The pace and scale of climate change may now be outstripping even the most sobering previous predictions, according to a recent report from The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC).
Newly emerging science is directly pointing to some events thought likely to occur in the longer-term are already happening or set [...]
Arctic sea ice appears to have reached its minimum extent for the year, the third-lowest extent since the start of satellite measurements in 1979. While this year’s minimum extent is above the record and near-record minimums of the last two years, it further reinforces the strong negative trend in summertime ice extent observed over the [...]
Extreme weather events in the Arctic will become more common as the winter ice cover retreats, with potentially severe consequences for human activity, says the Sweden-based Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (BCCR).
One of the most visible signs of climate change is the dramatically reduced ice cover in the Arctic. The retreat of the sea ice [...]
The melting of the polar ice caps has been capturing the attention of scientists and climatologists – in fact, people from all walks of life around the world – the past few years due to the dramatic changes taking place within them. The phenomenon affecting both ends of the Earth is considered an unquestionable harbinger [...]
Extreme weather events in the Arctic will become more common as the winter ice cover retreats, with potentially severe consequences for human activity, says the Sweden-based Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (BCCR).
One of the most visible signs of climate change is the dramatically reduced ice cover in the Arctic. The retreat of the sea ice [...]
 I ran across an article published by Worldwatch Institute, Eye on Earth, which rather effectively addresses the state of rapid cliamte changes as related to sea ice melting, particularly in the Arctic, Greenland ice sheet and the Arctic ice cap. While no one really knows when the Arctic ice cap will totally disappear, it is happening very quickly [...]
Scientists are now indicating that there is incontrovertible evidence that the warming in the Arctic Ocean is melting sea ice at an unprecedented rate. This past summer, the area covered by sea ice shrank by more than one million square miles, reducing the Arctic icecap to only half the size it was 50 years ago. For the first [...]
The ocean could rise a meter (about 39 inches) higher than the current sea level in the next 100 years, according to collaborating researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen, England and Finland.  This increase is three times higher than previous predictions.Â
The global climate in the coming century will be 2-4 degrees warmer than today, [...]
While the past 12 months have generally been cooler than previous years due to the La Niña weather pattern, longer-term trends show that the world is still warming due to climate change. According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). 2008 is likely to rank as the 10th warmest year since records started in 1850.
Data shows that [...]
If you think global warming and climate change are new phenomena, you may want to think again. Undoubtedly human activity affects global warming today, but history shows that climate change is cyclical as well.
Information taken recently from a Greenland ice core by an international science team shows that two huge Northern Hemisphere temperature spikes prior to the [...]
Antarctic worms, sea spiders, urchins and other marine creatures living in near-shore shallow habitats are regularly pounded by icebergs. New data suggests this environment along the Antarctic Peninsula is going to get hit more frequently. This is due to an increase in the number of icebergs scouring the seabed as a result of shrinking winter [...]
