Tag: Global Warming Effects - Page 11
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Melting Permafrost in the Arctic is Some Truly Scary S%*t
Perhaps the most dreaded climate 'feedback loop', thawing permafrost in the Arctic may unleash a torrent of heat-trapping methane and CO2. Here's what you need to know.
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Texas Tops List of 10 States Worst-Ravaged By Natural Disasters in 2011
Texas' spectacular year-long extreme drought pushes in to the top of the list. Record-breaking tornadoes, heat, flooding and snowfall took a heavy toll elsewhere.
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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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Rush Limbaugh Named Climate Change Misinformer of the Year (Video)
And the award couldn't go to a more deserving individual ...
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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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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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More Polar Bears Turn to Cannibalism to Avoid Starvation
As melting ice in the Arctic cripples the bears' ability to hunt, they are resorting to killing and eating their own more often.
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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 Breaks Yearly Record For Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters
In terms of human lives, 65% of all people killed by weather events in 2011 died in these natural disasters.
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Massive Digital 'Realitrees' Would Broadcast Global Climate Health
One of the top concepts to emerge from PSFK's 'Gaming for Good' salon was a giant digital tree that grows or withers according to global climate health.
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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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The Last Climate Science-Respecting GOP Candidate Turns to Denial
Jon Huntsman gets the denial bug.
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Swiss Ski Season Start Stalled, As Alps Suffer From Driest Autumn on Record
Switzerland has experienced its driest autumn on record, which as it gives way to the start of winter means that little to no snow has fallen yet. Though some bigger resorts have been able to open some terrain, with the help of snowmaking, many have not.
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Sea Levels Will Rise Much Faster Than Previously Predicted, Says New Report on Antarctic Polar Ice Melt
Low-lying land could disappear beneath the sea even faster than currently predicted. Scientists credit high quality databases in breakthrough discovery.
