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16/5/2013
The Arctic Council added China and five other countries as official observers yesterday, expanding the focus of the organization and underscoring the complicated politics created by newly open waters in the north because of climate ...
11/5/2013
The icy Arctic is emerging as a global economic hot spot -- and one that is becoming a security concern for the U.S. as world powers jockey to tap its vast energy resources and stake out unclaimed territories.
Diplomats from eight Arctic ...
16/4/2013
It was once protected by ice. Now regulation will have to do the work.The governments of the five countries with coastline on the Arctic have concluded that enough of the polar ice cap now melts regularly in the summertime that an ...
6/4/2013
Our planet is already showing the stress of radical climate change, affecting the Earth right before our eyes. The climate is different than when we were kids, and it is changing more rapidly than ever before. Accordingly, the underlying thesis ...
11/3/2013
A melt of Greenland's ice is washing large amounts of the nutrient iron into the Atlantic
Ocean where it might aid marine life in a rare positive side-effect of climate change, a study showed on Sunday.
Greenland's thaw, which is raising ...
10/3/2013
Humans are dumping so much carbon dioxide into the
oceans so fast that seawater -- even in the Gulf of Maine -- is getting warmer and more acidic, according to marine and climate researchers.
Scientists aren't sure yet how the trend, ...
28/2/2013
Despite massive growth of the offshore wind industry in Europe, a blossoming array of land-based wind turbines stateside, and plenty of wind to spare, the US has yet to sink even one turbine in the
ocean. Not exactly the kind of leadership on ...
24/2/2013
From March 1, 2007, to that same date the following year, nations from around the world and particularly the North came together for what was the third International Polar Year (IPY). As with the case in the two previous IPYs (the first in the ...
9/2/2013
The
oceans are changing faster today and in more ways than at any time in human history. We are the cause. Which is why I welcome the launch of the Global
Ocean Commission, dedicated to ending the neglect, in international affairs, of the high ...
10/1/2013
Whale lovers around the world held their breath as a family of orcas, trapped in the ice of Canada's frozen Hudson Bay, were left with an ever-shrinking opening in the icy surface as their only breathing hole. The two adult killer
whales ...
16/11/2012
Scientists predict global
warming will affect certain areas more dramatically than others. The Arctic is one of these climate-change hotspots.
Significant changes are happening sooner and more intensely in the cold northern cap over the ...
7/11/2012
As fall sets in here in the northern hemisphere, our changing global climate is lining up to render yet another unprecedented summer along the Antarctic Peninsula. Arguably the most rapidly rising temperatures anywhere on earth, mid-winter ...
5/11/2012
By a remote fjord where icebergs float in silence and hunters stalk reindeer, plans are being drawn up for a huge iron ore mine that would lift Greenland's population by four percent at a stroke - by hiring Chinese workers.
The ...
28/10/2012
FOR almost 20 years, I’ve been spending time on a craggy stretch of British Columbia’s shoreline called the Sunshine Coast. This summer, I had an experience that reminded me why I love this place, and why I chose to have a child in this sparsely ...
19/10/2012
People are accustomed to equalize terms of “global
warming” and “climate change,” but in fact they are pretty much distinctive. Global
warming is one of the reflections of climate change, which might be compared to glaciers’ meltdown, natural ...
19/10/2012
Predators of the North Pacific
Ocean - among them many sharks,
whales, seals and sea turtles - will be forced to swim farther from their food supplies or go hungry as the world's
warming climate shifts their normal habitats, a marine scientist ...
11/10/2012
Scientists have produced the first three dimensional map of the surface beneath Antarctic sea ice, helping them better understand the impact of climate change on Antarctica.
The team of scientists from eight countries have used a robot ...
24/9/2012
Sharks, blue
whales and loggerhead turtles look like losers due to climate change coming to the Pacific
Ocean in this century, scientists report.
Sea birds, tuna and leatherback turtles, on the other hand, look more likely to prosper as ...
16/9/2012
The man at the centre of Shell's controversial drilling programme in the Arctic has said he is aware of the responsibility on his head but is convinced the Anglo-Dutch oil group is acting in a fully responsible and accountable ...
24/7/2012
The federal government is poised to auction to wind farm developers 2,434 square miles of the continental shelf in the Atlantic
Ocean, which would allow wind farms to sprout 10 miles off the shores of six states, from Massachusetts to ...
21/7/2012
Seven years and $4.5 billion after it bought leases to explore for oil off Alaska’s Arctic coast, Royal Dutch Shell is finally close to drilling a well in the pristine Chukchi Sea, confident that it will discover a vast oil reservoir buried ...
18/7/2012
Some hope fertilizing tiny, floating plants in the
ocean, prompting them to suck carbon dioxide out of the air, could help solve global
warming.
A new experiment confirms this controversial idea has some merit, although important ...
15/6/2012
On most days, Bill Dewey can be found wearing waist-high waders and inspecting Manila clams -- the West Coast version of the littleneck -- at his Washington clam farm, Chuckanut Shellfish. Under an arrangement that's unique to the state, Dewey ...
20/5/2012
In recent years, carbon dioxide gas has received a lot of attention.
The biggest source of CO2 comes from fossil fuel combustion, which contributes more than 13 trillion pounds to the atmosphere annually. CO2 traps heat, and so this ...
17/5/2012
With melting sea ice opening up previously inaccessible parts of the Arctic
Ocean, the fishing industry sees a potential bonanza. But some scientists and government officials have begun calling for a moratorium on fishing in the region until the ...