Tag: Greenland - Page 3
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All The News That's Fit To Print: In The NY Times
Lots of relevant reading in the Sunday Times: Rethinking
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Artists-Scientists Join Forces in Arctic Climate Expedition
This week, a 100-year old Dutch schooner packed with artists and oceanographic researchers (and a handful of media reps, including yours truly) will set sail from the island of Spitsbergen (roughly 500 miles north of Norway) to traverse the 78th
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TreeHugger Radio: Greenland's Bounce-back, Norway's Organic Prison, and Seattle's Goats
This week, Jasmin Malik Chua looks at how Greenland’s melting glaciers are causing bedrock bounce-back, and what this means for earthquakes and volcanoes on the top of the world. Stan Cox tells how the go-go housing boom left America with an extra large
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Putting the Sex Back in Climate Change
Call it a lascivious attempt to get more hits: we call it a more titillating take on an otherwise dour topic. Courtesy of New Scientist, we have two new studies that connect the dots between global warming, pollution and sex — exploring their effects
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Using GPS to Track Global Warming
One tricky aspect of measuring the rate of melting of Greenland and Antarctica's huge ice sheets has been accounting for an effect known as "post-glacial rebound" of the Earth's crust. This effect — which occurs when the crust is relieved of the burden
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Sea Level Rise this Century Higher than Previously Thought
We will most likely see larger than previously expected increases in sea levels over the next century according to a recent study conducted by a team of researchers from the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado,
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Global Warming Causing Plant, Bird and Insect Species to Appear Earlier than Expected
It looks as though global warming has been doing much more than just alter climate regimes and physical environments: it's actually been shifting seasons forward as well. A new report in Current Biology has shown that spring in Greenland now starts much
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NASA Finds Greenland Becoming More Green by the Day
Greenland may be on its way to earning its namesake far sooner than expected: recent research conducted by scientists at NASA indicates that the island nation experienced more days of melting snow in 2006 than it has on average. Daily observations taken
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Positive Reinforcement: The Economist on Feedback Loops
The Economist has run a few loopy articles lately that make one question the value of a subscription. However sometimes they get it right, perhaps when the writer gets out of his/her (you don't know, they never have bylines in the Economist) stuffy
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Most Huggable: The DOE Goes Solar, The Inuit go to Washington, and London's Farmers Beat the Olympics
The US Department of Energy finally starts walking the walk at headquarters and decides to go solar…
