H. D. Pritchard, S. R. M. Ligtenberg, H. A. Fricker, D. G. Vaughan, M. R. van den Broeke & L.…
ESA: As ESA’s Envisat satellite marks ten years in orbit, it continues to observe the rapid retreat of one of…
In October, 2011, NASA’s Operation IceBridge discovered a major rift in the Pine Island Glacier in western Antarctica. This crack, which extends…
“Water has a much larger heat capacity than air. If you put an ice cube in a warm room, it…
For eons, the polar marine food chain has been closely linked to the seasonal formation and retreat of sea ice.…
Stronger ocean currents beneath West Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf are eroding the ice from below, speeding the melting…
The West Antarctic ice sheet is a potential tipping element of the climate system that might have partially tipped already. According…
APECS is an international and interdisciplinary organization for undergraduate and…
The National Science Foundation’s Office of Polar Programs is making available a new full-color, extensively illustrated booklet that highlights the…
The ozone “hole” over Antarctica could be increasing the amount of rainfall as far away as the subtropical regions of…
There is increasing concern among scientists that ocean acidification, the so-called “evil twin” of climate change, could affect the functioning…
(Reuters) – Two of the most well-known penguin species in Antarctica — chinstraps and Adelies — are under pressure because…
According to a new NASA-funded satellite study, the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass at an accelerating pace…
The average ocean temperature has increased about 1 degree Fahrenheit in recent decades, said Sven Thatje, an evolutionary biologist at…
Ice is melting at accelerating rates in the Arctic, Antarctica, Greenland, and glaciers all over the world. Arctic summer sea…
According to NOAA scientists, 2010 tied with 2005 as the warmest year of the global surface temperature record, beginning in…
Carbon dioxide already emitted into the atmosphere will keep contributing to global warming for centuries, eventually causing a huge Antarctic…
Ny forskning viser, at dybhavsvandet ved den antarktiske halvø trænger op til overfladen, og at vandet er så varmt, at…
Scientists have previously shown that West Antarctica is losing ice, but how that ice is lost remained unclear. Now, using…
Global warming is sneaky. For more than a century it has been hiding large amounts of excess heat in the…
Cancún, 03.12.10: With the today published Climate Risk Index 2011 in Cancun, Germanwatch has, for the sixth time, examined which…
United Nations climate change negotiations have failed to deliver an agreement on reducing future greenhouse gas emissions to levels that…
The fringes of the coldest continent are starting to feel the heat, with the northern Antarctic Peninsula warming faster than…
Climate change is set to drive the spread of invasive plant and animals species, threatening forests, fisheries and crops, in…
On September 23, 2010, in a briefing on “Extreme Weather in a Warming World” before the House Select Committee on…
Details of the annual International Media Excellence Awards run by the Association for International Broadcasting
Welcome to the AIBs People’s Choice…
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From WWF International, 7 September 2010….
Stockholm, Sweden– The impacts of climate change…
The 2009 State of the Climate report draws on data for 10 key climate indicators that all point to the…
A new interactive Google Earth map showing the impacts of a 4 °C warmer world was launched today by the…
PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency found no errors that would undermine the main conclusions in the 2007 report of the…
The first comprehensive synthesis on the effects of climate change on the world’s oceans has found they are now changing…
The IPY Oslo Science Conference is to demonstrate, strengthen, and extend IPY’s remarkable accomplishments in science and outreach.
Conference Website: http://ipy-osc.no/
The…
All the data you need to show that the world is warming
April 14, 2010: Posted by: Scott A. Mandia, Professor…
A Met Office review of the latest climate research confirms our planet is changing rapidly and man-made greenhouse gas emissions…
Peter Sinclair, from Greenman Studio LLC, has generated a video about the body of scientific evidence on climate change. It…
credit: ESA
5 March 2010
This animation, made up of eight Envisat radar images, shows the 97-km long B-9B iceberg (right) ramming…
Compared with other mountainous regions worldwide, Himalayan glaciers are losing mass faster than European glaciers but slower than those in…
credit: wwf
Until earlier this month, the “tongue” of the Mertz Glacier extended 160 km into the Southern Ocean from the…
At 94 kilometers (58 miles) by 39 kilometers (24 miles) in size, the B-09B iceberg is comparable to the state…
credit: Barbara Wienecke
26 February 2010
A massive iceberg, measuring 78 kilometres long and 39 kilometres wide, has calved from the Mertz…
Each year, scientists at NASA’S Goddard Institute for Space Studies analyze global temperature data. The past year, 2009, tied as…
Ice shelves are retreating in the southern section of the Antarctic Peninsula due to climate change. This could result in…
Two-thirds of Antarctica is a high, cold desert. Known as East Antarctica, this section has an average altitude of about…
The annual United Nations climate conference is underway in Copenhagen, Denmark, with the aim of negotiating an agreement to succeed…
Glaciers respond directly and quickly to atmospheric conditions. As temperatures warm, summer melting increases. However, accumulation of ice in the…
At the United Nations climate negotiations in Copenhagen, the International Geosphere-Biosphere programme launches the IGBP Climate-Change Index.
The index brings together…
A giant iceberg 140 square kilometres – 19km long by 8km wide – in size is drifting slowly north from…
