Melting permafrost will release more carbon
By John DeFore We’re already used to worrying about at least one set of issues when it comes to melting caused by global warming: that water entering oceans from disintegrating arctic ice may cause...
View ArticleResearchers planning a hot time in the arctic
From Green Right Now Reports Scientists at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory aren’t content to wait to see the effects of global warming in the arctic. Now, they are planning to speed up the process to...
View ArticleWhy Arctic sea ice was lower than ever in 2010
(The following blog by Jay Gulledge, Senior Scientist and Director of the Science and Impacts Program for the Pew Center for Global Climate Change, was first posted on the website of the Pew Center for...
View ArticleNASA scientists find phytoplankton blooms under Arctic ice
From Yale Environment 360 For the first time, scientists have discovered extensive blooms of phytoplankton under Arctic Ocean ice, contradicting the widely held conviction that such blooms could not...
View ArticleOne US company has vowed to help orca whales trapped by Canadian ice
A pod or family of orca whales struggling for their lives in a shrinking ice hole north of Quebec may finally have attracted human rescuers. Kasco Marine Inc., a company that makes marine equipment...
View Article‘Chasing Ice’: Powerful film captures gorgeous, undeniably vanishing glaciers
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Climate change is altering the planet in fearsome ways. Ice is melting, oceans are warming, drought is sizzling crops, heat is fueling wildfires and storms are...
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