Ice Melt

The thermal expansion — water swelling as it warms — is expected to raise sea levels 12 inches

Climate Change

Icebergs Hiving off Chile’s Giant Grey Glacier at Alarming Rate

AFP

A United Nations study in 2018 found that 95 percent of Chile’s 24,100 glaciers had receded

Climate Crisis

2/3s of Himalayan Glaciers to Melt by 2100, Threatening Water for 2 Billion People

AFP

The Himalayan glaciers, which formed some 70 million years ago, are highly sensitive to changing temperatures.

Climate Change

Global Warming caused Enormous city-sized Hole discovered in Antarctic Glacier

Juan Cole

In an academic paper in the journal Science Advances nestles a short sentence that at first glance is hard to detach from the specialist prose and mathematical formulas that dot it. On profile T3-T4, we confirm the formation of a cavity 4 km [roughly 2 and a half miles] wide by 350 m [0.2 miles] […]

Ice Melt

Ominous: Annual Antarctica Ice Loss Increases 6-Fold over 1979 Rate

AFP

“As the Antarctic ice sheet continues to melt away, we expect multi-meter sea level rise from Antarctica.”

Climate Change

Seas Surge as Pace of Antarctica Ice Loss Triples in 5 Yrs: 3 Trillion Tons Melted

AFP

Antarctica has lost a staggering three trillion tonnes of ice since 1992, according to a landmark study published Wednesday

Climate Change

Massive Melting in Arctic is a Danger Signal of Manmade Climate Change

Mark Serreze

Scientists have known for a long time that as climate change started to heat up the Earth, its effects would be most pronounced in the Arctic. This has many reasons, but climate feedbacks are key. As the Arctic warms, snow and ice melt, and the surface absorbs more of the sun’s energy instead of reflecting […]

Climate Change

Climate change victims need official refugee status: Oxfam

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By Marion Candau | EURACTIV.fr | translated by Paola Tamma | – – With the COP23 climate conference ongoing in Bonn, Oxfam published a troubling report on people displaced by climate change. EURACTIV France reports. Since 2008, about 26 million people have been displaced each year due to natural disasters. The figure for 2016 was […]

Denialism

Under Trump, Arctic Refuge to be Ravaged by Oil Drills

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By Subhankar Banerjee | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – What happens in the Arctic doesn’t just stay up north. It affects the world, as that region is the integrator of our planet’s climate systems, atmospheric and oceanic. At the moment, the northernmost places on Earth are warming at more than twice the global average, a […]