PRESS RELEASE, UT Austin Institute for Geophysics. A study of nearly 40 years of satellite imagery has revealed that the floating ice shelves of a critical portion of West Antarctica are steadily losing their grip on adjacent bay walls, amplifying an already accelerating loss of ice to the sea.
Continue reading →By Lester Haines, The Register. Five days before an earthquake the number of male common toads in a breeding colony fell by 96 perent, and two days later the number of breeding pairs suddenly dropped to zero.
Continue reading →By Tamino, Open Mind. With the bulk of the fluctuations due to natural factors removed, the continued course of global warming since 1979 is undeniable. Five different measures of the eath surface and lower-atmosphere temperatures agree on this, and the last two years (2009 and 2010) were the two hottest.
Continue reading →By Steve Connor, The Independent. From the Arctic sea to the Antarctican ice shelves, the frozen “cryosphere” is showing the unequivocal signs of climate change.
Continue reading →By Patrick Lynch, NASA | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The calving of a huge iceberg at Pine Island Glacier is being closely watched by scientists, who consider it to be the largest source of uncertainty in global sea-level rise projections.
Continue reading →By Dauna Coulter, NASA Science News. The weather in the USA has been positively wild. NASA climatologist Bill Patzert blames this on a different suspect: La Nada.
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