Global Warming News

RSS

Global Cooling, Fluctuating Sea Levels Caused Significant Decline in Crocodilian Species

Fluctuating sea levels and global cooling caused a significant decline in the number of crocodylian species over millions of years, according to new research.

26 Sep 2015

UAF’s Computer Program Shows How Climate Change Affects Antarctic Ice Sheet

To see how burning up the Earth's available fossil fuels might affect the Antarctic ice sheet, scientists turned to a computer program developed at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute. The ice would disappear, they found, and that conclusion is making headlines across the world.

26 Sep 2015

Purdue Study Shows Majority of Scientists Believe in Human-Caused Climate Change

A Purdue University-led survey of nearly 700 scientists from non-climate disciplines shows that more than 90 percent believe that average global temperatures are higher than pre-1800s levels and that human activity has significantly contributed to the rise.

25 Sep 2015

Deep-Sea Fossil Corals Help Understand Earth’s Last Deglaciation

In a paper published today in Science, researchers from the University of Bristol describe how they used radiocarbon measured in deep-sea fossil corals to shed light on carbon dioxide (CO2) levels during the Earth’s last deglaciation.

25 Sep 2015

NAUSICAA Announces Diary of Events and Press Trip Invitations

The ocean is essential for our life on Earth. It covers three-quarters of our planet, regulating the climate, playing a part in the life cycle of water and influencing the quality of the air we breathe. Preserving the world's oceans is therefore a major ecological issue.

24 Sep 2015

Study Reveals When and Where First Clear Signs of Global Warming Appeared

The indications of climate change are all around us today but now researchers have revealed for the first time when and where the first clear signs of global warming appeared in the temperature record and where those signals are likely to be clearly seen in extreme rainfall events in the near future.

24 Sep 2015

CAGE Deploys Two Methane Observatories in the Arctic Ocean

It is not only the space agencies that launch landers with sensors to far away places . Marine science institutions have a lot of unknown ground to cover in their quest for knowledge. Also they are depending on groundbreaking lander and sensor technology to lead them to that knowledge.

23 Sep 2015

Climate Change Induces Upslope Migration of Tropical Plants in Ecuador

The plants on the highest mountain in Ecuador have migrated more than 500 meters to higher altitudes during the last two centuries. This is determined in a new study, in which Aarhus University researchers compared Humboldt's data from 1802 with current conditions.

15 Sep 2015

Study Reveals Antarctic Ice Would Completely Melt if All Global Fossil-Fuel Resources are Burnt

Burning all of the world's available fossil-fuel resources would result in the complete melting of the Antarctic ice sheet, a new study to be published in Science Advances shows. The Antarctic ice masses store water equivalent to more than 50 meters of sea-level rise.

14 Sep 2015

First Online Global Permafrost Database Could Serve as Early Warning System

This Saturday at a conference in Quebec, Canada an international research team will present the first online data portal on global permafrost. In the Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost researchers first collect all the existing permafrost temperature and active thickness layer data from Arctic, Antarctic and mountain permafrost regions and then make it freely available for download.

14 Sep 2015