By Douglas Fischer and The Daily Climate August 16, 2010 Glaciers in one of the world’s last tropical ice caps will be gone within a matter of years, rather than the decades thought previously, according to an Ohio State University researcher who has spent his career probing the world’s ice fields. When they go, a […]
The Greenland ice sheet is melting at a record rate due to global warming, according to a British-led expedition currently taking measurements from the treacherous glaciers. By Louise Gray, Environment CorrespondentPublished: 7:00AM BST 13 Aug 2010 The University of St Andrews team said 106 square miles broke away from the Petermann Glacier at the beginning […]
Last updated: 11 August 2010 Several regions of the world are currently coping with severe weather-related events: flash floods and widespread flooding in large parts of Asia and parts of Central Europe while other regions are also affected: by heatwave and drought in Russian Federation, mudslides in China and severe droughts in sub-Saharan Africa. While […]
By Alister Doyle, Environment CorrespondentTue Aug 10, 2010 11:14am EDT OSLO (Reuters) – Smoke from forest fires smothering Moscow adds to health problems of “brown clouds” from Asia to the Amazon and Russian soot may stoke global warming by hastening a thaw of Arctic ice, environmental experts say. “Health effects of such clouds are huge,” […]
The man who coined the term “global warming” looks back at 35 years of climate change. By ELIZABETH DICKINSON AUGUST 3, 2010 Wallace Broecker has written some 460 academic papers in his half-century-long career as a geologist. But this week, everyone seems to remember just one of them: an Aug. 8, 1975, paper in Science […]
BBC6 August 2010 A giant sheet of ice measuring 260 sq km (100 sq miles) has broken off a glacier in Greenland, according to researchers at a US university. The block of ice separated from the Petermann Glacier, on the north-west coast of Greenland. It is the largest Arctic iceberg to calve since 1962, […]
By Catherine Lagrange and Bate Felix; editing by David Stamp LYON, France (Reuters) – A pocket of water big enough to fill 20 Olympic pools, trapped inside a glacier on Mont Blanc, could burst at any time and endanger lives in a French Alpine valley, officials said Thursday. Researchers at the National Center for Scientific […]
Scientific evidence that our world is warming is unmistakable has been released today in the 2009 State of the Climate report, issued by US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The report draws on data from 10 key climate indicators that all point to that same finding — the world is warming. The 10 indicators […]
Jakobshavn Glacier, 14 July 2001 Jakobshavn Glacier, 10 July 2010 For most of the past century, the Jakobshavn Glacier, or Jakobshavn Isbræ, along the west coast of Greenland has extended out into the ocean as a long, narrow ice tongue. The glacier drains a large portion of Greenland’s ice sheet, and consequently, the […]
By Louise Gray, Environment CorrespondentPublished: 12:42PM BST 18 Jul 2010 The two pictures show an “alarming” retreat in ice over more than 80 years. The first was taken in 1921 by British mountaineer George Mallory, who later died trying to conquer Everest. The Asia Society commissioned the same picture to be taken of the main […]
