Summer Sea Ice Likely to Drop to 4th Lowest on Record
The shell of ice that covers the Arctic Ocean is nearing its yearly low point and projections suggest that it will be among the four lowest summer minimums on record.
Watching the Rivers Flow on Greenland
Besides contributing to sea level rise, melt water runoff also accelerates ice loss: when the water percolates through the ice sheet and reaches the rock below, it slightly lifts the ice, helping it flow faster toward the ocean.
10 Years Since Katrina: The Climate Connection is Clear (Op-Ed)
Rising sea levels increase the probability of storm-induced surges. As with Katrina and Sandy, they are often the most destructive aspects of hurricanes…
World Breaks New Heat Records in July: US Scientists
The world broke new heat records in July, marking the hottest month in history and the warmest first seven months of the year since modern record-keeping began in 1880.
Vanishing Stories in a Vanishing Country
One of the clearest, and far-less-talked-about, injustices of climate change is that it threatens to disappear entire countries.
Pilkey’s Call: Save The Beaches
Beaches move, and with rising sea levels they are moving faster. People try to slow or halt the process by dredging up sand or erecting imposing seawalls, but those are destructive and doomed efforts. To save the beaches, we must let beaches go where and how they want.
STOP SHELL’S ARCTIC DRILLING PLANS! NRDC Petition
Shell Oil is racing to sink its drills into the Arctic’s Chukchi Sea — and the Obama Administration has given them the green light. This comes despite the government’s own estimates that there’s a 75% chance of a major oil spill in the Arctic Ocean…
Obama’s Clean Power Plan Hailed as US’s Strongest Ever Climate Action
Hundreds of businesses have issued their support for Barack Obama’s clean power plan, billed as the strongest action ever on climate change by a US president. The rules, announced on Monday, are designed to cut emissions from power plants and have been strengthened in terms of the long-term ambition
Our Environmental Deficit is Now Beyond Nature’s Ability to Regenerate
The world enters ecological ‘overshoot’ this year on 13 August -marking the date when humanity exhausted nature’s budget for the year- six days earlier than last year.