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Past Climate Of Northern Antarctic Peninsular Informs Global Warming Debate
The seriousness of current
global warming is underlined
by a reconstruction of
climate at Maxwell Bay in
the South Shetland Islands
... > full story
Changing Arctic Affecting Air, Ocean, And Everything In Between
Despite the fact that summer
2009 had more sea ice than
in 2007 or 2008, scientists
are seeing drastic changes
in the region from just five
... > full story
Antarctica Glacier Retreat Creates New Carbon Dioxide Store; Has Beneficial Impact On Climate Change
Large blooms of tiny marine
plants called phytoplankton
are flourishing in areas of
open water left exposed by
the recent and rapid melting
... > full story
Seafloor Fossils Provide Clues To Climate Change
Deep under the sea, a fossil
the size of a sand grain is
nestled among a billion of
its closest dead relatives.
Known as foraminifera, these
complex little shells of ca ... > full story
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Lightning's 'NOx-ious' Impact On Pollution, Climate
November 6, 2009 — More than 1.2 billion lightning flashes occur around the world every year. Each of those billion lightning flashes produces a puff of nitrogen oxide gas (NOx) that reacts with sunlight and other ... > full story -
Innovative Plan To Save Rainforest, Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
November 5, 2009 — An innovative proposal by the Ecuadorian government to protect an untouched, oil rich region of Amazon rainforest is a precedent-setting and potentially economically viable approach, says a team of ... > full story -
Calm Before The Spawn: Climate Change And Coral Spawning
November 4, 2009 — Biologists have explained why corals spawn for just a few nights in some places but elsewhere string out their love life over many months. A new study shows that corals spawn when regional wind ... > full story -
Green Is Cool, But US Land Changes Generally Are Not
November 4, 2009 — Most land use changes occurring in the continental US result in raised regional surface temperatures, according to new research. The study found that almost any change that makes land cover less ... > full story -
North Atlantic Fish Populations Shifting As Ocean Temperatures Warm
November 4, 2009 — About half of 36 fish stocks in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean, many of them commercially valuable species, have been shifting northward over the last four decades, with some stocks nearly disappearing ... > full story -
Newly Drilled Ice Cores May Be The Longest Taken From The Andes
November 4, 2009 — Researchers spent two months this summer high in the Peruvian Andes and brought back two cores, the longest ever drilled from ice fields in the tropics. This latest expedition focused on a ... > full story -
Report On US-China Collaboration On Carbon Capture And Sequestration
November 4, 2009 — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Julio Friedmann, in collaboration with the Center for American Progress, the Asia Society Center and with partner Monitor Group, today released the report, "A ... > full story -
Professor To Predict Weather On Mars
November 4, 2009 — Is there such a thing as "weather" on Mars? There are some doubts, considering the planet's atmosphere is only 1 percent as dense as that of the Earth. Mars, however, definitely has clouds, ... > full story -
Deep-sea Ecosystems Affected By Climate Change
November 3, 2009 — Deep-sea ecosystems occupying 60 percent of the Earth's surface could be vulnerable to the effects of global warming, warn ... > full story -
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Climate Change Could Create Agricultural Winners And Losers In East Africa, New Study Warns
November 3, 2009 — As African leaders prepare to present an ambitious proposal to industrialized countries for coping with climate change in the part of the world that is most vulnerable to its impacts, a new study ... > full story
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