Tag: Climate change
Global warming begets more warming, new paleoclimate study finds
Researchers observe a “warming bias” over the past 66 million years that may return if ice sheets disappear.
It is increasingly clear that the prolonged...
Earth’s interior is swallowing up more carbon than thought
Scientists from Cambridge University and NTU Singapore have found that slow-motion collisions of tectonic plates drag more carbon into Earth's interior than previously thought.
They...
Earth’s cryosphere is shrinking by 87,000 square kilometers per year
A new study reports the first global assessment of the extent of snow and ice cover on Earth's surface -- a critical factor cooling...
Crushing climate impacts to hit sooner than feared: draft UN report
A draft copy of the upcoming Working Group II (WG2) report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), on the impacts of climate...
World’s largest iceberg breaks off Antarctica: European Space Agency
The world's largest iceberg, around 170 kilometres (105 miles) long and 25 kilometres wide, with an area of 4,320 square kilometres, has broken off...
Climate change helped kill off super-sized Ice Age animals in Australia
Image Credit: Flickr/Ken and Nyetta
During the last Ice Age, Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea formed a single landmass, called Sahul. It was a strange...
Short-lived greenhouse gases cause centuries of sea-level rise
Researchers report that warming from short-lived compounds -- greenhouse gases such as methane, chlorofluorocarbons, or hydrofluorocarbons, that linger in the atmosphere for just a...
Antarctic Ice Sheet study reveals 8,000-year record of climate change
Iceberg in the Weddell Sea. Credit: Mike Weber
An international team of researchers has found that the Antarctic Ice Sheet plays a major role in...
Climate change is already causing widespread local extinction in plant and...
Local extinctions are almost twice as common in tropical species than temperate species.Image Credit: Flickr/Mariya Chorna
Extinctions related to climate change have already happened in...
2016 is set to break even the temperature records of 2015
Global temperatures showing the change from pre-industrial times. The global temperatures for January to September 2016 were approximately 1.2°C above pre-industrial levels and 0.88°C...
The global climate 2011-2015: Hottest five-year period on record
Global five-year average temperature anomalies (relative to 1961--1990) for 2011-- 2015.Credit: The analysis uses HadCRUT4 analysis produced by the Met Office Hadley Centre in...
