Tag: Climate change
Ocean warming primary cause of Antarctic Peninsula glacier retreat
Icebergs calved off from the glaciers in Marguerite Bay, Antarctic Peninsula. Credit: Alison Cook
A new study has found for the first time that ocean...
First signs of healing in the Antarctic ozone layer
A simulation of the Antarctic ozone hole, made from data taken on October 22, 2015.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (edited by MIT News)
Scientists...
Climate study finds human fingerprint in Northern Hemisphere greening
Earth system models simulate Northern Hemisphere greening. Figure shows the spatial distribution of leaf area index trends (m2/m2/30yr) in the growing season (April-October) during...
Cosmopolitan snow algae accelerate melting of Arctic glaciers
Red pigmented snow algae darken the surface of snow and ice in the Arctic. Credit: Liane G. Benning/GFZ
The role of red pigmented snow algae...
Final Kyoto analysis shows 100% compliance
All 36 countries that committed to the Kyoto Protocol on climate change complied with their emission targets, according to a scientific study released today....
Future summers could regularly be hotter than the hottest on record
If greenhouse gas emissions remain unabated. virtually every summer between 2061-2080 could be hotter than any in the historical record. Credit: © Modern Event...
Parts of Philippines may submerge due to global warming
More than 167,000 hectares of coastland -- about 0.6% of the country's total area -- are projected to go underwater in the Philippines, especially...
Climate change could trigger tropical evacuations, researchers advise
The map above, contained in the Hsiang-Sobel paper, reflects a logarithm calculating the minimum distance an organism must travel to maintain the average temperature...
Greenland sets melt records in 2015 consistent with ‘Arctic amplification’
Study recorded record melts in Greenland. Credit: Professor Edward Hanna of the University of Sheffield
Following record-high temperatures and melting records that affected northwest Greenland...
Slowing of landslide flows reflects California’s drying climate
Photo captures one of the California landslide sites studied by the UO's Georgie Bennett and Joshua Roering. The research team they led found that...
Antarctic coastline images reveal 4 decades of ice loss to ocean
This image shows part of the coastline along the Bellinghausen Sea in West Antarctica, where satellite data has revealed four decades of ice loss...