Polar bears and narwhals in the Arctic are at risk of death due to loss of sea ice, US scientists warn. Unprecedented global warming is causing catastrophic sea ice loss, driving polar bears onto land and depriving them of their preferred food – blubber-rich seal. Polar bears are being forced to migrate to nearby solid … Read more
Polar bears and and narwhals in the Arctic are at risk of death due to loss of sea ice, US scientists warn. Unprecedented global warming is causing catastrophic sea ice loss, driving polar bears onto land and depriving them of their preferred food – blubber-rich seal. Polar bears are being forced to migrate to nearby … Read more
Climate change has made its way into Alaska, causing mudslides, wildfires and record-breaking temperatures – but two new studies have added thunderstorms to the list of effects. The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) warns that if greenhouse emissions are not curbed the number of thunderstorms will triple later this century. The increase of these … Read more
Fish poop, breath and other excretions produce over a billion tons of carbon every year, according to a new study. That’s more than 15 percent of all the carbon in the ocean, the planet’s largest active carbon ‘sink,’ or absorber of carbon dioxide. That makes fish an important component of the carbon cycle, researchers say, … Read more
A reversal of the magnetic poles 42,000 years ago triggered catastrophic climate change and may have wiped out Neanderthals, a new study shows. Aussie researchers have analysed the radiocarbon record from ancient trees in New Zealand that were alive when the magnetic poles flipped. The trees revealed spikes in atmospheric radiocarbon levels, caused by the collapse … Read more
‘Humans waging suicidal war on nature’: UN says our lifestlyes are accelerating the erosion of life on earth Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned of the triple threat from high pollution, climate change and loss of biodiversity Guterres also offered suggestions of ways out of the crisis in the report called Making Peace With Nature by … Read more
A disused railway line above Camden could be set for a radical transformation into a garden walkway in the style of New York’s famous High Line. This latest green project in London‘s eco-drive is hoping to turn three-quarters of a mile of tracks turned into a ‘park in the sky’ that stretches across the trendy … Read more
In anticipation of NASA‘s Perseverance rover landing on Mars Thursday, Swedish activist Greta Thunberg is taking an opportunity to slam space agencies and governments for using billions of dollars to visit other planets when our own’s suffering. Thunberg, 18, released a satirical tourism ad for the Red Planet that is aimed at the ‘one percent,’ … Read more
All across the northern hemisphere from Athens, Greece, to Athens, Texas, snowfalls have blanketed streets and temperatures have plunged to freezing in places where winter usually requires no more than a jacket. Snow has covered nearly three quarters of the United States, to an average depth of six inches, compared to 35.5 per cent last year … Read more
All across the northern hemisphere from Athens, Greece, to Athens, Texas, snowfalls have blanketed streets and temperatures have plunged to freezing in places where winter usually requires no more than a jacket. Around the North Pole, winter’s ultra-cold air is usually kept bottled up 15 to 30 miles high. That’s the polar vortex, which spins … Read more