global warming
They're cute, cuddly, and can remind us that there's still some semblance of innocence left in the world, but baby seals are facing a new challenge that has nothing to do with clubbing that could adversely affect future seal populations.
What if I was to tell you that there's a time bomb somewhere in the world that could cause up to $60 trillion in worldwide damages - that's just about the size of the entire 2012 world economy. In other words, there's a huge problem that hasn't been acknowledged.
If you think the last decade was either too hot or too cold, turns out you're right. A new U.N. report carried out by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on the global climate from 2001 to 2010 states that more temperature records were broken in the last decade than any other time in recorded history.
If current climate change trends continue, Southern California could be seeing significantly less snowfall by the end of the century, a new UCLA study asserts. If left unchecked, Los Angeles-area mountains will be receiving 30 to 40 percent less snow by midcentury, and up to two-thirds less snow by 2100 than in the years leading up to 2000.
Analysts are reporting that the policy conversation surrounding climate change is slowly shifting from how we can lower our CO2 emissions, to how we can adapt to the changing weather patterns.
Antarctic ice shelves are diminishing from the bottom up due to warm ocean water, and not from huge chunks breaking off into the ocean, says a new University of California Irvine (UCI) study.
Some of our world's most traveled waterways are also some of the deadliest, racking up a number of shipwrecks that will only increase as climate change causes weather to take a turn for the worse, a new study says.
British Antarctica Survey scientists have stripped away Antarctica's icy gown, revealing the mysterious frost-filled frontier naked for the first time. The new geographical map, dubbed Bedmap2, sheds new light on a continent rarely visited even today, and provides environmental engineers with a roadmap of the Antarctic ice sheet.
Rising carbon dioxide levels have not only resulted in rising global temperatures, but it seems they have also been adding a splash of green to our planet's arid regions.
According to recent measurements from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) observatory in Mauna Lao, Hawaii, carbon dioxide emissions have finally passed the dreaded threshold that everyone's been warning about. For the first time in recorded human history, levels of carbon dioxide surpassed 400 parts per million (ppm); a phenomenon that has not graced this planet for millions of years.
In a new study, researchers have discovered that rising temperatures throughout the North Hemisphere may result in a significant loss of snow cover, and in turn endanger many of the species that rely on it to survive through the winter.
A new study shows that the Arctic Ocean has become more acidic as Industry has risen.
As the theory of global warming continues to incite intense debate between clean energy activists and vanguards entrenched industries, a group of scientists have embarked on a study to set the facts straight. Using a recreation of weather patterns "for seven continental-scale regions during the past one to two millennia," the team discovered a thread of long-term cooling, which illustrated "generally cold conditions" from AD 1580 to 1880.
Rising sea levels are expected to begin affecting many coastal cities in the decades to come, and researchers have been scrambling for a way to curb the process. An encouraging new study now states that curbing four key pollutants can effectively slow the rate of sea level rising by 25 to 50 percent.
Nearly 50 years after he started his career with NASA in the field of planetary and climate research, one of NASA's greatest and brightest decided it was time to step away in order to take up the fight against global warming.
