There are two fine stories today about life in the Sundarbans coastal forest region of India and Bangladesh, where rising sea level is swallowing up land at the fastest rate of any place in the world. Almost all of the residents are potential refugees, as it becomes more and more difficult to make a living. The first, from Mongabay, is focused on the Indian side, where encounters with tigers are now one of the highlights:
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–This story from The Guardian is mostly based on scenes from the Bangladesh side, covering a wider variety of problems that are also traced back to effects of sea level rise.
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Scientists are clarifying their understanding of the definition and dangers of a new phenomenon, ‘flash drought’ (Chinese Academy of Sciences). A new study describes how these droughts, which develop rapidly and without sufficient warning, have severe impacts, are now occurring in unusual places all over the world and are expected to increase in frequency. “This indicates that anthropogenic climate change has changed the traditional arid areas, and more attention should be paid to deal with flash drought risks in humid and semi-humid areas.” (Right now there is one in the SE region of the US.)
–The full study has open access, includes many different examples, and is easy to read:
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Powerful arguments in opposition to the practice of burning wood to generate electricity (Yale e360). A distinguished environmental scientist explains why preserving old growth forests is the best way to have trees absorb high levels of carbon from the atmosphere “because little trees just don’t store much carbon.” He has amazing things to say about the current global wood burning industry: “The most disturbed forests in the world are in the United States, not the Amazon and not Indonesia. I don’t wish to lessen the significance of the Amazon and Indonesia. But the loss of forest canopy is the greatest in the Southeastern United States of any place on the planet.” The whole story is told here, and it is very disturbing.
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An exciting discovery from research directed toward high density energy storage (Queen Mary University of London). From an author of a new journal study, “This finding promises to have a significant impact on the field of pulse power applications and could produce a step change in the field of dielectric capacitors, so far limited by their low energy storage density…..this newly developed processing, pressing and folding, is unique for its simplicity, record high energy density and potential to be adopted by industry.” Whether or not the discovery proves to be commercially viable, it is encouraging just to see research of this type being performed in a serious and successful way.
–Link to the full study, open access but highly technical:
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