Top Menu

Land Use

Part 14: How to project climate into the future: Emission scenarios

By Luisa Cristini, PhD, University of Hawaii at Manoa. [Note from the editor: This is the fourteenth in a series of blog entries that will focus on introductory topics in climate dynamics and modeling, and will serve to provide insight into the current understanding of the science.] Changes in external forcing (e.g., solar forcings, astronomical […]

Continue Reading

PAGES group studies past human impacts on rivers

By Gavin Roy Human interaction with rivers began thousands of years ago when organized agriculture first appeared, and the interaction continues today on a grand scale. Rivers are diverted for irrigation, contained by concrete barriers through major cities, and dammed to form reservoirs and generate hydroelectric power. As humans rely on the Earth’s rivers more […]

Continue Reading