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Alaska's rivers are turning bright orange and as acidic as vinegar as toxic metal escapes from melting permafrost
2024-05-23 in Live ScienceAlaska's melting permafrost is dumping toxic metals into the state's rivers, turning them bright orange and making the water highly acidic. The contaminated rivers are so vibrant they can be seen from space, and the problem is likely to get much worse in the future.
Tagged under: Oceans
'We were in disbelief': Antarctica is behaving in a way we've never seen before. Can it recover?
2024-04-22 in Live ScienceAntarctic sea ice has been disappearing over the last several summers. Now, climate scientists are wondering whether it will ever come back.
Tagged under: Antarctic
Fracturing Antarctic glacier breaks 80 mph speed record
2024-03-01 in Live ScienceThe Pine Island glacier formed a 6.5-mile-long crack at 80 mph, proving to scientists that some glaciers can shatter like glass.
Tagged under: Antarctic
Giant, synchronized swarms of locusts may become more common with climate change
2024-02-15 in Live ScienceLocust swarms can arise from several locations at once. Research has linked these dramatic events to bouts of heavy rain and wind — and that's not good news under climate change.
Sea of methane sealed beneath Arctic permafrost could trigger climate feedback loop if it escapes
2023-12-20 in Live ScienceA sea of migrating methane discovered below the permafrost in Svalbard may eventually escape its icy prison if the permafrost continues to thaw due to climate change.
Tagged under: Methane | Arctic
Strange methane leak discovered at the deepest point of the Baltic Sea baffling scientists
2023-10-11 in Live ScienceA huge methane leak discovered in the Baltic Sea spans 7.7 square miles, with masses of gas bubbles rising almost all the way to the ocean surface.
Tagged under: Oceans | Methane | Rivers
We could be 16 years into a methane-fueled 'termination' event significant enough to end an ice age
2023-08-16 in Live ScienceMethane emissions from tropical wetlands have been soaring since 2006 and accelerating at the same breakneck speed as when Earth's climate has flipped from a glacial to an interglacial period.
Tagged under: Methane | Wetlands
Siberia's 'gateway to the underworld' megaslump is revealing 650,000 year-old secrets from its permafrost
2023-06-07 in Live ScienceThe permafrost inside the Batagay crater is the second-oldest ever found on Earth and scientists are using it to reconstruct the planet's ancient climate.
Energy of '25 billion atomic bombs' trapped on Earth in just 50 years, all because of global warming
2023-05-05 in Live ScienceA new study has revealed that 380 zettajoules of energy was trapped by global warming between 1971 and 2020.
Greenland's glaciers are melting 100 times faster than estimated
2022-12-19 in Live ScienceScientists are getting a better handle on how fast Greenland's ice is flowing out to sea. Old models that used Antarctica as a baseline were way off the mark.
Tagged under: Antarctic | Ice Melting
New map of methane 'super-emitters' shows some of the largest methane clouds ever seen
2022-10-27 in Live ScienceA NASA instrument designed to study dust has revealed that some of the largest methane clouds ever seen are floating over the US, Iran and elsewhere.
Physicists predict Earth will become a chaotic world, with dire consequences
2022-05-25 in Live ScienceIf the Earth System gets into the region of chaotic behavior, we will lose all hope of somehow fixing the problem.
Tagged under: Predictions
What's the hottest temperature the human body can endure?
2021-07-31 in Live ScienceIt depends on the humidity.
Could we ever pull enough carbon out of the atmosphere to stop climate change?
2020-11-22 in Live SciencePlanting trees helps, but what are other ways?
Tagged under: Climate Change | Trees | Carbon Capture and Storage
Antarctica could melt 'irreversibly' due to climate change, study warns
2020-09-29 in Live ScienceThe change will take thousands of years, but we only have a century to stop it.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Antarctic
Earth barreling toward 'Hothouse' state not seen in 50 million years, epic new climate record shows
2020-09-10 in Live ScienceRecord goes back to the dinosaur extinction.
Tagged under: Extinction
Oceans Turning Acidic Faster than Past 300 Million Years
2012-03-02 in Live ScienceThe ocean has become acidic in the past, but not as rapidly as it is now, according to researchers who examined the geologic record going back 300 million years for evidence of past acidification.
Tagged under: Oceans | Ocean Acidification | Extinction
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