Climate

Climate change and permafrost loss

CO2 flux chambers measure the change in air composition in the summer warming experiment by Susan Natali of the research team. The Alaska Range look down on the scene from...

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Costing 21st Century coastal flooding

So many cities worldwide are threatened by sea-level rise, resulting from greenhouse gas effect. It's likely that the threat could help energise people to try and prevent the floods before...

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Winners and losers in the great warming!

The pine marten, Martes martes, is uncommon, even in its woodland habitat in Scotland, but achieved some gains last year as the great increase in nut production encouraged its prey....

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Remember November? it was HOT

Coral reefs such as these spectacles in Grand Cayman seem to be severely affected by warming temperatures. Even the deep ocean is now being affected and acidification also increases the...

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COP19 descends to walk-outs

All of the countries currently planning more pollution have to be made aware that they know exactly what they are doing. Blaming the past is never going to work. We...

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The players on the Warsaw pitch

Briksdalsbreen glacier in Jostedalsbreen National Park, Norway, was once much greater in extent. It does fight against global warming when it enlarges after large snow falls, but with some European...

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Floods connected with Arctic ice loss!

The island of Disko in Baffin Bay, west of Greenland sees much more clear water in the summer now than in the days of Eric the Red. Perhaps skating tours...

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Sceptic tanks, of the non-thinking variety

99% of scientific observers is quite a big majority, BBC, for you to ignore, in this climate debate; Polar bear image; Credit: © Shutterstock It's not just in the US...

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IPCC: A final breakthrough?

Sitaantaagu or the Mendenhall Glacier, within the Alaskan Juneau ice field was studed by John Muir, but he never saw the new Mendenhall lake and even this erratic boulder looks...

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Sea change for shore habitats

This view from Maupiti in the Society Islands (French Polynesia) gives a fantastic panorama of the reef and higher ground vegetation that will survive sea-level rise. Many endangered plants, though,...

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