by faster | Nov 12, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: NewsAsia DATE: November 13, 2018 SNIP: Even modest temperature rises agreed under an international plan to limit climate disaster could see the ice caps melt enough this century for their loss to be “irreversible”, experts warned on Monday (Nov...
by faster | Sep 13, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: Yale e360 DATE: September 13, 2018 SNIP: From their perch on a rocky ridge in southwestern Greenland, graduate students Rebecca Walker and Conor Higgins peer through binoculars, looking for caribou. It’s a cool, June day and the tundra is ablaze with tiny...
by faster | Apr 19, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: Inside Climate News DATE: April 19, 2018 SNIP: [T]emperatures are rising in the Arctic at about twice the global average. That causes melting around the edges of the ice sheet each year and reaches across more of the surface during summer heat waves. In areas...
by faster | Mar 28, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: The Washington Post DATE: March 28, 2018 SNIP: Scientists who crossed western Greenland with a fleet of snowmobiles, pulling up long cylinders of ice at camps a little more than a mile above sea level, have found evidence that the vast sheet of ice is melting...
by faster | Mar 14, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: University of Cambridge DATE: March 14, 2018 SNIP: Researchers from the UK, Norway, US and Sweden have used a combination of 3D computer modelling and real-world observations to show the previously unknown, yet profound dynamic consequences tied to a growing...