By Scott Sutherland26 July 2013 (Geekquinox) – Scientists’ eyes have been glued to the Arctic this past week, as a summer cyclone has been tearing through the sea ice at the north pole. Ice melting at the North Pole during the summer months isn’t exactly a rare occurrence, but what’s remarkable is the speed and […]
By Nafeez Ahmed 24 July 2013 (The Guardian) – A new paper in the journal Nature argues that the release of a 50 Gigatonne (Gt) methane pulse from thawing Arctic permafrost could destabilise the climate system and trigger costs as high as the value of the entire world’s GDP. The East Siberian Arctic Shelf’s (ESAS) […]
By Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent 24 July 2013 (The Guardian) – Republicans in Congress who reject the science behind climate change could soon be reduced to political fossils, with new polling on Wednesday suggesting three-quarters of young voters find such views “ignorant, out of touch, or crazy”. The bipartisan poll conducted for the League […]
By Jeff Goodell 12 July 2013 (Rolling Stone) – A few weeks ago, on a blue-sky day on the west coast of Greenland, our helicopter swooped along the calving front of the Jakobshavn glacier, flying dangerously close to a 400-foot-high wall of ancient melting ice that stretches for about six miles across Disko Bay. Jakobshavn […]
By Andrew Freedman 22 July 2013 (Climate Central) – In a sign of how swiftly and extensively climate change is reshaping the Arctic environment, a new study has found that the region’s mighty boreal forests — stands of mighty spruce, fir, and larch trees that serve as the gateway to the Arctic Circle — have […]
By Becky Oskin 23 July 2013 (LiveScience) – Instead of snow and ice whirling on the wind, a foot-deep aquamarine lake now sloshes around a webcam stationed at the North Pole. The meltwater lake started forming July 13, following two weeks of warm weather in the high Arctic. In early July, temperatures were 2 to […]
By Constance Gustke, Special to CNBC.com 17 Jul 2013 (CNBC) – Three straight years of blistering drought have strained Texas’ water resources. Some cities like Midland are already steeply raising their water prices. But it’s not just residents of the Lone Star State feeling parched. Texas-based companies are scrambling to reduce their water usage and […]
President Obama has unveiled a proposal to combat global warming that would, for the first time, regulate carbon dioxide emissions from all U.S. coal-fired power plants. Yale Environment 360 asked a group of experts to assess the president’s climate strategy. 22 July 2013 (Yale Environment 360) – Stymied by Congress, and no longer weighed down […]
By Evan J. Berkowitz18 July 2013 (Boston Globe) – Rising sea levels brought on by climate change are threatening some of New England’s signature coastal birds, according to a new study. The National Wildlife Federation recently released Shifting Skies, a large study accompanied by a more local report by the Natural Resources Council of Maine, […]
By Andrew Freedman22 July 2013 (Climate Central) – With Arctic sea ice thinning and shrinking rapidly in recent years, the US military and scientific agencies are scrambling to cope with the looming prospect of a seasonally ice-free Arctic Ocean. With Arctic sea ice thinning and shrinking rapidly in recent years, the US military and scientific […]
