The polar ice caps are melting six times faster than they were in the 1990s, the most comprehensive look at the data to date has found. That data, compiled and analyzed by the Ice Sheet Mass Balance Intercomparison Exercise (IMBIE), puts the melting of Greenland and Antarctica‘s ice sheets on track with the worst-case-scenario prediction […]
The climate crisis is taking a toll on Antarctica‘s chinstrap penguins. Scientists on a Greenpeace expedition to Antarctica found that the penguins’ numbers were falling, with one colony decreasing by 77 percent in nearly 50 years. This is especially surprising because, up until now, the chinstrap penguin has been considered a species of “least concern” […]
T-shirt weather in Antarctica? The continent just measured its hottest temperature on record at a balmy nearly 65 degrees Fahrenheit. The reading was taken by Argentina’s National Meteorological Service at the country’s Esperanza research station, AFP reported. The thermometer climbed to 18.3 degrees Celsius (approximately 64.9 degrees Fahrenheit) around noon on Thursday, beating Antarctica’s previous […]
The world’s largest iceberg, which broke free from Antarctica in 2017, is about to escape the boundaries of the continent’s perennial sea ice and make its way into the open ocean, according to the BBC. The massive iceberg, named A68, weighed up to a trillion tons, and measured 2,300 square miles, when it broke off […]
The Greenland ice sheet is melting faster than ever recorded in modern history. New research finds that the world’s second-largest ice deposit is not just melting from the surface but from below as well, which adds a new twist to consider when predicting global sea level rise. The Arctic ice sheet stores large quantities of […]
By Michaela Cavanagh (with AFP) The Russian government has unveiled a plan to adapt the country’s economy and population to climate change. The 17-page document was published online by Russia’s Ministry of Economic Development on Saturday, and outlines measures to mitigate the damage caused by climate change as well as to “use the advantages” of […]
An international team of scientists says a new way of extracting methane gas trapped in permafrost has the potential to harvest more gas while burning fewer fossil fuels in the extraction process, as Newsweek reported. The scientists from Skoltech University in Russia and Heriot-Watt University in Scotland looked at the gas hydrates, which are ice-like […]
The rate that Greenland‘s ice sheet is melting surpassed scientists’ expectations and has raised concerns that their worst-case scenario predictions are coming true, Business Insider reported. A new study published in the journal Nature from a team of scientists at NASA and the European Space Agency looked at satellite imagery from 1992 to 2018 from […]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released its 14th annual Arctic Report Card Tuesday, and the results are grim. The average land temperature between October 2018 and August 2019 was the second-warmest on record since 1900, sea ice extent at the end of the summer was at its second lowest since satellite observations began […]
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