This Amazing Beach Art Will Give You a Moment of Zen
Artist Andres Amador seeks to highlight the power of the impermanent.
Climate change and the value of daring
The climate system is a unifying ethical field that extends from the physical to the metaphysical and connects your actions to my well-being, and vice-versa, no matter how remote your life is from mine. The collective actions of billions of human beings are threatening the most basic systems which provide life to us all on our little blue planet. We must dare to imagine, explore, and remake the limits of our experience, together.
From floods to forest fires: a warming planet – in pictures
From the Australia to Greenland, Ashley Cooper’s work spans 13 years and over 30 countries. This selection, taken from his new book, shows a changing landscape, scarred by pollution and natural disasters – but there is hope too, with the steady rise of renewable energy.
Antarctic coastline images reveal four decades of ice loss to ocean
A study of images along 2000km of West Antarctica’s coastline has shown the loss of about 1000km2 of ice – an area equivalent to the city of Berlin – over the past 40 years. Researchers were surprised to find that the region has been losing ice for such a length of time. Their findings will help improve estimates of global sea level rise caused by ice melt.
World Heritage and Tourism report shows sites at risk from climate change
Climate change is fast becoming one of the most significant risks for World Heritage sites, according to the report “World Heritage and Tourism in a Changing Climate” released May 27,2016, by UNESCO, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), and the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).
Widespread Warmth Envelops Greenland
The most remarkable aspect here is the incredible departure from 2001-2010 average, especially deep in the ice sheet interior.
Scientists predict extensive ice loss from huge Antarctic glacier
Current rates of climate change could trigger instability in a major Antarctic glacier, ultimately leading to more than 2m of sea-level rise. By studying the history of Totten’s advances and retreats, researchers have discovered that if climate change continues unabated, the glacier could cross a critical threshold within the next century, entering an irreversible period of very rapid retreat.
‘Unusually’ Thin And Fractured Arctic Ice Hints At Yet Another Record Melt
According to new data, the Arctic sea ice melt season is running as much as one month earlier than average. Unless weather patterns change dramatically, that could mean a record year for summer melting of Arctic ice.
Canada’s huge wildfires may release carbon locked in permafrost
More than 80,000 Canadians have been forced to leave their homes this week, in the largest evacuation of its kind in the country’s history. The effects may extend far beyond Canada and Alaska, because of the frozen organic matter under the forest permafrost. Wildfires can strip away the protective vegetative blanket and release all that stockpiled carbon into the atmosphere.