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Are Antarctica’s glaciers losing or gaining ice?
This article discusses Antarctica’s melting glaciers. New ice forms in the interior as snow falls and is compacted under its own weight. This new ice then pushes the older ice downhill toward the sea. But now, Antarctic glaciers are losing ice faster than they are gaining it.
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CO2 Levels Reached an 800,000-year High in 2017
This article discusses how CO2 levels reached an 800,000-year high in 2017. That’s just one of many sobering facts about our changing world in the “State of the Climate in 2017” report released late last week.
Using ice cores drilled in Greenland and Antarctica, scientists have a pretty […]
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Studies: Rare good climate news: the fossil fuel industry is weaker than ever – Bill McKibben
This article by Bill McKibben, discusses how many people, the From Wall Street to the pope, increasingly see fossil fuels as anything but a sure bet. That gives us reason to hope.
If you’re looking for good news on the climate front, don’t look to the Antarctic. Last […]
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Discovery helps explain how Greenland’s ice sheet responds to shifting temperatures
This video discusses a tiny clue found in ancient sediment has unlocked big secrets about Greenland’s past and future climate. Northwestern University Professor Yarrow Axford describes how clues found in rare sediment cores indicate that Greenland’s climate during the last two interglacial periods experienced extreme warming. This new information will feed […]
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Listening to James Hansen on Climate Change, Thirty Years Ago and Now
This article discusses scientist James Hansen’s predictions on climate change, back in 1988 through today.
On June 23, 1988—a blisteringly hot day in Washington, D.C.—James Hansen told a Senate committee that “the greenhouse effect has been detected and is changing our climate now.” At the time, Hansen was the head of nasa’s […]
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What will Antarctica look like in 2070? These researchers want to show us.
This article discusses just how bad ice loss is occurring in Antarctica – the Ice Sheet has lost 3 trillion tons in 25 years.
Anthropogenic climate change is causing innumerable changes to our planet. It can be disorienting, as every day brings news of a new extinction or climate […]
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Study: How Melting Arctic Ice Could Cook the Tropics
This article discusses how the loss of sea ice from the Arctic Ocean will alter wind patterns and ocean currents, causing changes across the planet.
Every good horror movie needs a sequel, and the follow-up to the real-life 2015 disaster the Blob is coming soon. But this time, the deadly warming in […]
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Study: Three articles on Antarctic ice melting – it’s not pretty
This article discusses a study that analyzes the impact that Antarctic ice melt will have on the planet.
The collective work, published in this week’s special edition of the journal Nature, assembles a half-dozen papers written by the world’s top experts on Antarctica. It serves as a major update to […]
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Study: Antarctica’s ice sheet is melting 3 times faster than before
This article discusses how fast Antarctic ice is melting – 3 x faster than previously thought.
The melting of Antarctica is accelerating at an alarming rate, with about 3 trillion tons of ice disappearing since 1992, an international team of ice experts said in a new study.
In the last quarter […]
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Study: After Decades of Losing Ice, Antarctica Is Now Hemorrhaging It
This article discusses the rapid increase in glaciers melting in Antarctica. Global warming has already cost the continent 2.7 trillion tons of mass.
Climate change has not been kind to Antarctica. According to a comprehensive new study, global warming has already bled the frigid continent, which is larger than Europe, […]
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