News Archive
Study: Contribution of Antarctica to past and future sea-level rise (2016)
A study published in March 2016, suggests that large parts of East Antarctica’s ice sheet can collapse, can do so under Pliocene conditions. […]
Waking the Giant: Climate Force and Geological Hazards
Small changes in the Earth's crust can potentially trigger large hazards such as earthquakes and volcanoes.
Climate Documentary: The Cross of the Moment
The Cross of the Moment attempts to connect the dots between Fermi’s Paradox, climate change, capitalism, and collapse. […]
Jim Hansen: Hell Will Break Loose – Ice Melt, Sea Level Rise and Superstorms
The threat of irreparable harm caused by ice melt and rising sea levels. NASA's OMG operation aims to assess these dangers.
Cleaner Air, The Ocean, and Global Warming
Reductions in sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions in recent years, for cleaner air, mainly in South East Asia due to a severe manufacturing sector slowdown and pollution policy changes (1,2) may attribute to current warming, since the phenomena called global dimming is involved. London 1952 The first policies to address air pollution in the 20th century, originated after UK's Great Smog of 1952, which led to UK's Clean Air Act in 1956. The aim was to shift homes' sources of heat [...]
NASA: 2016 Arctic Sea Ice Minimum Ties Second Lowest on Record
The 2016 Arctic sea ice minimum extent is effectively tied with 2007 for the second lowest yearly minimum in the satellite record.
Sting’s climate and environment message from 1989
Down to Earth is a 1989 short film features the musician Sting, performing a monologue, a compilation of predictions made then.
Incredible footage of the strongest 2016 Typhoon Meranti
Taiwan, China Brace for Cat 5 Meranti; TS Ian Churns Through Open Atlantic The Japan Meteorological Agency analyzed Meranti’s central pressure at 890 millibars. This puts Meranti in the elite pantheon of the deepest tropical cyclones ever recorded anywhere on Earth. Meranti will likely make landfall on the China coast. Meranti is a very large and extremely powerful typhoon. Its highest 1-minute sustained winds were 185 mph on Tuesday morning, according to the JWTC. This puts Meranti ahead of Cyclone [...]