Officials, activists and scientists gathered in Iceland Sunday for the funeral of the nation’s first glacier to fall victim to the climate crisis. Iceland’s Okjokull glacier lost its glacier status in 2014, as AFP reported, and scientists fear it will only be the first of many to melt away. The country could lose all of […]
The glaciers of the Himalayas are melting twice as fast as they were in the year 2000, a study published Wednesday in Science Advances found. The researchers assembled the most detailed look to date at the last 40 years of Himalayan ice loss to date, combining contemporary satellite information with data from declassified U.S. spy […]
Most days, the news on climate can be tough. Carbon dioxide levels reaching new heights. Glaciers melting even faster than we thought. White House officials celebrating the prospect of an ice-free Arctic. Not a whole lot of good ways to spin these. But here’s the good news. There are a lot of smart and committed […]
Yet another study has shown that glaciers in Antarctica are melting at accelerating rates. Almost 25 percent of the West Antarctic ice shelf is now thinning, and the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers are losing ice at five times the rate they were in the early 1990s, CNN reported. “In parts of Antarctica, the ice […]
By Andy Rowell Earlier this month, we collectively walked into the unknown. We are all now a living experiment. Never before in human history have carbon dioxide levels reached 415 parts per million. These levels were last seen maybe some 2.5 to 5 million years ago, during the Pliocene, but then the earth was much […]
Parts of the world’s largest ice shelf are melting 10 times faster than the shelf’s average rate, and this could have worrying implications for sea level rise. The finding is part of a study of the Ross Ice Shelf, a block of ice about the size of France, which plays an important role in stabilizing […]
Greenland is melting six times faster than it was in the 1980s, which is even faster than scientists thought, CNN reported Tuesday. The new figure is part of a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that reconstructed the mass balance of Greenland over the past 46 years, comparing ice […]
Glaciers may be melting faster than scientists thought, causing 25 to 30 percent of global sea level rise, according to comprehensive research published in Nature on Monday. While previous studies had only assessed 500 glaciers, the new study looked at more than 19,000 glaciers using both satellite data and field visits, lead study author and […]
Weather and climate aren’t the same. It’s one thing for people who spend little or no time learning about global warming to confuse the two, but when those we elect to represent us don’t know the difference, we’re in trouble. For a U.S. president to tweet about what he referred to as “Global Waming” because […]
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