Ice sheets in Greenland are melting so rapidly due to high temperatures in the Arctic that the amount of ice melt from Tuesday was enough to cover all of Florida in two inches of water, according to the researchers at Polar Portal. https://twitter.com/WMO/statuses/1420665634518708229 Greenland has lost 18.4 billion tons of surface mass since last Sunday. […]
The Pine Island Glacier is currently Antarctica‘s greatest contributor to sea level rise, and, now, a new study warns that it could be closer to collapse than previously thought. The research, published in Science Advances Friday, found that the vulnerable glacier had sped up by 12 percent over the last three years as the ice […]
Maya Lin, the designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C., created a “Ghost Forest” art exhibit to bring awareness to the dangers of climate change and its impact on trees. The exhibit, located in downtown Manhattan, features 49 lifeless Atlantic Cedar trees that have been replanted into the ground. The trees were sourced […]
By Anne-Sophie Brändlin Some of the world’s great coastal cities could be severely inundated by 2050 as a result of global warming. Extreme floods that used to occur once a century could start hitting some cities every year. 1. Shanghai (China) Ninety-three million people currently live on land in China that could be inundated by […]
By Natalie Marchant The waterfront residences will float on a flexible grid across a 200-hectare lagoon. Such innovative developments could prove vital in helping atoll nations, such as the Maldives, fight the impact of climate change. Dutch company is also testing the technology in the Netherlands. The atoll nation of Maldives is creating an innovative […]
A massive chunk of ice broke off of Antarctica this month, and it is now the largest iceberg in the world. The iceberg, known as A-76, was first spotted by a British Antarctic Survey researcher May 13. It was then confirmed by the U.S. National Ice Center (USNIC) the next day using images from the […]
By Kenny Stancil Over the past five decades, the Arctic has warmed three times faster than the world as a whole, leading to rapid and widespread melting of ice and other far-reaching consequences that are important not only to local communities and ecosystems but to the fate of life on planet Earth. The Arctic Monitoring […]
By Jake Johnson A new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature warns that if the world’s governments fail to meet warming targets set by the Paris climate accord, sea level rise from the melting of the Antarctic ice sheet will accelerate at a “rapid and unstoppable” rate in the coming decades. Authored by researchers […]
Germany’s highest court ruled Thursday that the country’s 2019 climate law unconstitutionally saddles young people with the burden of fighting climate change by “irreversibly offload[ing] major emission reductions burdens onto periods after 2030.” Olaf Scholz, Germany’s finance minister, said the government would rapidly propose legislation to comply with the ruling. The case was brought by […]
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