Causes Credit: Steve Jurvetson/Flickr Siberia’s ice is melting, revealing its past and endangering its future Sheets of the softening land have emerged for the first time in hundreds of thousands of years, revealing skeletons, disease and awakening life.
CausesDavid Seibold/Flickrhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/ A revelation about trees is messing with climate calculations Trees make clouds by releasing small quantities of vapors called “sesquiterpenes.” Scientists are learning more—and it’s making climate models hazy.
CausesKimon Berlin/Flickrhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ The Arctic is a freezer that’s losing power As glaciers retreat, methane-rich groundwater is bubbling to the surface. That may be warming the climate, accelerating the Arctic’s rapid decline.
Causes Photo by Olha Fedchenko on Unsplash Melting Arctic glaciers are triggering the release of methane Scientists found that rapidly retreating Arctic glaciers are triggering the release of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that causes global temperatures to rise, into the atmosphere.
CausesDavid Stanley/Flickrhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The melting glaciers of Svalbard offer an ominous glimpse of more warming to come New research reveals what one scientist called a “very stark image of climate change” as methane leaks from springs exposed by the glaciers’ retreat.
Impacts3D illustrationBigStock Photo ID: 462556899Copyright: bennymartyAvailable for extended license use Scientists are baffled why the oceans are warming so fast Climate scientists can’t agree on what, exactly, has triggered such rapid warming and how alarmed they should be.
Top StoryFrancisco Javier Garcia Orts/Flickr/Commercial use & mods allowedhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ Warming and drying climate puts many of the world’s biggest lakes in peril A new global study of lakes shows water levels falling and finds a global warming fingerprint.
