by faster | Sep 21, 2017 | Blog
SOURCE: The New Yorker DATE: September 21, 2017 SNIP: Every spring, in alpine regions around the world, one of Earth’s tiniest migrations takes place. The migrants are single-celled green algae; they are kin to seaweed, but instead of living in the sea they live in...
by faster | Feb 20, 2017 | Blog
SOURCE: CBC News DATE: February 20, 2017 SNIP: Canada’s glaciers are responding rapidly to a warming Arctic and are a major contributor to sea level rise, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of California Irvine studied data collected from 1991...
by faster | Feb 1, 2017 | Blog
SOURCE: Scripps Institution of Oceanography DATE: February 1, 2017 SNIP: In the cold depths along the seafloor, Antarctic Bottom Waters are part of a global circulatory system, supplying waters rich in oxygen, carbon, and nutrients to the world’s oceans. Over the last...
by faster | Apr 15, 2016 | Blog
SOURCE: Slate DATE: Eric Holthaus AUTHOR: April 13, 2016 SNIP: On Monday, Greenland began to melt. Parts of Greenland melt every year and the whole thing freezes again each winter, but lately, thanks to global warming, the melting has come earlier and then peaked in...
by faster | Jan 13, 2016 | Blog
SOURCE: Accuweather.com DATE: January 13, 2016 SNIP: New research led by the University of Leuven (Belgium) and assisted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison indicates that cloud cover over the Greenland Ice Sheet is playing a larger role than previously thought by...
