Ozone-eating chemicals (remember fluorocarbons?) are warming the Arctic.
Nature reports on an old environmental menace. Climate simulations, they say, show that the mass emission of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) beginning in the 1950s could be […]
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Melting permafrost is doubling greenhouse warming from the tundra.
Nature reports on a vicious cycle that’s making things uncomfortable in the Arctic – a release of gases from melting permafrost that’s literally collapsing, freeing […]
There are a lot of viruses in the Arctic ice – and they can show us where carbon is sinking.
Science News has a novel way to map out potential climate change – by tracking where new viruses are showing up in the ocean: Water […]
Eye in the sky will see how carbon really moves (which should make climate science better).
Nature shares details on NASA’s new International Space Station project – a device that can see CO2 in ways that most satellites can’t: The US$110-million […]
The Little Ice Age happened in part because of Europe reaching the New World.
This story has been doing the rounds lately, but the research is available via Science Direct (publishing the Quaternary Science Reviews article). A team of […]
We now know what killed everything in Earth’s worst mass-extinction event.
Science Alert lets us know that oceanographers have determined that the event that killed 70 percent of all land species and 96 percent of all […]
Climate change will be raising beer prices. (It’s the barley.)
Nature repeats a warning you’ve probably heard a few times this week. Global warming is likely to make your beer more expensive, unless we do […]
Here’s what killed all those antelopes on the steppes. It’s warmer now.
Science News gets the answers on what suddenly killed 200,000 saiga antelopes in 2015: “If you come at dawn and dusk, it’s magical,” says E.J. […]
Climate change is stealing nutrients from food.
Science News has a series of studies that show rising CO2 levels and other climate disturbances are taking minerals and vitamins out of our vegetable […]
Music from melting glaciers.
Earther has a nice look at a University of Virginia sound artist who’s turning shrinking glaciers into his musical instrument: “We’re trying to create art, […]
Where the oceans are rising.
Nature gives us a much closer look not just at how much the ocean is rising, but where the levels will be changing most, using […]
SONG: Frozen Atmospheres
SONG: “Frozen Atmospheres” [Download] . ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:Record-shattering 2.7-million-year-old ice core reveals start of the ice ages,” Science, 15 Aug 2017, as used in the […]
2.7 million-year-old ice shatters records, reveals ancient atmospheres – and ice ages.
(Plural intended.) Science magazine looks back at lots of tiny, tiny pockets of the distant past – with a deep ice core that contains samples […]
OK – Svalbard is just fine.
Popular Science is trying to calm folks down following hyped-up reports that the seed vault (previously sung about here) containing precious samples of all our […]