The Great Salt Lake Is Drying, Antarctica Is Sweltering — The Knock-On Effects Of Climate Change Are Everywhere

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2024 23:28:06 +0000

The ‘Great Salt Lake is drying, Antarctica is overheating. What does it all mean? It means we humans need to pick up our game.

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Solar Power in The Arctic & Antarctica

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2023 21:05:28 +0000

Nowhere in the world do beauty and harshness combine quite like in the Arctic and Antarctica. These incredible environments are difficult to live in. Yet they also offer us a unique opportunity to research millions of years of climate, environmental, and even human history. In this article, we explore how solar can and is being […]

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Ozone Depletion Over North Pole Causes Weather Anomaly

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2022 20:40:43 +0000

Researchers at ETH Zurich prove that the depletion of ozone over the Arctic in spring causes abnormal weather throughout the northern hemisphere. In many places it will be warmer than average and dry — or too wet. Many people are familiar with the ozone hole over Antarctica. What is less well known is that the […]

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Iceberg C-38 Has Calved as the Conger Ice Shelf Broke Free in the Wilkes Land Region

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2022 08:46:12 +0000

The U.S. National Ice Center (USNIC) has confirmed that iceberg C-38 (Figure 1, below) has calved from the Conger Ice Shelf in the Wilkes Land Region of Antarctica. As of March 17, C-38 was centered at 65° 40′ South and 102° 46′ East and measured 16 nautical miles on its longest axis and 10 nautical […]

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Last Month in Climate Science: More Injury-Related Deaths, Mass Seabird Die-Off, River Ice Disappearing

Credit to Author: World Resources Institute| Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 23:54:43 +0000

Common murres experienced a mass die-off in the North Pacific in 2015-2016. Photo by D. Roseneau/U.S. Fish and Wildlife ServiceEvery month, climate scientists make new discoveries that advance our understanding of climate change’s causes and impacts. The research gives a clearer picture of the threats we already face and explores what’s to come if we don’t reduce emissions at a quicker pace

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NASA Images Show Antarctica’s Eagle Island Almost Ice-Free

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2020 02:58:21 +0000

ice-freeNASA images show a new side of Antarctica, an almost ice-free side. The images show a breathtaking view, and not in the sense that one would have when looking at something beautiful. I am sure it is beautiful, but for our planet, that melted ice has to go somewhere. Just a few days after we wrote about it being warmer in Antarctica than Louisiana, the highest temperatures ever recorded at Argentina’s Esperanza research station arrived: 65 degrees Fahrenheit. The gif image below tells a chilling story that is just heating up

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