Tag: Arctic
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Climate News Recap: Heat Record Ratios Rise, Underestimated Extinction Rates & More on Siberian Methane
Here's what's catching our eye in the latest climate headlines. Mostly grim stuff no doubt but this is the climate we're creating, and being forced to adapt to. Time to face the music.
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Elizabeth Kolbert on Climate Denier Politicians and Why Extreme Weather is the New Norm (Podcast)
The New Yorker's Elizabeth Kolbert on global warming science and Republican climate denial.
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Shell Gets Approval To Drill in Arctic, Spills 14,000 Gallons in Gulf of Mexico
The two aren't causally linked of course, but the symbolism and timing is pure tragicomedy.
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Digging Beneath the Surface of Frozen Planet (UPDATED)
Much has been made about a new BBC/Discovery show, Frozen Planet. For clarity, we asked a few people at Discovery to explain.
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Permanently Protect the Arctic From Oil Drilling
How does a Wisconsinite who grows pickles on a hobby farm become an Arctic Hero?
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Greenland Ice Sheet Melting Not Stopped By New Snowfall - Ties For Record Ice Loss
New research from the City University of New York shows how record ice loss can occur even in years without record-setting temperatures.
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The Week in Pictures: Cloud Travel, a Vertical Forest in Milan, and More (Slideshow)
We talk a lot about low-impact transportation on TreeHugger, from bikes to electric cars to high speed rail. But this is definitely the first time we've talked about traveling on a floating cloud.
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The Week in Animals News: Mass Animal Escape, Sweaters for Penguins, and More (Slideshow)
Residents of Muskingum County in Ohio got quite a shock this week after dozens of exotic animals broke free from an area wildlife farm and took to the streets and highways.
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After Helping Cause Climate Change, Big Oil Now Set to Profit From Melting Arctic
Oil companies have used part of their profits to engage in efforts designed to convince the public that climate change is a hoax. Now they hope to profit from the Arctic melting climate change is causing.
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BBC Unveils Awesome Frozen Planet Trailer - Series Will Tackle Climate Change (Video)
Holy sh!t. I just watched the trailer for Frozen Planet, the latest nature doc collaboration between the BBC and the Discovery Channel, and it gave me chills. As in, I saw the brief, pixelated, jumpy YouTube teaser, and there they were--full-on chills.
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New Arctic Ozone Hole Could Mean Reductions in Europe's Winter Wheat Crop
You may have heard that there's a massive new ozone hole in the Arctic--the first time there's been one there. Well, ThinkProgress has a good rundown (tag-teaming it seems with Jeff Masters from Weather Underground) on why its really potentially bad
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In 2011 the Arctic's Ozone Layer Hole Grew to an Unprecedented Size
Left: Ozone in Earth's stratosphere at an altitude of approximately 12 miles (20 kilometers) in mid-March 2011, near the peak of the 2011 Arctic ozone loss. Right: chlorine monoxide - the primary agent of chemical ozone destruction in the cold polar
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New Atlas Recognizes World's Newest Island - Direct Result of Climate Change
Image: Wikimedia Uunartoq Qeqertaq is the world's newest island: translated from Inuit as "Warming Island," it was attached to a Greenland peninsula as recently as 2002. But Arctic ice began melting with increasing speed, and Uunartoq Qeqertaq was
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US Arctic Sea Ice Measurements Show No New Record Minimum Set in 2011, Yet
German scientists have just said that Arctic sea ice set a new record low this year, but the US National Snow and Ice Data Center has released its own measurements showing a slightly higher sea ice summer so far . The difference between
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Arctic Sea Ice Sets New Record Low in 2011
After several months of reporting near-record or record monthly levels of Arctic sea ice melting, German researchers now report that a new yearly record low has been set--the area covered by Arctic sea ice has declined to its
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Arctic Sea Ice Declines To Second Lowest Amount on Record in August
New data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center shows that extent of Arctic sea ice in August melted off to the second lowest amount for the month on record. Throughout the month sea ice was near levels witnessed in
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Arctic Sea Ice Volume Set Record Low in 2010, New Model Shows
A new assessment of the total volume of Arctic sea ice last summer--that is, taking into account both the area of sea covered with ice and the thickness of that ice--shows that 2010 set a new record low, beating out 2007 for the
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Exxon, Russia Sign Deal For Arctic Oil, Plus Share Fracking Technology
A new deal has been reached between Exxon and Russian oil firm Rosneft. Under the $3.2 billion agreement oil exploration in the Arctic Kara Sea will take place in what The Guardian describes as "one of the last unconquered
