Winter Heat Swamps Alaska
While much of the continental United States endured several cold snaps in January 2014, record-breaking warmth gripped Alaska. Spring-like conditions set rivers rising and avalanches tumbling. A persistent ridge of high pressure off the Pacific Coast fueled the warm spell, shunting warm air and rainstorms to Alaska instead of California, where they normally end up.
Alaska’s Arctic Icy Lakes Lose Thickness
The ubiquitous shallow icy lakes that dominate Alaska’s Arctic coastal plain have undergone a significant change in recent decades.
Greenland’s Fastest Glacier Reaches Record Speeds
Jakobshavn Isbræ (Jakobshavn Glacier) is moving ice from the Greenland ice sheet into the ocean at a speed that appears to be the fastest ever recorded. Researchers measured the dramatic speeds of the fast-flowing glacier in 2012 and 2013.
Six Decades of a Warming Earth, NASA Video
This visualization shows how global temperatures have risen from 1950 through the end of 2013.
Climate-Induced Migration Creates Perils, Possibilities
For Pacific islands like Tuvalu and Kiribati, the implications of climate change are clear, and devastating. Already, these governments have begun to plan for a future in which entire populations have to relocate as their islands vanish under the rising sea. But climate change also threatens ways of life in subtler ways, leaving families around the world to work out for themselves how to cope.
Kenya To Generate Over Half Of Its Electricity Through Solar Power By 2016
Kenya has identified nine sites to build solar power plants that could provide more than half the country’s electricity by 2016.
Study Sheds Light on Effects of Clouds on Warming
Australian and French scientists believe they have cracked one of the great puzzles of climate change and arrived at a more accurate prediction of future temperatures.
Indonesian Indigenous Groups Fight Climate Change With GPS Mapping
Land rights are intrinsically linked to sustainability, and to mitigating climate change by preserving the earth’s forests, which are he “lungs of the planet.” Over the generations Indigenous peoples’ have learned to live sustainably and have a keen understanding of a forest’s limitations, making them a crucial component to maintain the environment and address climate change.
Christmas Storm Underlines Caribbean’s Vulnerability
The death and destruction caused by a slow-moving, low-level trough bringing intense rainfall in three Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries over the Christmas holidays, is a sign that the region has no time to lose in fortifying its resiliance to climate change.