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The rate at which glaciers are melting all over the world has more than doubled, and some of the biggest melts are occurring in mountain ranges in Europe, not in the Arctic or Antarctica, where you would expect most of it to be happening.

BBC News quotes UN Under Secretary Achim Steiner as saying, “There are many canaries emerging in the climate change coal mine. The glaciers are perhaps among those making the most noise and it is absolutely essential that everyone sits up and takes notice.”

BBC quotes Ian Willis, of the Scott Polar Research Institute, as saying, “It is not too late to stop the shrinkage of these ice sheets but we need to take action immediately.”
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Satellite data reveal that the Arctic is losing its old, thick ice faster than ever before?in modern times, anyway. This has continued even though the summer is over. Older ice floes are thicker and contain less salt, so they usually survive the summer better than the more newly-formed ice. The shrinking of Arctic ice has global implications, since ice reflects heat back into the atmosphere, helping to keep global warming at bay.
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Researchers aren’t sure how migrating birds choose where to go to lay eggs and raise their young. However, they think that the environmental conditions birds face in their first year may help determine where they breed for the rest of their lives. But since global warming is CHANGING these conditions, birds may begin to migrate to different areas. And researchers have not only discovered WHY birds like to sing at dawn, but have learned that pollution actually makes them sing better.
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There have been numerous scientific attempts to date the Shroud of Turin, one of which in 1989 controversially used carbon dating techniques that may have been flawed to date it to the fourteenth century. The Catholic Church had the shroud ‘restored’ in 2002 in such a way that much scientific study is now impossible, but Dr. John Jackson, who conducted the original studies on the Shroud, is doing tests that are designed to evaluate whether or not the original carbon dating was flawed. A BBC documentary aired on March 22 says that the past studies were seriously flawed, and that the Shroud remains a true enigma. Despite many attempts to replicate the image, none have done more than create a vague shadow on similar cloth.read more