Latest Stories in Climate Change - Page 16
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Why Can We Bail Out the Banks, But Not Our Planet? Monbiot Lets Loose
Making progress at climate summits looks like "using a donkey to tow a 44-tonne truck" says George Monbiot. So why can international banking bail outs be agreed in days?
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Glaciers Melting From Within Behind Rapid Ice Mass Loss in South America & Himalaya
New video from Nepal shows one glacier filling a lake from its interior meltwater, plus new research shows that 90% of world's glaciers are indeed in retreat.
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40% of Earth's Land To Undergo Major Ecosystem Change Due To Global Warming
It's equal parts exiting and terrifying to think about, large areas of the Earth's land surface changing for forest to grassland, from grassland to desert, from tundra to forest.
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Melting Swedish Glaciers Show Treeline Was 600m Higher Just 4,400 Years Ago
Sweden's glaciers aren't remnants of the Ice Age, and their melting reveals what may be in store for us as the climate continues to warm.
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Is The Arctic Methane Situation Really As Bad As Headlines Make It?
Most of the methane in the east Siberian shelf is trapped 200m below the seafloor. Even under the most extreme climate scenarios tested, by 2100 thaw will only extend 10 more meters and 50 meters by 2200.
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2011: The Year in Environmental Disasters
The meltdown at Fukushima, flooding, droughts and storms killed tens of thousands, cost billions, and are sobering reminders of the damage we inflict on the planet and ourselves.
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Time To Sign Up For An End Times Cult? - Arctic Permafrost Gushing Massive Plumes Of Methane.
Arctic Sea gushing tons of methane skyward as permafrost melts, let's hope it's not too late to save ourselves.
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Newt Gingrich is Working on a Book About Climate Change
The presidential hopeful may pander to Tea Party naysayers in public, but he's actually almost ready to publish a book that acknowledges the reality of climate change.
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Universal Guidelines for Climate Reporting Would Better Serve the Public
If journalists and scientists could agree on what good science reporting should look like, their guidelines would look something like this...
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Climate Change Causing National Park Peak Attendance To Come Earlier In Summer
Since the late 1970s the date of peak attendance in US national parks has shifter four days earlier, with the greatest variation in places with warmer spring temperatures.
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Chilean Glacier Recedes Half-Mile in Just One Year
Unlike severe weather or other anomalies in climate patterns which can often seem like one-off events, these images of a receding glacier offer evidence that detrimental changes to our planet's health do not just lie before us, but are well underway.
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Map Shows the 3,000 Record-Breaking Extreme Weather Events to Hit U.S. in 2011
The NRDC has put together an interactive mapping tool that reveals the astonishing number of record-breaking extreme weather events that wracked the U.S. so far this year.
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350.org Radiowaves Helps You Get in Tune With the Planet
350.org launches a new hub for climate-related music and videos.
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Record-Breaking Snow As Well As Warmth: Weather Weirding in New England This Fall
Even as October saw record-breaking snow, several New England states experienced their warmest autumn on record.
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US Youth Steal the Show at the UN Climate Talks in Durban
As official negotiations stagnate, young activists turn up the pressure to force a real solution at COP17.
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French Glaciers Have Melted 25% Since The 1970s
That rate of decline is an average however, the research shows. In the southern part of the French Alps glacier loss has been nearly complete, and in the Ecrins Massif the rate of retreat has been three times as great as in the Mont Blanc region.
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Why 2020 is Too Late for the Climate
The United States has argued that a legally-binding climate agreement is impossible until 2020 but there's a problem: By then it will be too late.
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The Calm Before the Storm at the Durban Climate Talks
Negotiations begin to heat up at the UN Climate Conference in Durban, South Africa.
