Tag: Climate change
See How Arctic Sea Ice Is Losing Its Bulwark Against Warming...
Compare the extension of older sea ice in the Arctic in September 1984 and September 2016. The older ice is thicker and more resistant...
Latest ocean warming review reveals extent of impacts on nature and...
Credit: © arttmiss / Flickr
Ocean warming is affecting humans in direct ways and the impacts are already being felt, including effects on fish stocks...
Effect of summer melt on Greenland ice sheet
The image above, taken during a high-priority flight that IceBridge carried on Aug. 29, shows Helheim Glacier, with its characteristic wishbone-shaped channels, as seen...
Global warming’s next surprise: Saltier beaches
Researchers have developed models that show that increases in temperature associated with global warming will not only make inland locations more salty, but would...
Current atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations likely commit to warmings greater than...
Current levels of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations already commit the planet to air temperatures over many land regions being eventually warmed by greater than...
A recent pause in Antarctic Peninsula warming
The rapid warming of the Antarctic Peninsula, which occurred from the early-1950s to the late 1990s, has paused. Stabilisation of the ozone hole along...
North American forests unlikely to save us from climate change
A sub-alpine forest in Colorado. Forests in the southwestern US are expected to be among the hardest-hit, according to the projections resulting from the...
Warmer Mediterranean turns the Sahel green
In the past 20 years, the Sahel has become greener because the West African monsoon brings more rain in the sub-Saharan region. A key...
Climate research: How meltwater from the ice sheets disturbed the climate...
The retreating calving front of the Bloomstandbreen glacier on Svalbard (Spitsbergen).Credit: © Alfred-Wegener-Institut/René Bürgi
Today, a negative correlation is observed in the amount of rainfall...
Long-awaited breakthrough in the reconstruction of warm climate phases
Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have overcome a seeming weakness of global climate models. They...
Researchers create means to monitor anthropogenic global warming in real time
A research team including a Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego climate scientist simulated in a computer model, for...
