Climate Change Is Messing with Earth’s Axis
Ice melting has caused a drift in polar motion. Around the year 2000, Earth’s spin axis took an abrupt turn, and scientists have suggested that the loss of mass from Greenland and Antarctica’s rapidly melting ice sheet could be causing the eastward shift of the spin axis.
Researchers turn carbon dioxide into sustainable concrete
The new building material could transform polluting emissions into a valuable resource.
Ex-Mayor 4-year-term jail sentence over storm deaths, overturned by French Court
Overturning the first degree of jurisdiction’s sentence of last December, the former mayor of a Vendée town has been handed by the Poitiers Court of Appeal, a two-year suspended sentence in connection with the deaths of 29 people during Storm Xynthia in 2010.
Is the Ocean Melting the Ice?
Global sea level rise is one of the major environmental challenges of the 21st Century, and Greenland is central to the problem. That massive ice sheet touches the sea along more than 44,000 kilometers of jagged coastline, and the ice sheet is not just melting from warm air temperatures above; it is also likely being melted from water below.
Great Barrier Reef coral bleaching hits “extreme level”
Coral bleaching, a phenomenon that can result in the widespread die-off of coral life, is a serious problem facing the world’s oceans, and according to a new aerial survey of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, 95 percent of the reef’s northern section is now bleached, Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports.
New survey finds a growing climate consensus among meteorologists
96% of American Meteorological Society (AMS) members realize climate change is happening, and most understand humans are responsible…
Scientists Warn of Perilous Climate Shift Within Decades, Not Centuries
The basic claim of the paper, released by a European science journal, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, is that by burning fossil fuels at a prodigious pace and pouring heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere, humanity is about to provoke an abrupt climate shift.
Climate change redistributes global water resources
Rising temperatures worldwide are changing not only weather systems, but — just as importantly — the distribution of water around the globe, according to a study published in the journal, Scientific Reports.
Addressing Climate Change On Several Fronts In The Caribbean, Video
Climate change is already affecting the Caribbean. But there is concern that a gap still exists between what the region’s leaders are saying about the issue and what residents believe.