Large amounts of methane have been observed escaping from the seabed off of the northeastern coast of Siberia, emanating from previously-frozen pockets of the powerful greenhouse gas, a “sleeping giant” that threatens to trigger a global warming feedback loop that exacerbates the climate-warming effects of human-produced carbon dioxide emissions. Thisread more
A new detailed map of the Earth’s climate over the past 66 million years has been constructed, and it predicts that the planet is headed toward a hothouse state not seen since the extinction of the dinosaurs. This new climatological map covers the entirety of the Cenozoic era, the periodread more
The annual rate of ice melt in Greenland is now nearly eight times faster than it was in the early 1990s, according to a large-scale 6-year study that involved 89 scientists employing that data from 26 separate satellite analyses, coming to the conclusion that Greenland’s glaciers are (once again) meltingread more
Western Europe is in the middle of a record-breaking heat wave, with countries such as France, Germany, Poland, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Spain, and Switzerland suffering through sweltering heat, brought on by an abnormal high-pressure system that has parked itself over the region. Soaring temperatures have prompted heat alerts fromread more