Tracking Salt Marshes: Impacts of Sea Level Rise
Over the past 200 years, Rhode Island has lost over 50 percent of its salt marshes due to coastal development, resulting in a loss of approximately 4,000 acres statewide.
November 11, 2014
Changes in U.S. precipitation: wet areas to get wetter, dry areas to get drier
The twentifirst century may bring the United States more of the weather it's already got, whether wet or dry. The greater the increase in greenhouse gas emissions, the greater the projected changes in seasonal precipitaiton.