Total Arctic Ice Volume for March 2010 is 20,300 km^3, the lowest over the 1979-2010 period and 38% below the…
Record-breaking summer temperatures and the warmest year to date in 131 years are wreaking havoc on the global environment, say…
Arctic sea ice appears to have reached its annual minimum extent on 10 September. The minimum ice extent was the…
The latest Crock of the Week from Peter Sinclair, featuring a great overview from NASA’s Tom Wagner and a compelling…
Argentina’s glaciers, along with Chile’s the most extensive of South America, manifest the damage caused by climate change, while they…
A massive ice island four times the size of Manhattan that broke off the Petermann Glacier early last month has…
Many of Asia’s glaciers are retreating as a result of climate change.
This retreat impacts water supplies to millions of people,…
An expanded network of boreholes across the northern hemisphere has confirmed that permafrost throughout polar and sub-polar regions is thawing,…
Envisat has been observing a rare event in the Arctic since early August – a giant iceberg breaking off the…
A new interactive Google Earth map showing the impacts of a 4 °C warmer world was launched today by the…
I juli 2010 når NEEM-boringen bunden efter tre sæsoners boring. På bunden findes is fra den sidste mellemisperiode, hvor klimaet…
In January, when the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change acknowledged that it was wrong in predicting that the…
Floods, droughts, wildfires, windstorms, water contamination and illnesses plague the 1.3 billion people who live in the watersheds directly supplied…
In May, Arctic air temperatures remained above average, and sea ice extent declined at a rapid pace. At the end…
The polar ice caps have been shrinking in summer and expanding in winter for millions of years. But in the…
The Arctic is locked into a destructive cycle that could see its icy cover rapidly disappear, scientists have confirmed. A…
When scientists talk about ice loss from the Greenland ice sheet, they refer to gigatonnes of ice. One gigatonne is…
All the data you need to show that the world is warming
April 14, 2010: Posted by: Scott A. Mandia, Professor…
One of the largest ice sheets in Canada’s high Arctic has been swiftly shrinking in recent decades as a result…
A huge glacier broke off and plunged into a lake in Peru, causing a 75-foot (23-meter) tsunami wave that swept…
ESA PR 07-2010. Europe’s first mission dedicated to studying the Earth’s ice was launched today from Kazakhstan. From its polar…
With the melting Arctic Ocean emerging as “a new Mediterranean” in the minds of many, the five nations sharing its…
The IGBP Climate-Change Index brings together key indicators of global change: atmospheric carbon dioxide, temperature, sea level and sea ice.
About…
Stockholm Resilience Center: Centre director Johan Rockström among prominent list of speakers at State of the Planet 2010.
Rockström was among…
Arctic circle: Flickr
New developments in the north reveal that Arctic states are training for a future arctic resource race, Jody…
A new study has lowered the carbon pollution threshold or “tipping point” for collapse of the Greenland ice sheet to…
A new assessment of the Arctic’s biodiversity reports a 26 per cent decline in species populations in the high Arctic.
Populations…
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Mar 9, 2010 (Tierramérica) – Climate change science has come under full-scale attack in a last-ditch effort to…
credit: ESA
5 March 2010
This animation, made up of eight Envisat radar images, shows the 97-km long B-9B iceberg (right) ramming…
A review from the UK Met Office says it is becoming clearer that human activities are causing climate change.
It says…
A section of the Arctic Ocean seafloor that holds vast stores of frozen methane is showing signs of instability and…
Compared with other mountainous regions worldwide, Himalayan glaciers are losing mass faster than European glaciers but slower than those in…
Global Warring: How Environmental, Economic, and Political Crises Will Redraw the World Map
Cleo Paskal must be cursing the publishing gods.…
China is preparing for the Arctic being navigable during summer months. An ice-free Arctic would provide China shorter shipping routes,…
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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…
Program Summary: Human caused climate change is well underway and almost certain to continue in the decades ahead. Comprehensive risk…
Ice shelves are retreating in the southern section of the Antarctic Peninsula due to climate change. This could result in…
According to newly published letter from NASA and university researchers in Nature Geoscience (Rapid submarine melting of the calving faces…
We must not be distracted from science’s urgent message: we are fuelling dangerous changes in Earth’s climate.
* Jeffrey Sachs *…
The southern limit of permafrost around the James Bay region in Quebec has moved 80 miles to the north since…
At TED2010, Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world’s energy future, describing the need for “miracles” to avoid planetary…
This figure tracks newspaper coverage of climate change or global warming in 50 newspapers across 20 countries and 6 continents.
Max…
January 31, 2010 marked the deadline for parties to the Copenhagen Accord to submit their respective plans for reducing greenhouse…
