Tag: flood

  • Nation & World

    From ancient flooding, modern insights

    Tamara Pico, a postdoctoral fellow, is using records of flooding in the Bering Strait to make inferences about how the ice sheets that covered North America responded to the warming climate, and how their melting might have contributed to climate changes.

    5 minutes
    Tamara Pico in front of an image of the Earth.
  • Nation & World

    Taming Australia

    The recent floods and drought experienced by Australia are extreme expressions of a naturally fluctuating water cycle that has been moderated with engineering and which the introduction of market reforms recently has made more efficient.

    4 minutes