Travail & Sécurité : numéro d’octobre 2018

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Ice Shelves Fracture Under Weight of Meltwater Lakes
When air temperatures in Antarctica rise and glacier ice melts, water can pool on the surface of floating ice shelves, weighing them down and causing the ice to bend.
Webb Telescope Probably Didn’t Find Life on an Exoplanet — Yet
Recent reports of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope finding signs of life on a distant planet understandably sparked excitement.
Lake Tsunamis Pose Significant Threat Under Warming Climate
The names might not be familiar—Cowee Creek, Brabazon Range, Upper Pederson Lagoon—but they mark the sites of recent lake tsunamis, a phenomenon that is increasingly common in Alaska, British Columbia and other regions with mountain glaciers.
Oil Palm Plantations Are Driving Massive Downstream Impact to Watershed
Researchers at UMass Amherst find Indigenous populations bear the environmental and public health costs when native Indonesian forests are converted to oil palm plantations.
Climate Change Intensifies Wind-Rain Extremes in the UK and Ireland
Climate change will cause an increase in extreme winter storms combining strong winds and heavy rainfall over the UK and Ireland, new research has shown.