Human use of Earth’s natural resources is making the air, oceans, freshwaters, and soils more acidic, according to a U.S.…
Images taken by the optical and radar instruments on board ESA’s Envisat Satellite orbiting 800 km above the Earth are…
ICESat has provided surface elevation measurements of the ice sheets since the launch in January 2003, resulting in a…
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Alerting message from the Arctic: The extent the the Arctic sea ice has reached on Sep. 8…
A huge network of glaciers, carrying ice thousands of kilometres across Antarctica, has been discovered as…
(Reuters) – Three Himalaya glaciers have been shrinking over the last 40 years due to global warming and two of…
“Water has a much larger heat capacity than air. If you put an ice cube in a warm room, it…
From: Revkin | Jun 24, 2011 |
Bryan Lovell, a longtime oil geologist and president of the Geological Society of London, explains…
The causes of melting of tropical glaciers over the past 10,000 years have at last been unveiled by a team…
In some parts of the world, losses due to erosion are greatly outstripping the natural rate of soil formation; and…
On average, human activities put out in just three to five days, the equivalent amount of carbon dioxide that volcanoes…
THE Earth is a big thing; if you divided it up evenly among its 7 billion inhabitants, they would…
Ingeniøren: Grønland rummer sandsynligvis verdens største depot af sjældne jordmetaller, der i så fald kan dække en fjerdedel af det…
Scientists have known for decades that global climate change has been having an outsized impact on the Arctic, but according…
Shale gas refers to natural gas that is trapped within shale formations. Shales are fine-grained sedimentary rocks that can be…
A vivid picture of our climate’s future can be found in our past. Currently, atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels have…
The following map is a modified version of the earthquake vulnerability map published on Views of the World last month (see…
A new study from The Australian National University has for the first time confirmed that long-term climate change has the…
After just two years in orbit, ESA’s GOCE satellite has gathered enough data to map Earth’s gravity with unrivalled precision.…
A map, which provides a general representation of the risks of earthquakes on humanity using records from the past 4,000…
16.03.2011 | Potsdam: The earthquake disaster on 11 March 2011 was an event of the century not only for Japan.…
Researchers at Texas Tech’s Center for Geospatial Technologies have created a near-real-time map of the aftershocks occurring globally following the…
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Key Fact: New technology developed at Heriot-Watt can search out leaks in carbon capture storage sites even before they have…
This issue examines the nature, scale and status of the Anthropocene as a potential new…
The last century has seen a rapidly growing global population and much more…
The heat in the upper six miles of the earth’s crust contains 50,000 times as much energy as found in…
Many of Asia’s glaciers are retreating as a result of climate change.
This retreat impacts water supplies to millions of people,…
Gary Shaffer, professor ved Niels Bohr Institutet ved Københavns Universitet og leder af det danske Center for Jordens Klima og…
Up to 77 million Bangladeshis have been exposed to toxic levels of arsenic from contaminated drinking water, and even low-level…
In the next 50 years, it is estimated that drinking water needs in the Kabul Basin of Afghanistan may increase…
GEUS frigiver nu en opdateret indgang til digitale data og kort. Udover en ny indgangsside, består opdateringen af nye brugervenlige,…
A group of 255 of the world’s top scientists today wrote an open letter aimed at restoring public faith in…
Plateau Perspectives is an international non-profit organization that aims to promote conservation and sustainable development in the Tibetan Plateau region…
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MACC is developing services to support institutions that are providing advice and warnings related to atmospheric composition.…
Bill McGuire, Richard Betts, Christopher Kilburn, Mark Maslin, David Pyle, John Smellie and David Tappin
Periods of exceptional climate change in…
Experts say suggestions that climate change could trigger more volcanoes and earthquakes are speculative, but there is enough evidence to…
China’s tragic magnitude 6.9 earthquake on April 13 and the recent devastating earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, Mexico, and elsewhere have…
An estimated 122 trillion cubic feet (tcf) (mean estimate) of undiscovered, technically recoverable natural gas are in the Levant Basin…
Dawn of the Anthropocene Epoch?
ScienceDaily (Mar. 26, 2010) — Geologists from the University of Leicester are among four scientists- including…
The status of world oil reserves is a contentious issue, polarised between advocates of peak oil who believe production will…
Connecting Voices Globally to Meet the Challenges of Climate Change, Poverty and Economic Recovery
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On March 25, State of the…
