Tag Archives: climate change

Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the largest such reef on Earth, is in serious danger of becoming a dead zone in the next decade.

NASA's launch of their 'Glory' climate change observation satellite went badly, sending the satellite (and $420M) down in flames.

Many advocates for the theory of man-made global warming point to the receding glaciers of Mount Kilimanjaro as clear evidence, but now research claims that it's actually deforestation that is leading to the loss of the mountain's icecap.

Professors speaking at the American Association for the Advancement of Science warned against the effects that climate change could have on the world's food supplies.

Researchers with NASA's Icebridge campaign are completing their fourth tour of flights over the polar regions to image ice sheets and glaciers in Antarctica and Greenland. The places they measure and scan are crucial to our understanding of global climate�and forbiddingly hostile as well.

Narwhals don't go to graduate school, and they're not much use as grant-writers. But they're able to do a few things oceanographers find challenging�such as dive to depths of nearly six thousand feet beneath the ice of Baffin Bay in winter. So scientists have enlisted them in gathering climate-change data in the Greenland Current.