Antarctic ice-loss: a 25-year-long look from space.
BBC has, courtesy of the Fall Meeting of American Geophysical Union (AGU), a quarter-century of satellite images of Antarctica showing how the ice is shrinking, […]
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70-mile-long, 300-foot-wide crack opens in Antarctica.
Not that anything’s trying to get out. No, Live Science wouldn’t want us to panic needlessly over a gigantic crevice yawning wide across shrinking ice-fields […]
Wildfires “Unlike Anything We’ve Ever Seen”
Scientific American is looking at what exactly the Tennessee wildfires might mean for our changing planet: A prolonged drought that has engulfed much of the […]
Don’t worry about global warming flooding! Worry about suffocation.
Science Daily has more on the threat climate change poses to our oxygen supply: A study led by Sergei Petrovskii, Professor in Applied Mathematics from […]
When icebergs floated off Key West…
Nature paints a more vivid picture of climate change – and the related changes in ocean currents – by retracing the paths of prehistoric icebergs […]
Antarctica has melted so much, it’s changing Earth’s gravitational profile.
Daily Beast has more on how 204 billion tons of melting glaciers have changed the way our planet’s gravity works: Between 2009 and 2012, the […]
Climate change and social upheaval, the last time around…4,000 years ago.
The National (of the UAE) reports on radical new ways to deal with climate change… from the dawn of civilization: The Bronze Age transition from […]
Oceans are hiding global warming… for now.
The Atlantic, the Pacific… are sinks. Heat sinks. So says Scientific American, explaining that temperatures haven’t risen as sharply as they could have (YET) because […]
Mysterious crater explained. Not that it helps….
Nature offers one of the least comforting explanations for a mysterious hole in Siberia. It wasn’t from an asteroid or a rogue telephone-pole-installing crew. The […]
Climate change means… more kidney stones?
Yep. Scientific American has more on a painful consequence of temperatures swinging upward unexpectedly: In a study published earlier this month in the journal Environmental […]
Science Art: Polar Bear – POV Cams (Spring 2014), by the USGS
As the U.S. Geological Survey puts it: This video was edited and compiled from raw footage recorded by a camera equipped radio collar that was […]
Fish are saving the planet.
Aquaman may have had more going for him than he gets credit for. Scientific American reveals the amazing power fish have to reverse global warming: […]
Watching the Earth breathe… again.
Scientific American watches NASA launch another satellite to watch the way our planet breathes: But since [David Crisp] first conceived the project nearly 15 years […]
Caribbean tops climate change hit list.
International Business Times readies the citizens of balmy island paradises for a rough ride, thanks to a World Bank report putting Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, […]
Climate change real-estate boom: Buy high. Really high.
Fast Company looks to the heights to chronicle a potential climate change real estate boom: Scientists and politicians have even come to the conclusion that […]