After five years of sitting on the sidelines while national security issues dominated the political arena, 2006 was the year science suddenly mattered again.
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Research Tents on the Petermann Glacier. Image courtesy of NASA. Two of the largest floating glaciers in northern Greenland recently broke away as evidenced by satellite imagery. See this link to the photos. An 11 square mile (1/2 the size…
Headline Earth’s Katie Fehlinger discusses how a shift in the Bering Sea’s system is impacting the fish and the fishing industry up there….
An icebreaker leaves behind a wake of broken sea ice. A 6-year study of Arctic sea ice confirms that there has been a massive shrinking and drastic thinning of the ice. Highly accurate data, which was gathered on board a…
Images courtesy of the University of Bremen, Germany. Arctic sea ice concentration Aug 20th, 2007 Arctic sea ice concentration Aug 19th, 2008, accounting for leap year. (Thanks to Anthony Watts, I would never of thought of the leap year day…
As I noted last week, the National Sea Ice Data Center (NSIDC) has now confirmed that the pace of sea ice loss in the Arctic basin sharply quickened over the last ten days. That latest updated graph below does seem…
A USGS crew evaluating forest thinning one year after a late-season burn. The current policy of wildfire management by supressing small fires is causing less carbon to be stored in trees, according to a new study from the University of…
The Arctic has now reached the peak of the summer melt season and scientists now predict that the 2008 sea ice extent will most likely not break the record low minimum set in 2007, but it will still end up…
Mount Rainier, Washington. A new study from the University of Washington suggests that there is no clear evidence that human-induced global warming has caused a drop in 20th century snow levels and that the volcanic, mountain chain could enjoy a…
The United States and Canada at night. Image courtesy of NASA. Thinking that this would be an excellent conversation starter, I was asked to post a link to the recently released “first draft” of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program’s…
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