Earthquake Births New Island off Pakistan, NASA Images
The main driving force for the emergence of islands in this part of the world is highly pressurized methane gas. Several of these islands have appeared off the 700-kilometer-long Makran coast in the past century.
An Island Emerged off Gwadar Coast After a Deadly Earthquake of 7.7
In a rare development, an island emerged off Gwadar coast after a powerful earthquake of 7.7 magnitude struck Pakistan on Tuesday.
What It Means To Be 95 Percent Certain About Climate Change
Top scientists from a variety of fields say they are about as certain that global warming is a real, man-made threat as they are that cigarettes kill.
Making Local People Stewards of the Earth
The lack of land rights is a crisis not just for local people but for all of humanity, warned organisers at an international conference here.
Walrus Forced To Alaskan Shores In Droves As Arctic Sea Ice Dwindles
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is taking steps to protect hundreds of walrus that have gathered on Alaska’s northwest coast.
The Coastal Consciousness of John Gillis
Climate change is real and serious, but was not last fall’s “natural disaster,” like Katrina and like all the rest to come, as much about human failures, in infrastructure, planning, and our proclivity for building homes on shifting sandbars, as it was natural catastrophe? Those questions aren’t new.
New World Map for Overcoming Climate Change
Using data from the world’s ecosystems and predictions of how climate change will impact them, scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society, the University of Queensland, and Stanford University have produced a roadmap that identifies the world’s most vulnerable and least vulnerable areas in the Age of Climate Change.
Costa Concordia in Italy Freed From Rocks
Engineers were successful on Monday in shifting the hull of the Costa Concordia ocean liner from the Italian reef where it has lain stricken since January 2012, according to reports…
Unprecedented Rate and Scale of Ocean Acidification Found in the Arctic
Acidification of the Arctic Ocean is occurring faster than projected according to new findings. The increase in rate is being blamed on rapidly melting sea ice, a process that may have important consequences for health of the Arctic ecosystem.