Tag: Global Warming
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...
Tropical cyclones on track to grow more intense as temperatures rise
NASA's Terra satellite captured this image of Super Typhoon Nepartak approaching Taiwan on July 7.Credit: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response/Jeff Schmaltz
Powerful tropical cyclones like...
Ice algae: The engine of life in the central Arctic Ocean
The Arctic pteropod Clione limacina. Credit: Image courtesy of Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
Algae that live in and under...
Expanding Antarctic sea ice linked to natural variability
The sea ice surrounding Antarctica has been slowly increasing in area since the satellite record began in 1979. But the rate of increase rose...
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...
Siberian larch forests are still linked to the ice age
A new study shows that the flora of the Northern Russian permafrost lags behind the climate often by several thousand years. Credit: © Klim...
Permafrost thawing below shallow Arctic lakes
Shallow lakes on the Coastal Plain of Alaska. New research finds permafrost below shallow lakes such as these is thawing as a result of...
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...
