Part of Antarctica has begun thawing unusually fast, leaving scientists...
Antarctic glaciers once thought relatively stable are starting to melt. Evidence from a five-year satellite study of the frozen rivers on the southern Antarctic Peninsula now reveal that these are...
View ArticleIce sheet collapse triggered ancient sea level peak
An international team of scientists has found a dramatic ice sheet collapse at the end of the ice age before last caused widespread climate changes and led to a peak in the sea level well above its...
View ArticleCSIRO AUSTRALIA – Plastic in 99 percent of seabirds by 2050
Researchers from CSIRO and Imperial College London have assessed how widespread the threat of plastic is for the world’s seabirds, including albatrosses, shearwaters and penguins, and found the...
View ArticleWhat’s fueling the Clinton campaign?
HILLARY CLINTON couldn’t help but be spitting mad at the Greenpeace activist who confronted her last week about the money her campaign has taken from the fossil fuel industry, asking the candidate if...
View ArticleDavid Biello – Farm the Oceans to Help Stop Global Warming
The Southern Ocean is a forbidding place, mostly unvisited by humans. Winds of more than 120 kilometers per hour wreak havoc, and waves routinely wash up and over the bow of any ship that dares to...
View ArticleCamilla Alexander-White – The massive problem of microplastics
In today’s world, plastic is an essential raw material. Since their invention in the 1930’s, plastics have become ubiquitous in the manufacture of everyday products. In 2012 the plastics industry...
View ArticleJeff Tollefson – Antarctica’s Southern Ocean May No Longer Help Delay Global...
Joellen Russell wasn’t prepared for the 10-metre waves that pounded her research vessel during an expedition south of New Zealand. “It felt like the ship would be crushed each time we rolled into a...
View ArticleJohn Roulac – Spaceship Earth, Your Main Oxygen Systems Are Collapsing
Yes, Houston, we have a problem: Our oceans are dying. As the brilliant futurist Buckminster Fuller used to point out, our Spaceship Earth is hurtling through space at a great speed. Imagine if someone...
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