European Colonists Dramatically Increased North American Erosion Rates
Everything wears away in time, but human activities like farming can dramatically accelerate natural erosion rates. The arrival of European colonists in North America, for instance, sped up the rate of erosion and river sediment accumulation on the continent by a factor of 10, according to a new study. An international team of […]
New geological findings from eastern Fennoscandia add new dimensions to the history of European ice
IMAGE: Map showing the localities in NW Europe and Fennoscandia where deposits representing the different warm intervals during the last 420,000 years of Ice Age are preserved. The grey ellipsoid indicates… view more Credit: Matti Räsänen In Finland, the majority of the glacial and warm interval records have been interpreted to represent only the last, Weichselian, […]
New geological findings from eastern Fennoscandia add new dimensions to the history of European Ice Age
Map showing the localities in NW Europe and Fennoscandia where deposits representing the different warm intervals during the last 420,000 years of Ice Age are preserved. The grey ellipsoid indicates the location of the revised localities in the study. The thick grey W-E zone shows the approximate position of the inferred northern limit of boreal […]
Post-Tropical Cyclones Influence on European Windstorm Risk
Atlantic hurricanes that transition into midlatitude storms at high latitudes can affect Europe, in some cases leading to high-impact windstorms. Sainsbury et al. [2020] compared the climatology and intensity distributions of post-tropical cyclones and midlatitude storms impacting Europe (separated into northern and southern Europe) during the Atlantic hurricane seasons from 1979 to 2017 […]
