A study of 120 ice sheet collapses shows that 68% went from initial change to maximum retreat within 400 years - and that once triggered, the process and the associated sea level rise kept accelerating for hundreds of years. We may face a 1m sea level rise by 2100, writes Eelco Rohling - and much more in centuries to come.
… Ice sheets will be melting, and raising seas, … September 2014 News Oceans Climate Change Ice riiser-larsen_ice_shelf_antarctica-cut.jpg … throughout history - it's why we've had iceages and warm periods. But until now we …
The expected melting of sea ice in Canada's Arctic Archipelago will progressively render huge areas unable to support viable polar bears populations, writes Tim Radford. By 2100 the polar bears could be pushed out altogether.
… With melting Arctic ice, Canada's polar bears face wipe-out by … The expected melting of sea ice in Canada's Arctic Archipelago will … cycle. Hamilton and colleagues put their message bleakly: "Under business-as-usual climate …
Log books from British whaling ships more than 200 years ago have given new insights into the history of the Arctic sea ice, reports Tim Radford. A new study reveals that the scale of ice melt in the Arctic over the last few decades is new and unprecedented.
… Whalers' log books confirm - Arctic sea ice is retreating Tim Radford | 9th July 2014 … insights into the history of the Arctic sea ice, reports Tim Radford. A new study reveals … in 1845 to navigate the icy North-West Passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific - …
We are most certainly witnessing the onset of a rapid pulse of sea level rise, writes Harold R Wanless. And low lying areas - like southeast Florida - will be the first to know about it. So how come they're building there like there's no tomorrow?
… collapse will set in within a 30-year mortgage cycle Harold R. Wanless | 3rd June 2014 … maximum melt of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, it anticipated a raise of 4.1 to … difficult to maintain infrastructure services for and increasingly vulnerable to …
The ancestors of America's Indians lived in Beringia - the land exposed during the last ice age that is now the Bering Strait - for millennia, genetic studies have determined. Scott Armstrong Elias reports.
… Beringia - the land exposed during the last iceage that is now the Bering Strait - for … around 25,000 years ago, just as the last iceage was reaching its peak. Based on …
A string of events earlier this year provided a sobering snapshot of a global climate system out of whack, writes Peter Fisher. Could it represent the end of a rare 10,000 year island of stability in global climate? If so, we had better get used to it. The Earth may never be so comfortable again ...
… bears' hibernation ; while Australia was ravaged by fires and record-breaking heat . These … Steven Mithen wrote in his book After the Ice : "People were thin on the ground and … with a deteriorating climate ... massive ice sheets had expanded across much of North …
Our emissions of greenhouse gases may end up recreating the conditions of the Pliocene era of 2.6 to 5.3 million years ago. Warm and wet, life could still thrive, writes Richard Pancost. As for a 40 metre rise in sea level ...
… sea level ... How can air bubbles trapped in ice for millions of years, or fossilised fern … from bubbles of gas trapped in ancient ice cores. During that time, across several iceages, the planet's climate sensitivity showed …
The North Sea's 'Dogger Bank' was once dry land, inhabited by people and herds of Pleistocene megafauna, writes Vince Gaffney. The long-lost world of Doggerland shows how melting glaciers drowned land at the end of the last ice age. And surely not for the last time ...
… glaciers drowned land at the end of the last iceage. And surely not for the last time ... When … Sea, known as Doggerland. However, melting ice at the end of the last iceage around …
With Australia's still trying to 'de-list' 74,000 hectares of forest from the Tasmania Wilderness World Heritage Area, Kevin Kierman reminds us that it's not just about the trees. No less important are the area's unique geology, and ancient Aboriginal cultural sites.
… Tasmania's World Heritage debate must look beyond the trees Kevin … Area is nominated under criterion viii as an 'iceage' area, it should include snow fields, … us a unique perspective on the most recent iceages. Much of our knowledge of the Earth's …
A new book on climate change brings a refreshing, visual, gag-filled view of a complex topic, writes Edgar Vaid - while including some surprisingly advanced science. The relentless jokiness may be a bit much for adult readers, but will be a hit with the young ones. And that is, after all, what it's all about.
… than the book's appeal to the widest possible age group. Indeed, the concept could prove of … on the animal kingdom of melting Arctic ice, we have a rather lugubrious polar bear confined to a berg the size of a large ice-cube, and gesturing accusingly towards its …
Biological systems offer design strategies for successfully adapting to an age of climate change and resource depletion. Insights from nature will be essential in creating a green and sustainable future for humankind.
… strategies for successfully adapting to an age of climate change and resource depletion. … Mark A. Wilson/Wikimedia. Aside from a nice idea, what is resilience really, … contribute to resilient cities in practice, in an age of resource depletion and …
It's billed as 'the biggest story of our time', writes Kieran Cooke. This weekend viewers of Showtime, the US cable channel, will be watching the first of an 8-part documentary series on climate change: some of the biggest names in Hollywood are involved.
… Truth , a film starring former US vice-president Al Gore, is perhaps the most famous while the low budget The Age of Stupid , is among the most acclaimed. Thin Ice and Chasing Ice are other documentaries …
Brazil's Ilha de Queimada Grande is the only home of one of the world's deadliest, and most endangered, snakes, writes Natasha Geiling. Just the place for Brazil's disgraced football team to escape the wrath of furious fans, if they can only get a permit ...
