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Stable Antarctic Ice Is Suddenly Melting Fast – Sea levels worldwide will rise higher than anticipated, thanks to a new once-stable region of Antarctica that is suddenly melting, and at a fast rate. Analysis of satellite data shows that although the massive ice sheet on the Southern Antarctic Peninsula, made up of multiple glaciers, was […]
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Scientists find large Antarctic ice shelves closer to collapse than they thought – In 2002, two-thirds of the massive Larsen B ice shelf in Antarctica disintegrated into the ocean, spawning hundreds to perhaps thousands of icebergs, in a span of just six weeks. That event stunned scientists, since it was unprecedented in at least 12,000 […]
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Obama gets an anger translator at White House Correspondents’ Dinner – The Secret Service, Vice President Joe Biden’s massages and Hillary Clinton’s email kerfuffle were all fodder for President Barack Obama and Saturday Night Live’s Cecily Strong at the White Hose Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday night. But the bit that kept the audience roaring was the […]
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This Winter Was the Warmest on Record – This winter may have brought a deep freeze to much of the Northeast — including record-breaking snowfall in Boston — but climate scientists announced Wednesday that it was the planet’s warmest winter on record. According to a newly released report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s […]
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Food diversity under siege from global warming, UN says – According to a UN policy paper climate change threatens the genetic diversity of the world’s food supply, and saving crops and animals at risk will be crucial for preserving yields and adapting to wild weather patterns. Some wild crops may be more resilient to a warmer […]
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Arctic Warming Twice as Fast as Rest of Planet – The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet, thanks in part to something called feedback. NOAA has put out its annual Arctic Report Card, and the news is startling — Arctic air is warming twice as fast as the rest of […]
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Climate Report Sets Deadline for Zero Carbon Emissions – If the timetable for exactly when countries need to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions has always seemed a little vague to you, well, we just got a deadline: 2100. That’s according to a new report by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an international […]
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Global groundwater crisis may get worse as the world warms – From India to Texas, people are rapidly depleting their valuable stores of groundwater — leading to the possibility that aquifers may be emptied within decades, a NASA researcher has warned. In a commentary published Wednesday in the journal Nature Climate Change, Jay Famiglietti, a […]
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