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Antarctic ice-loss: a 25-year-long look from space.

12 December 2016 grant 0

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, and where the melted water… Read the rest “Antarctic ice-loss: a 25-year-long look from space.”

70-mile-long, 300-foot-wide crack opens in Antarctica.

8 December 2016 grant 0

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 of the least-understood… Read the rest “70-mile-long, 300-foot-wide crack opens in Antarctica.”

Wildfires “Unlike Anything We’ve Ever Seen”

30 November 2016 grant 0

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 Southeast created conditions

… Read the rest “Wildfires “Unlike Anything We’ve Ever Seen””

Don’t worry about global warming flooding! Worry about suffocation.

1 December 2015 grant 0

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 the University of Leicester’s

… Read the rest “Don’t worry about global warming flooding! Worry about suffocation.”

When icebergs floated off Key West…

14 October 2014 grant 0

Nature paints a more vivid picture of climate change – and the related changes in ocean currents – by retracing the paths of prehistoric icebergs in the years when the oceans… Read the rest “When icebergs floated off Key West…”

Antarctica has melted so much, it’s changing Earth’s gravitational profile.

6 October 2014 grant 0

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 years for which GOCE was taking data, the

… Read the rest “Antarctica has melted so much, it’s changing Earth’s gravitational profile.”

Climate change and social upheaval, the last time around…4,000 years ago.

26 August 2014 grant 0

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 the Umm An Nar (2700 to 2000 BC) to the

… Read the rest “Climate change and social upheaval, the last time around…4,000 years ago.”

Oceans are hiding global warming… for now.

22 August 2014 grant 0

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 the… Read the rest “Oceans are hiding global warming… for now.”

Mysterious crater explained. Not that it helps….

5 August 2014 grant 0

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 30-meter-wide… Read the rest “Mysterious crater explained. Not that it helps….”

Climate change means… more kidney stones?

21 July 2014 grant 0

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 Health

… Read the rest “Climate change means… more kidney stones?”

Science Art: Polar Bear – POV Cams (Spring 2014), by the USGS

29 June 2014 grant 0

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 put on a female polar bear in the Beaufort Sea

… Read the rest “Science Art: Polar Bear – POV Cams (Spring 2014), by the USGS”

Fish are saving the planet.

9 June 2014 grant 0

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:

By assigning a dollar value to carbon stored

… Read the rest “Fish are saving the planet.”

Watching the Earth breathe… again.

28 May 2014 grant 0

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 ago, he and other scientists

… Read the rest “Watching the Earth breathe… again.”

Caribbean tops climate change hit list.

11 November 2013 grant 0

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, on the top of list… Read the rest “Caribbean tops climate change hit list.”

Climate change real-estate boom: Buy high. Really high.

22 July 2013 grant 0

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 whole countries such as Mauritius

… Read the rest “Climate change real-estate boom: Buy high. Really high.”

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