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Through most of the last decade, mountain glaciers and ice caps around the globe collectively lost 148 billion tons of ice a year, according to new satellite measurements. Skip to next paragraph Are you scientifically literate? Take our quiz NASA satellites reveal colossal ice melt, greenhouse gasses blamed Huge chunk of Antarctic ice sheet set [...]
Continue Reading Ice caps not shrinking as much as once thought, new data show
The Isthmus of Tehuantapec, Mexico‘s narrowest point, is a powerful wind tunnel of air currents whipping through the mountains that separate the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Skip to next paragraph Graphic: The Isthmus of Tehuantepec is one of the world’s most continuously windy spots. Those who have come to extract the wind as a resource [...]
Continue Reading The ‘wind rush’: Green energy blows trouble into Mexico
Like the oil drilling rig that became an icon of the Industrial Age, the giant, spinning wind turbine has become a global image of clean power. Skip to next paragraph Graphic: Reaping the wind (Rich Clabaugh/Staff) In Pictures: The dirty side of wind energy The ‘wind rush’: Green energy blows trouble into Mexico Where wind provides [...]
Continue Reading Wind power: Clean energy, dirty business?
Using cheap, readily available materials, a team of chemists has developed a new compound for drawing carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. Skip to next paragraph Gallery: Rising seas An ‘ARE YOU SMARTER THAN AL GORE?’ energy quiz New hybrid sharks discovered: Signs of global warming? Yellowstone grizzly bears: New cause célèbre for effects of [...]
Continue Reading Carbon dioxide super-scrubber? Potential good news in global warming fight.
Using cheap, readily available materials, a team of chemists has developed a new compound for drawing carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. Skip to next paragraph Gallery: Rising seas An ‘ARE YOU SMARTER THAN AL GORE?’ energy quiz New hybrid sharks discovered: Signs of global warming? Yellowstone grizzly bears: New cause célèbre for effects of [...]
Continue Reading Carbon dioxide super-scubber? Potential good news in global warming fight.
Even more than their high-profile polar cousins, Yellowstone grizzly bears could become the newest cause célèbre for how global warming is threatening ecosystems worldwide. Skip to next paragraph In Pictures: Yellowstone wildlife In Pictures: Climate change and animals For tourist and grizzly bear, a team of referees Yellowstone grizzly attack: Why did it happen? Grizzly [...]
Continue Reading Yellowstone grizzly bears: New cause célèbre for effects of global warming?
Global warming has brought a new normal to the Arctic, with warmer air and ocean temperatures, thinner and less expansive summer sea ice, and greener vegetation in coastal regions abutting the open water. Skip to next paragraph The five coldest places on Earth Extent of Arctic summer sea ice at record low level Opinion: Drilling [...]
Continue Reading Global warming: winners and losers in the Arctic’s ‘new normal’
Delegates from 191 countries and the European Union opened UN-sponsored talks Monday in Durban, South Africa, amid deeply divisive questions over when and how to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol with an agreement that is legally binding on all major greenhouse-gas emitters, not just developed countries. Skip to next paragraph The talks are taking place [...]
Continue Reading The climate news is bad, but prospects for climate talks may be worse
Global warming is increasing the frequency and ferocity of some extreme-weather events, highlighting the need for governments at all levels to reduce vulnerabilities and increase the resilience of their citizens to such events. Skip to next paragraph In Pictures: Huge hurricanes That’s according to a new report from the United Nations-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate [...]
Continue Reading Climate change warning: brace for hotter heat waves, stronger storms
Earthquakes in Oklahoma? Rodgers and Hammerstein didn’t see that one coming. Skip to next paragraph In Pictures: US natural disasters of 2011 Indeed, this week’s temblors in the Sooner State highlight the challenge scientists face as they try to improve earthquake-hazard assessments in the central and eastern United States, particularly across the lower half of [...]