with markers to show EMIT-detected plume sites.

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Directly View ISS Methane Data

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In Hot Water

To talk climate, we need to talk class, comfort—and coffee.

Agriculture

Agrivoltaics

Agrivoltaics, a technique that combines various forms of agricultural production underneath, or adjacent to, photovoltaic installations, provides multiple, synergistic benefits: agricultural, ecological, and financial. The worldwide scope of agrivoltaics is currently small, but is growing.

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Flyby

You take a good, hard look at Sagan's "pale blue dot." You learn surprising things.

Climate Change

Hydrogen Economy - hype or hope?

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Flooding

With climate-adaptive approaches to flood management and wetland conservation, every dollar spent yields many dollars back in flood damage reduction.

Hey, we're just following (customer) orders

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Fire insurance

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Climate Politics

An excess of unworthy events becomes worthy of commentary.

A family watches an obviously-dangerous monster crawling towards them, but they are not worried. The monster is slow.

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Slow Apocalypse

Why is humanity moving so slowly to respond to climate change?

Climate Change

Gassy knolls: Automation finds the 10 worst methane hotspots

A methane-hotspot tool uses satellite data to find problem regions. We need this tool — and others like it — to stop climate change.

Methane leaks: It's the little ones that'll get us in the end

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Methane leaks: It's the little ones that'll get us in the end

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Climate consequences: Fire

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DIY: Explore Sentinel-5P's methane data

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Intense debate

Intensity measurements have a particular use, but we shouldn't rely on them as barometers of progress.

A boy and a girl spot a way out of a dark and dangerous situation.

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Hope.

We begin a series of short posts to draw attention to progress on climate change and the environment.

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Geoengineering: Cool roofs

Satellites are Pooka spotters in a global crisis

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Methane

Satellites are Pooka spotters in a global crisis

10 things you need to know about methane satellites

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Climate Change

Something wicked this way comes

Historical Perspective

Engineering culture

By training, most engineers hate leaks.