By Matthew Chin21 June 2016 (UCLA) – Even with this winter’s strong El Niño, the Sierra Nevada snowpack will likely take until 2019 to return to pre-drought levels, according to a new analysis led by UCLA hydrology researchers. Additionally, they suggest their new method, which provided unprecedented detail and precision, could be useful in characterizing […]
By Kate Ravilious20 June 2016 (environmentalresearchweb) – Mapping high-latitude Arctic regions is a thankless task right now. Hillsides are vanishing overnight, new lakes and ponds are coming and going every week, and streams and rivers are changing course frequently. This restless landscape is due to permafrost thaw. Now a study reveals that in some regions […]
By Elvira Jiménez and Erlend Tellnes20 June 2016 (Greenpeace) – The beauty of the Arctic is overwhelming. The cold, the silence and extraordinary sounds as the ice creaks, rumbles and falls. The pristine environment, with life popping out to welcome you when you least expect it. A unique place that people across the world […]
16 June 2016 (NOAA) – The State of the Climate is a collection of monthly summaries recapping climate-related occurrences on both a global and national scale. Global highlights: May 2016 The May temperature across global land and ocean surfaces was 1.57°F above the 20th century average of 58.6°F. This was the highest for May in […]
By Michael Slezak6 June 2016 (Guardian) – It was the smell that really got to diver Richard Vevers. The smell of death on the reef. “I can’t even tell you how bad I smelt after the dive – the smell of millions of rotting animals.” Vevers is a former advertising executive and is now the […]
15 June 2016 (NOAA) – The Earth passed another unfortunate milestone 23 May 2016 when carbon dioxide (CO2) surpassed 400 parts per million (ppm) at the South Pole for the first time in 4 million years. The South Pole has shown the same, relentless upward trend in CO2 as the rest of world, but its […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 16 June 2016 (AGU) – New research shows permafrost below shallow Arctic lakes is thawing as a result of changing winter climate. Warmer winters combined with an increase in snowfall during the last 30 years have limited the growth of seasonal lake ice. In response, lakebed temperatures of Arctic lakes less than 1 […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 1 June 2016 (AGU) – Part of Antarctica has been losing ice to the ocean for far longer than had been expected, satellite pictures reveal. A study of images along 2000 kilometers (1,240 miles) of West Antarctica’s coastline has shown the loss of about 1000 square kilometers (about 390 square miles) of ice […]
By Chris Mooney and Brady Dennis 31 May 2016 (Washington Post) – As summer temperatures finally settle in, many in the United States take it for granted that they can dial down the thermostat: Americans use 5 percent of all of their electricity cooling homes and buildings. In many other countries, however — including countries […]
14 June 2016 (Siberian Times) – The abnormally hot weather has seen temperatures some 8C above average across a vast swathe of southern Siberia. On 12 June – Russia Day – new records were set in Novosibirsk (30.4C) and Tomsk (31.5C), and in Tuva Republic (31.7C). The Saudi Arabian-like heat wave, still ongoing, has stretched […]
