by faster | Oct 24, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: Yale Environment 360 DATE: October 24, 2019 SNIP: From the deck of a Norwegian research ship, the ravages of climate change in the Arctic are readily apparent. In the Fram Strait, the ocean passageway between Norway’s Arctic islands and the east coast of...
by faster | Oct 21, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: October 21, 2019 SNIP: Ocean acidification can cause the mass extinction of marine life, fossil evidence from 66m years ago has revealed. A key impact of today’s climate crisis is that seas are again getting more acidic, as they absorb...
by faster | Sep 25, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: Mother Jones DATE: September 25, 2019 SNIP: Climate change has already taken an irreversible toll on our oceans and frozen places, warns a major new report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Much of the carbon pollution we’ve...
by faster | Sep 25, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: IPCC DATE: September 25, 2019 SNIP: The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report highlights the urgency of prioritizing timely, ambitious and coordinated action to address unprecedented and enduring changes in the ocean and...
by faster | Jul 8, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: Phys.org and MIT DATE: July 8, 2019 SNIP: Daniel Rothman, professor of geophysics and co-director of the Lorenz Center in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, has found that when the rate at which carbon dioxide enters the...