ANCHORAGE, Alaska Feb 12, 2008 (AP) Arctic sea ice next summer may shrink below the record low last year, according to a University of Washington climatologist. Ignatius Rigor spoke Monday at the Alaska Forum on the Environment and said global warming
The Guardian, Saturday February 23, 2008There was a time when I thought I wouldn't have children. I worried about the terrible things the world would do to them. I also worried about what they would do to the world.Then a fellow environmentalist assured
I'm going to a more formal review of this book along with another one tonight or tomorrow over at Futurist.com, but I wanted to post my experience of reading it here.Vanishing World is a picture book. As far as I can tell, it's goal is to show us what
BBC News, Science Section, Sunday, 24 February 2008, 00:24 GMTUK scientists working in Antarctica have found some of the clearest evidence yet of instabilities in the ice of part of West Antarctica. If the trend continues, they say, it could lead to
Ice boulders left behind after a flood caused by the overflowing of a lake in Greenland. Photograph: Uriel Sinai/Getty images The Guardian, Tuesday, February 5, 2008Scientists have long agreed that climate change could have a profound
With Almond Pollination Under Way, New Signs of Trouble Emerge2.19.2008 10:13 a.m.Editor's Note: Maryam Henein is working with George Langworthy on The Vanishing of the Bees, a documentary film about colony collapse disorder (CCD) and the state of honey
by Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News, 15 February 2008Global warming is setting the stage for an invasion of predators on the sea floor around Antarctica, the likes of which have not been there for more than 40 million years. Back in the late Eocene epoch,
Monday, 4 February 2008, 01:31 GMTIf the world is to end the threat from climate change, we need to produce more with less energy, says Mark Moody Stuart. In this week's Green Room, he outlines his vision that will help society fulfil this goal.
by Pallab GhoshScience correspondent, BBC News, Monday, 4 February 2008, 22:54 GMT Many of Earth's climate systems will undergo a series of sudden shifts this century as a resultof human-induced climate change, a study suggests.
By Sarah Mukherjee Environment correspondent, BBC News, Monday, 4 February 2008, 18:56 GMT It's a truly, breathtakingly
19:00, 31 January 2008, NewScientist.com news service, Jim GilesThe water shortages gripping the western US are the result of global warming, not natural variations in climate, according to a bleak study by hydrologists. The results suggest that water
It must be one of the most dangerous places on Earth to be doing science. Last month, researchers landed on the Pine Island glacier in Antarctica to prepare to make measurements on the ice in the area. The work is crucial. Without it, evidence suggesting
today. It's pretty cold all over the Northwest, reportedly from a La Nina year. Implies the ocean currents have a more immediate affect than the warming trend.On Friday morning, as I was leaving for a weekend workshop on the Oregon coast, the front
This "60 Minutes" report and interview with Dr. James Hansen was aired in 2006; however, it is still very important to keep in mind that not much has changed or improved since the segment was shown. Recently, certain nameless bloggers on the "Dot Earth"
