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Apr 3, 2014

Documentary Series, Years of Living Dangerously, Examines Impacts of Climate Change on Human Lives

The cable television channel, Showtime, is airing a new documentary series starting April 13, 2014. Our colleague and climate scientist, Katherine Hayhoe, will appear on an episode or two. About… 

Apr 3, 2014

April 10 – Brown Bag: The Housing Bomb: Why Our Addiction to Houses Is Destroying the Environment and Threatening Our Society

The South Atlantic LCC presents the Triangle Climate & Landscape Researchers’ Brown Bag Presenter: Dr. Nils Peterson, a professor in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources at NC State University… 

Apr 2, 2014

USDA Forest Service Launches Interactive Online Learning Module, Climate Science and Modeling

Clear, engaging, and scientifically accurate climate education is the first step to incorporating climate change into natural resource management.  The Climate Change Resource Center (www.fs.fed.us/ccrc/) has released a new interactive… 

Apr 2, 2014

Snowshoe Hares May Not be Able to Adapt Quickly Enough to Climate Pressures

A new study in The Proceedings of the Royal Society B, by SE Climate Science Center affiliated researchers, Marketa Zimova and L. Scott Mills, investigates whether snowshoe hares can adjust… 

Apr 1, 2014

April 3 – Global Warming: A Matter of Physics, Science Thursday at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences

The Museum is celebrating Earth Day all month long! Join us for Earth Month every Science Thursday in April from 5-9pm. Each Thursday will have a different conservation-related topic. Come… 

Mar 31, 2014

April 4 – Pests, Ecosystem Services, and Climate Change

This is a USDA Forest Service First Friday All Climate Change Talk Presenter: Steve Frank, PhD, North Carolina State University assistant professor and extension specialist Title: pests, ecosystem services, and… 

Mar 31, 2014

IPCC Working Group II Releases ‘Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability’ Report

From a press release issued by the IPCC today, March 31, 2014: YOKOHAMA, Japan, 31 March – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a report today that says… 

Mar 28, 2014

April 4 – Seminar: Climate Change, Invasive Plants, and the Colonization of Novel Environments by Insect Herbivores

Speaker: Dr. Carlos Garcia-Robledo, Post-doctoral Fellow in the Departments of Botany and Entomology at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Title: Climate Change, Invasive Plants, and the Colonization of… 

Mar 28, 2014

History Can Teach Us About Preparing for Climate Impacts

The Little Ice Age in the 17th century brought a period of deep cold to the northern hemisphere between the 1620s to the late 1690s, and the associated extreme events… 

Mar 27, 2014

USGS Researcher, Michael Osland, Discusses Incorporating Climate into Coastal Wetland Vulnerability Assessments

Climate change is projected to cause significant sea level rise (SLR) impacts along the Gulf Coast. It’s ironic, then, that so much climate change planning in the Gulf focuses almost…