Tag: Global Warming Effects - Page 15
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Mainstream Media Mostly Miss Climate Connection in Their Extreme Weather Reporting
Here at TreeHugger while we're well aware that in the moment it's difficult to ascribe how much climate change is influencing any single extreme weather event, we're also confident in making the climate connection. Not so
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Arctic Sea Ice May Expand Or Contract Over Next Decade, Before Disappearing By Mid-Century
Apropos of Arctic sea ice melting on track to set a new record low this year: There's some new research on how quickly we might see an entirely ice-free summer. Scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research
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Why Was July 2011 So Hot Across The US? (Explainer)
There's likely no need to remind most TreeHugger readers how hot the summer of 2011 has been in the United States. We're still in the sweaty middle of it in many places. Even so, let's take stock a bit: How unusually hot has
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The Platypus Faces Extinction As Australia Heats Up
As a mammal that lays eggs, has a duck's bill, a beaver's tail, an otter's feet and a venomous spur on its foot (males only), the platypus is a one of a kind animal. I mean that literally: it is the only
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Fungi Thriving in a Warmer World Suspected in Mass Forest Extinctions
Image: Dominic/CC Pandas and tigers make better poster children for human impacts on biodiversity. But in the face of news like the massive recall of turkey meat with antibiotic resistant salmonella, it is worth remembering that altering the
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Arctic Ice Still Melting, But We May Never See An Actual Tipping Point
There's no doubt that Arctic sea ice is melting at record rates, with rising temperatures in the region outpacing the global average increase, but a new article in Science questions whether there will ever be a tipping point in Arctic ice
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New Maps from NRDC Show How Warming Will Affect Your Health
Curious about how changing global temperatures will affect your area? The NRDC has released new maps that show how a shift in climate may impact health, from allergies to outbreaks of Dengue fever. NRDC writes, "Climate change is one of
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Arctic Sea Ice Sets New Record Low For July
New data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center shows that the average Arctic sea ice extent in July set a new monthly record low--even though the rate of ice loss slowed "substantially" in the last two weeks of the month.
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Piece of Space Shuttle Columbia Surfaces in Drought-Dried Texas Lake
It can be amazing what we discover as weather and climate cause landscapes to shift shape. Texas has been the latest victim of serious droughts, and as lakes dry, what's been hiding in them for years surfaces --
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Kenyan Refugee Camp For Victims of Record-Breaking Drought Now As Big As Kansas City
Some updates on the ongoing situation in the Horn of Africa, where thousands of people are being forced to flee fromrecord-breaking drought and, in certain places, outright famine--all of which is, at least in part,
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UK Growing Its Own Tea, Olives & Hot Peppers As Climate Warms
While by most accounts climate change will have a negative impact on agriculture as a whole, posing an additional challenge in feeding a human population increasing to an estimated 9 billion people over the
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Melting Arctic Ice Releases Stored Toxic Chemicals
As if the threat of rising sea-levels due to rising global temperatures weren't enough cause for concern, new research suggests that as arctic ice melts, it may be releasing much more than just water. According to researchers
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Record Nighttime High Temperatures Bigger Deal For Health, Crops, Climate Than Daytime Highs
We've written about this one a number of time previously, but it bears repeating: Though there have been plenty of record high daytime temperatures set in this most recent heatwave, perhaps the more interesting and
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How This Latest Heatwave Isn't Like Ones We've Had In The Past: Context & Nature
Let's take as given that there have always been weather extremes, both hot and cold, throughout history and there is indeed a component of natural variability at play. But that's far from the whole story. If
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Heat, Drought, Famine All Part Of Coming 'Exponential' Increase Of Climate-Related Disasters
With half of the United States under heat advisories, 22 people dead (and counting) from the extreme weather, the Horn of Africa experiencing the strongest drought in over half a century and famine conditions
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Driest Place On Earth Covered In 32" Of Snow (Photo)
File this one in the recent weather weirding category: NASA has released a satellite photo (h/t Mongabay) showing the Atacama desert in South America getting hit with a snow storm that has dumped up to 32" of snow across parts of it--the
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Arctic Sea Ice Melt On Track To Set New Record Low in 2011
New images from the National Snow and Ice Data Center show the Arctic Sea Ice extent in the first half of July continues to rapidly decline, to the extent that it is tracking below what was seen in
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Why Are Cattle Drought Deaths Across Texas Being Blamed on Too Much Water?
This summer has thus far been brutal across the nation. Drought and high temperatures are making life difficult for farmers and ranchers alike. And it's no surprise that widespread drought in Texas specifically is causing the
