Climate Science
Butterflies Respond to Climate Change by Moving North
Part-time butterfly watchers in Massachusetts have taken more than 19,000 expeditions over the past two decades. The result of their work: northern butterflies are becoming increasingly rare, even as southern species take their …
Climate Change Equals Hot Summers. Case Closed.
An unusually explicit climate scientist drops the hedging and says what more and more people believe
The Grand Canyon in Antarctica
A team of British researchers have discovered a rift in the rock of West Antarctica that runs as deep as the Grand Canyon. The Ferringo rift as its called is bringing more warm sea water into the interior of the Antarctic ice …
VIDEO: Giant Iceberg Breaks Off Greenland Glacier
An enormous iceberg tore away from Greenland glacier on Monday. This incredible video shows how much the glacier has lost over the past few years
The Value of Google Earth’s Antarctic Expedition
Antarctica is the definition of remote. The southern-most continent on the planet is also the coldest and most forbidding; the only way to get there is via countless plane flights, and just about the only people who travel there …
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Scientists Find That Climate Change Stalls Reef Growth
It happened 4000 years ago and, if we keep polluting, it will happen again.
Surf’s Up: Sea Levels Are Rising Faster on the U.S. East Coast
It’s usually a bad idea to generalize too much about anything – particularly science, where different selection pressures and environmental one-offs can tweak a basic model into something quite out of the ordinary. Take sea …
How Climate Change Is Growing Forests in the Arctic
If there’s a single lesson for early 21st century life on the planet Earth, it’s this: everything connects. That’s true whether we’re looking at the global economic system, in which sickness is now spreading from the euro zone to …