Half of Late 20th-Century Arctic Warming Caused by Ozone-Depleting Substances – “It’s a Good-News Story”
Implicated in a Third of Overall Global Warming for the Time Period A scientific paper published in 1985 was the first to report a burgeoning…
Global Warming
2019 Was the Second Hottest Year on Record According to Both NASA & NOAA
According to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Earth’s global surface temperatures in 2019 were the second warmest since…
Long-Standing Climate Puzzle Finally Unraveled Thanks to Ancient Marine Fossils
Cardiff University scientists have shed new light on the Earth’s climate behavior during the last known period of global warming over 14 million years ago….
New Material Can Better Capture Carbon Dioxide From Factory/Powerplant Exhaust
Generally speaking, “flue gas” refers to any gas coming out of a pipe, exhaust, chimney etc as a product of combustion in a fireplace, oven,…
Greenland Losing Ice 7 Times Faster Than in 1990s – Lost 3.8 Trillion Metric Tons of Ice Since 1992
Greenland is losing ice seven times faster than in the 1990s and is tracking the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s high-end climate warming scenario, which…
Carbon Emissions From Volcanic Rocks Can Create Massive Global Warming Effects
Greenhouse gas emissions released directly from the movement of volcanic rocks are capable of creating massive global warming effects — a discovery which could transform…
Reindeer Herders at Risk From Vanishing Ice Due to Global Warming
Deep in the Sayan Mountains of northern Mongolia, patches of ice rest year-round in the crooks between hills. Locals in this high tundra call the…
Emperor Penguins Marching Towards Extinction Unless Warming Is Slowed
Emperor penguins are some of the most striking and charismatic animals on Earth, but a new study from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has…
Sea-Level Rise From Antarctic Ice Cliffs May Be Overestimated Because of Faulty Assumptions
Study finds even the tallest ice cliffs should support their own weight rather than collapsing catastrophically. Antarctica’s ice sheet spans close to twice the area…
Global Airborne Mission Finds Tiny Particles Lead to Brighter Clouds in the Tropics
Global airborne mission finds a particle formation is brightening clouds. When clouds loft tropical air masses higher in the atmosphere, that air can carry up…
Researchers Warn: Extraordinarily Warm Temperatures Above Antarctica Cause Hot and Dry Extremes in Australia
Changes in springtime winds high above the South Pole are set to trigger higher than usual temperatures and fire-prone weather conditions in Australia, an international…
New Material Captures Carbon Dioxide and Efficiently Converts It to Useful Organic Materials
A new material that can selectively capture carbon dioxide (CO2) molecules and efficiently convert them into useful organic materials has been developed by researchers at…
Upside-Down “Rivers” of Warm Ocean Water Attacking Antarctic Ice Shelves [Video]
Newly understood factors make ice shelves more vulnerable to breakup according to College of Wooster, University of Colorado at Boulder study. Upside-down “rivers” of warm…
100 Years of Climate Change Visible in Aerial Photographs of Alpine Glaciers
In 1919, the Swiss pilot and photographer Walter Mittelholzer flew over Mont Blanc in a biplane photographing the alpine landscape. Exactly 100 years later, researchers…
Has Global Warming Stopped?
As a result of industrialization, the carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere has increased continuously over the past 100 years, which is considered as the…
2019 Arctic Sea Ice Minimum Tied for Second Lowest on Record [Video]
The extent of Arctic sea ice at the end of this summer was effectively tied with 2007 and 2016 for second-lowest since modern record keeping…
Evolution of Earth’s First Animals Caused Global Warming
The evolution of Earth’s first animals more than 500 million years ago caused global warming, new research shows. Some 520-540 million years ago, animal life…
Eocene Fossil Data Suggest Future Polar Warming Could Be Greater Than Expected
A new international analysis of marine fossils shows that warming of the polar oceans during the Eocene, a greenhouse period that provides a glimpse of…