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Are The Alps Growing Or Shrinking?
The Alps are growing just as
quickly in height as they
are shrinking. This
paradoxical result comes
from a new study by a group
of German and Swiss
geoscientists. Due to
... > full story
Seafloor Fossils Provide Clues On 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
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
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
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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 -
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 -
Snows Of Kilimanjaro Shrinking Rapidly, And Likely To Be Lost
November 3, 2009 — The remaining ice fields atop famed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania could be gone within two decades and perhaps even sooner, based on the latest survey of the ice fields remaining on the mountain . ... > full story -
Snail Fossils Suggest Semiarid Eastern Canary Islands Were Wetter 50,000 Years Ago
November 2, 2009 — Isotopic measurements performed on fossil land snail shells found in ancient soils on the subtropical eastern Canary Islands resulted in oxygen isotope ratios that suggest the Spanish archipelago off ... > full story -
North Carolina Sea Levels Rising Three Times Faster Than In Previous 500 Years, Study Finds
October 29, 2009 — An international team of environmental scientists has shown that sea-level rise in North Carolina is accelerating, a jump that appears to have occurred during a time of industrial ... > full story -
Arctic Lake Sediments Show Warming, Unique Ecological Changes In Recent Decades
October 27, 2009 — An analysis of sediment cores indicates that biological and chemical changes occurring at a remote Arctic lake are unprecedented over the past 200,000 years and likely are the result of human-caused ... > full story -
Climate Events Let Ice Age Mammoths Pass Far Below 40 Degrees North Latitude
October 27, 2009 — Europe's southern-most skeletal remains of a mammoth were unearthed in a moor on the 37 degree N latitude. This is considerably south of the inhospitable habitat than one usually imagines for ... > full story -
Volcanoes Played Pivotal Role In Ancient Ice Age, Mass Extinction
October 26, 2009 — Researchers here have discovered the pivotal role that volcanoes played in a deadly ice age 450 million years ago. Perhaps ironically, these volcanoes first caused global warming -- by releasing ... > full story -
Treaty To Limit Carbon Dioxide Should Be Followed By Similar Limits On Other Greenhouse Pollutants
October 26, 2009 — While carbon dioxide is the main greenhouse gas and the focus of climate treaties, other pollutants that stay in the atmosphere for only days or months also contribute to global warming. Researchers ... > full story -
Arctic Sediments Show That 20th Century Warming Is Unlike Natural Variation
October 25, 2009 — The possibility that climate change might simply be a natural variation like others that have occurred throughout geologic time is dimming, according to new evidence. The research reveals that ... > full story
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