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4/2/2009
A nearly ice-free Arctic Ocean in the summer may happen three times sooner than scientists have estimated, according to researchers at the University of Washington.
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3/16/2009
Coastal erosion has more than doubled in Alaska - up to 45 feet per year - in a 5-year period between 2002 and 2007 along a 40-mile stretch of the Beaufort Sea.
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3/16/2009
The Antarctic Peninsula is one of the most rapidly warming spots on Earth. Now, new research indicates that the changing climate is affecting not just the penguins at the apex of the food chain, but the microscopic life that is the base.
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3/12/2009
Natural releases of carbon dioxide from the Southern Ocean due to shifting wind patterns could have amplified global warming at the end of the last ice age--and could be repeated as manmade warming proceeds, a paper in Science suggests
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2/25/2009
IPY has yielded new scientific insights into climate change, as well new knowledge about pollutant transport, species’ evolution, and storm formation, among many other areas, the report states.
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2/23/2009
Climatologists at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies have found that 2008 was the coolest year since 2000. The analysis also showed that 2008 is the ninth warmest year since continuous instrumental records were started in 1880.
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2/9/2009
Climate change is about to cause a major upheaval in the shallow marine waters of Antarctica. Predatory crabs are poised to return to warming Antarctic waters and disrupt the primeval marine communities.
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2/1/2009
Finding a fossilized, tropical, freshwater, Asian turtle in the Canadian Arctic strongly suggests that animals migrated from Asia to North America directly across a freshwater sea floating atop the warm, salty Arctic Ocean.
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1/29/2009
The existing infrastructure for responding to maritime accidents in the Arctic is limited and more needs to be done to enhance emergency response capacity as Arctic sea ice declines and ship traffic in the region increases, according to the report.
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1/26/2009
A new scientific study led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reaches a powerful conclusion about the climate change caused by future increases of carbon dioxide: to a large extent, there’s no going back.
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