global warming
It's a well-known fact that carbon dioxide is one of the main culprits behind our planet's rising temperatures, but scientists from the University of Georgia have now created a microorganism that can make something useful out of the harmful gas in hopes of alleviating our carbon footprint.
Recent storms such as Sandy and Nemo have even global warming doubtfuls second-guessing the current state of our climate. For years, scientists have warned that climate change patterns would lead to an increase in weather severity, but most people have brushed it off with a 'we'll deal with it when it happens' attitude. Well, it is happening, and a recent study supports it.
As the Earth experiences rising temperatures, a new NASA study utilizing NASA's twin Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites found that the Middle East has lost the water equivalent of the Dead Sea over just seven years. NASA hopes that the study will prompt people to recognize the harmful effects of quickly depleting groundwater.
Every spring, water from massive amounts of melting snow floods the arctic plains. The water carries with it soil containing high amounts of carbon, which later on is oxidized by bacteria into carbon dioxide, says environmental scientist Rose Cory. This carbon from melting permafrost accounts to nearly 40 percent of all carbon released into the atmosphere from the Arctic.
It's not easy for wolverines at the moment. Despite their reputation as being one of the fiercest creatures alive, wolverines are experiencing a steady population decline. It's gotten so bad that Federal Wildlife officials are proposing that the wolverine be made an endangered species.
Elizabeth R. Ellwood from Boston University and her fellow authors tapped into research from the notebooks of Henry David Thoreau and Aldo Leopold to determine that many species of flowers in the United States are blooming earlier due to rising temperatures.
While climate change is more commonly associated with carbon dioxide, a new study indicates that black carbon is more potent than previously thought - potent enough to be the second leading cause of global warming.
It looks like the United States is in for a hot future.
The continental United States experienced its hottest year on record in 2012, according to the National Climatic Data Center.
With the climate change debate reaching a crescendo in recent months, researchers have discovered that Western Antarctica is warming rapidly
Those who doubt the existence of global warming will now have to contend with research from the UN.
A climate-skeptic blogger has leaked an initial draft of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) next Assessment Report,
The Doha climate talks in Qatar have hit several substantial roadblocks, as poor and developing countries clash with flourishing states in a scramble for disaster relief funds and strict carbon emissions regulations.
A new study revealed that polar ice sheets are melting at a three-times faster rate then they were in the 1990s.
Studies on the rate of ice loss have often differed in their results, but now researchers have created a new set of data using multiple methods to give scientists more accurate and easy-to-read information on our planet's global warming.
