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Instead of global warming, some experts are now warning that the world may soon plunge into the next Ice Age. They predict most of Scotland, Northern Ireland and England to be covered in ice 3,000 feet thick. These same experts blame global warming on falling greenhouse gas levels. Read more…
According to research released today, we haven’t done enough to reduce our carbon emissions. In fact, not only have we not done enough, but greenhouse gas emissions have actually surpassed scientists’ worst-case-scenarios, despite the measures put in place by policymakers worldwide. Read more…
This summer saw the second-lowest sea ice levels in the Arctic in the fifty years since they started tracking it. This ice serves the greater global purpose of moderating weather and temperatures throughout the world. Less ice equals a bigger environmental impact. Yeah, so? That’s global warming/climate change: nothing new.
Here’s what’s new: This lack of […]
A lake that was once dammed up from ice sheets from the last Ice Age has been found by geologists in Russia.
Last year, geologists found the remnants of a lake near a Russian village called UsNem. Recently, they have discovered that the lake actually ectends 435 to 497 miles to the weast, near another village […]
Greenland, the world’s largest island, holds enough ice to raise global sea levels by 23 feet. Add the ice sheets of Antarctica and the oceans would deepen more than 200 feet!
Satellite measurements from space confirm that global warming is making an impact and turning ice into water. As glaciers begin to melt, the question everyone […]
People better be prepared to dress warmly this winter because Farmers’ Almanac predicts below-average temperatures for most of the U.S.
“Numb’s the word,” says the 192-year-old publication, which claims an accuracy rate of 80 to 85 percent for its forecasts that are prepared two years in advance.
The almanac’s 2009 edition, which goes on sale Tuesday, says […]
According to the Globe and Mail:
A four-square-kilometre chunk has broken off Ward Hunt Ice Shelf - the largest remaining ice shelf in the Arctic - threatening the future of the giant frozen mass that northern explorers have used for years as the starting point for their treks.
Scientists say the break, the largest on record since […]
The cyclone that lashed southern Myanmar (Burma) on May 2 and 3 left massive floodwaters that devastated the region, as seen in a May 5, 2008, image (bottom) by NASA’s Terra satellite.On April 15, 2008 (top photo), the same region was photographed with rivers and streams against a backdrop of green vegetation and tan agricultural […]
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Posted By: ashley | May 12th
TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwire - April 11, 2008) - Thousands of Canadians will put their fitness to the test next week as they climb the 1,776 stairs of Canada’s national tower in the Canada Life CN Tower Climb for WWF-Canada on April 17 and 19. This year, money raised will help fight climate change - the biggest […]
The Ice is melting, the ice is melting!
Some 220 square miles of ice has collapsed in Antarctica and an ice shelf about seven times the size of Manhattan is “hanging by a thread,” the British Antarctic Survey said Tuesday, blaming global warming.
“We are in for a lot more events like this,” said professor Ted Scambos, […]