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Emissions from Melting Permafrost Could Cost Trillions
2015-09-30 17:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: While rain forests have long scored attention for their role in trapping carbon, discussions concerning the Arctic have centered on whether or not, or how much, we are going to allow companies to drill for oil far up north. Now, scientists are suggesting the Arctic should have renewed focus for another reason: Climate change, accelerated by the melting of permafrost and resulting greenhouse gas emissions, could cost the global economy, in the long run, as much as $43 trillion. This analysis...
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Watch NASA Explain Why We Should All Be Worried About Greenlands Melting Ice Sheet
2015-09-09 16:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: NASA scientists are worried about Greenland. Its ice sheet is three times the size of Texas and a mile deep on average. The only place with more of the worlds ice is Antarctica. But Greenland is warming twice as fast as Antarctica, NASA says. This rapid melting is raising global sea levels at an alarming rateeven faster than expected. Thats why NASA scientists are monitoring Greenlands ice sheet from high up in space to the ocean floor below to provide data for scientists studying the global...
Will the Melting Arctic Really Open the Region to an Oil Bonanza?
2015-09-08 13:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The Kremlin spent billions in the last decade in hopes of turning it into a northern hub of its energy powerhouse, Gazprom. It was once the most ambitious project planned in the Arctic Ocean, but now there is little to show for it aside from a shuttered headquarters and an enormous gravel road carved out of the windblown coastline like a scar. "There are plans," said Viktor A. Turchaninov, the village's mayor, "but the facts - the realities of life - suggest the opposite." The dream of an Arctic...
Its So Hot in LA That Even All-Weather Fields Are Melting
2015-09-02 15:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Extreme heat this summer has led to roads and shoes melting and now "all-weather" fields too. Five high schools with all-weather fields in Los Angeles are being forced to replace their fields because they keep melting. The turf is being replaced because of "defective materials," an LA district official told The Los Angeles Times, but California`s record heat certainly has not helped. Five LAUSD high schools are forced to replace melting all-weather fields http://t.co/YwrTHgP0J2 -- eric sondheimer...
As Ice Age ended, greenhouse gas rise was lead factor in melting of Earth's glaciers
2015-08-21 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] A fresh look at some old rocks has solved a crucial mystery of the last Ice Age, yielding an important new finding that connects to the global retreat of glaciers caused by climate change today, according to a new study by a team of climate scientists. For decades, researchers examining the glacial meltdown that ended 11,000 years ago took into account a number of contributing factors, particularly regional influences such as solar radiation, ice sheets and ocean curre…
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