… Cut off by rising seas at the end of the last iceage Around 11,000 years ago , sea levels rose … in pharmaceuticals. In an interview with Vice , Marcelo Duarte, a scientist with the …
Water is to the 21st century what oil was to the 20th ... the commodity that determines the wealth and stability of nations, writes Garikai Chengdu. Welcome to a new age of hydro-imperialism that is upon us right now in Syria, Israel, Iraq, Libya ...
… writes Garikai Chengdu. Welcome to a new age of hydro-imperialism that is upon us right … with the remaining 2% trapped in glaciers and ice. Put differently: if all the water on … is one of privatizing water by inflating prices by 35%. The inflation caused public …
As ice and snow melt away in sweltering Sochi, US Ski Team member Andrew Newell and another 104 Olympians call for action on climate change - and a commitment to a global agreement before the Paris climate talks in 2015.
… Comment Climate Change sochi-opening.png As ice and snow melt away in sweltering Sochi, US … gliding on snow is my life. From a very early age, the feeling of weightlessness and sliding … the next two weeks. With a rise in the average global temperature of more than 7 degrees …
Forest fires are invariably portrayed as fiercely destructive environmental calamities. But for the native forests of the American West, large fires are essential to ecological renewal. Contrary to the mantras of logging companies and forest service officials, we suppress them at our peril.
… mantras of logging companies and forest service officials, we suppress them at our peril. … in decades, with record-low rainfall and meager mountain snowpack. Drought, high summer … the timber industry, and the US Forest Service that large fires are widespread and …
A spellbinding solo performance by veteran climate scientist Chris Rapley at London's Royal Court puts the climate debate centre stage, writes Tim Radford - and earns the admiration of hard-to-please theatre critics.
… Royal Court puts the climate debate centre stage, writes Tim Radford - and earns the … to popular language: the diction and choice of terminology is of the kind you tend to … lithosphere are identified as the worlds of ice and rock within a second of utterance. The …
The way to a sustainable, people-centred agriculture lies in agroecology - farming based on ecological principles, taking account of the interdependence of all living things.
… it too belongs to an earlier conceptual age - a time when scientists assumed that each … pursues these same principles. In practice, if we are to feed everyone well for all … and the climate has veered from pole-to-pole ice to pole-to-pole tropics and back again. …
An invisible cloud of man-made chemical toxins is sweeping the globe, writes Tony McMichael - disrupting ecosystems, damaging human health and shortening our lives. Our response so far has been utterly inadequate, as Julian Cribb reveals in his new book. But there are solutions - and it's up to us to get them implemented.
… though they are now also implicated in old-age mental decline Invisible but deadly Yet … contaminants have spread globally into polar ice, mountain glaciers, seals and whales. … loss of imperial authority, who would have noticed the link, or foreseen the future …
Next week the indigenous peoples of the Yukon challenge their Government in the Territory's Supreme Court, writes Jill Pangman. At issue, its plans to open the Peel watershed, a vast unspoilt ecosystem rich in wildlife and cultural meaning, for industrial development.
… and mountains since long before the last iceage. It's also rich in oil and gas, coal, … Nations. CPAWS and YCS were left with no choice but to go to court. "This is a lawsuit …
Matt Mellen joined a growing number of Westerners seeking therapy with Ayahuasca, the Amazonian 'miracle medicine' for mind, body and soul. He emerged transformed, a happier version of ... himself.
… endometriosis, migraines and even early stage cancer. These types of issue can arise … introduction to what was to follow and as an ice-breaker - you get to know someone pretty … a token gesture to add local flavor. My prejudices were dramatically blown away as I sat up …
For just 8% of the fish landed, extraordinary, beautiful, ancient, diverse deep sea habitats are routinely destroyed by fishing gear. And as J. Murray Roberts writes, it's all for a one-off hit as the fish are so slow to grow and reproduce. If the same damage happened on land, there would be uproar.
… so slow to grow and reproduce. If the same damage happened on land, there would be uproar. … shelf is strewn with rocks dropped from icebergs at the end of the last glaciation. … habitats that have developed since the last iceage 10,000 years ago. But if the fish …
Singer-songwriter Kristin Hoffmann reflects on the natural and divine inspiration that underlies her music, and urges us to both listen and play to rediscover the inner harmonies that are so easily obliterated by the brute cacophony of industrialism.
… stands out as a soloist, with the guiding voice and tone of self awareness and creative … so consumed and entranced by our own egoic voices, that we have become deaf to the music … rhythms and players who have not practiced in ages. How can we retune ourselves and restore …
In principle ancient woodland enjoys strong protection, but that's not how it works out on the ground, reports Sian Atkinson. HS2 alone threatens 82 ancient woods, and 440 are at risk nationwide. Hence the Woodland Trust's 'Enough is Enough' campaign ...
… Forests UK Natural World Transport hermitage-quarry-oaken-wood-kent-2.png In principle … the first woodland established after the last IceAge. For convenience, the threshold date … the loss" . Natural England's Standing Advice to local authorities on ancient woodland …