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Warming Is Shifting Around Earths Clouds
2016-07-12 00:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The warming of the planet over the past few decades has shifted a key band of clouds poleward and increased the heights of clouds tops, exacerbating Earth's rising temperature, a new study released Monday suggests. The reaction of clouds to a warming atmosphere has been one of the major sources of uncertainty in estimating exactly how much the world will heat up from the accumulation of greenhouse gases, as some changes would enhance warming, while others would counteract it. The study, detailed...
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One of earth's most-loved species is at risk from climate change
2016-07-06 20:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Market Watch: Adélie Penguins, the small, flightless birds found along the Antartic coast, are gradually losing their home to climate change, according to a new report. About a third of current Adélie penguin colonies, which is about 20% of their overall population, may be in decline by 2060, according to a study published in Scientific Reports, part of the Nature journal. The direct or indirect effects of this warming are detrimental to Adélie penguin populations and could lead to population declines at...
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Understanding ice loss in Earths coldest regions
2016-07-04 02:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: How do ice sheets melt in places where surface conditions are too cold for melting? Glaciers in the McMurdo Dry Valley rarely are observed to be actively melting, yet runoff from these glaciers feeds streams, lakes, and associated ecosystems in the valleys, which are among the coldest and driest ecosystems on Earth. The processes generating melt under these marginal conditions are not well understood, and traditional melt modeling techniques are inadequate to explain the observed runoff. Using ice...
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Earths poles may once have been far from the ends of the Earth
2016-06-30 15:37:40| Extremetech
An intriguing new theory of Earth's evolution argues that at one point the Earth had many poles, placed far from the "ends" of the planet.
Check out Google Earths amazing new satellite imagery from Landsat 8
2016-06-28 20:57:11| Extremetech
Earlier this week, Google announced that it upgraded the satellite imagery on Google Maps and Google Earth with data collected from Landsat 8. With finer detail, more accurate colors, and a faster rate of capture, these new images from the US government make Google's consumer-facing services better than ever.
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