Methane Seeps Into the UN
Pure methane gas is now bubbling up from underwater vents across our polar regions and escaping into the atmosphere where it adds to global-warming.
Pure methane gas is now bubbling up from underwater vents across our polar regions and escaping into the atmosphere where it adds to global-warming.
Frances Beinecke | Posted 09.12.2009 | Green
The long-term vitality of many important industries rests entirely on the vitality of the oceans, and right now, they are threatened by something called ocean acidification.
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 09.11.2009 | Green
Is climate change a threat to national security?
Michael Winship | Posted 09.06.2009 | Green
One of the most valuable contributions of our exploration of the skies has been the knowledge gained from being able to examine our own earthly neighborhood from the distance of space.
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 08.28.2009 | Green
U.S.-China summit begins today in D.C.; Arctic ice photos finally declassified... PLUS: Chicken feathers! For both biodiesel and Republican Senators..
Kevin Grandia | Posted 08.28.2009 | Green
While most people don't need any more proof that the Arctic is melting, new spy satellite photos released by the U.S. Military today put the nail in the climate change coffin.
Frances Beinecke | Posted 06.12.2009 | Green
A monumental and potentially catastrophic change is happening in the North, and yet most of us have no idea what it looks like or what it means for our lives down here.
AP | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | Posted 05.03.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON — Arctic sea ice is melting so fast most of it could be gone in 30 years. A new analysis of changing conditions in the region, using ...
Frances Beinecke | Posted 04.27.2009 | Green
It's been a hard week for polar bears. Last Wednesday, the New York Times reported that scientists and officials from the five Arctic nations conclude...
The Independent | Peter Popham | Posted 04.24.2009 | World
Global warming is dissolving the Alpine glaciers so rapidly that Italy and Switzerland have decided they must re-draw their national border to take ac...
Los Angeles Times | Juliet Eilperin | Posted 01.26.2009 | Green
Reporting from Washington -- The United States faces the possibility of much more rapid climate change by the end of the century than previous studies...
The Independent | Steve Connor | Posted 01.16.2009 | Green
Scientists have found the first unequivocal evidence that the Arctic region is warming at a faster rate than the rest of the world at least a decade b...
AP | Posted 01.16.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON — More than 2 trillion tons of land ice in Greenland, Antarctica and Alaska have melted since 2003, according to new NASA satellite d...
AP | SETH BORENSTEIN and DAN JOLING | Posted 09.27.2008 | Green
WASHINGTON — More ominous signs Wednesday have scientists saying that a global warming "tipping point" in the Arctic seems to be happening befor...
Giles Slade | Posted 11.18.2009 | Green