SOURCE: CBS News, AP News DATE: July 29, 2017 SNIP: After 24 days at sea and a journey spanning more than 6,214 miles, the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica has set a new record for the earliest transit of the fabled Northwest Passage. The once-forbidding route through...
SOURCE: National Geographic DATE: July 25, 2017 SNIP: Yet another floating mass of microscopic plastic has been discovered in the ocean, and it is mind-blowingly vast. A new discovery of a massive amount of plastic floating in the South Pacific is yet another piece of...
SOURCE: DavidSuzuki.org DATE: April 26, 2017 SNIP: Groundbreaking new research estimates fugitive methane emissions from B.C. oil and natural gas operations — the majority of which use hydraulic fracturing (fracking) — are at least 2.5 times higher than reported by...
SOURCE: Columbia University Earth Institute DATE: April 19, 2017 SNIP: In the first such continent-wide survey, scientists have found extensive drainages of meltwater flowing over parts of Antarctica’s ice during the brief summer. Researchers already knew such...
SOURCE: American Geophysical Union via Eureka Alert DATE: April 18, 2017 SNIP: Climate change is causing thick ice deposits that form along Arctic rivers to melt nearly a month earlier than they did 15 years ago, a new study finds. In the past, river icings have...
