Peter H. Wolf: A global warming primer and plea – Winston-Salem Journal

{{featured_button_text}} Peter H. Wolf Guest columnist Human conflict is history’s most enduring thread. We have conflicts among each other, such as war, genocide, racism, religion, the treatment and education of women, corruption, forms of government and overpopulation. Other conflicts relate…

Ice memory: What ice cores tell us about Earth’s environmental history

Glacial ice records all manner of precious information about the planet’s environmental history, but it is melting fast.

Inside the race to rescue clues to Earth’s past from melting glaciers

Glacial ice records all manner of precious information about the planet’s environmental history, but it is melting fast. The Ice Memory project is scrambling to extract samples for posterity before it’s too late

Rutgers Falsely Claims Sea-Level Rise Is Accelerating On East Coast

A recent Rutgers University press release says the rate of sea-level rise in the 20th century along much of the U.S. Atlantic coast was the fastest in 2,000 years, with southern New Jersey recording the fastest rate of rise. Real-world data…

Rising heat-related deaths linked to global warming – SciDev.Net

[NEW DELHI] An international team of researchers has quantified how heat-related deaths are attributable to global warming, with Latin America and South-East Asia the worst hit. Ana Maria Vicedo-Cabrera, lead author and head of the Climate Change and Health Research…

We have already stepped on the minefield: Scientist on reversing global warming – Down To Earth Magazine

Arctic Sea ice retreated record fast in spring 2020; also, the summer sea ice was only half as large as decades ago Melting sea ice. Photo: Rosendahl via Wikimedia Is global warming still reversible? No, thinks the scientist who led…

We have already stepped on the minefield: Scientist on reversing global warming

Arctic Sea ice retreated record fast in spring 2020; also, the summer sea ice was only half as large as decades ago

5 satellite images show how fast our planet is changing

Here are 5 satellite images that illustrate how fast Earth is changing.

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Could temperatures keep rising?

Orbital changes are responsible for Milankovitch cycles that make Earth move in and out of periods of glaciation, or Ice Ages. Summer insolation on the Northern Hemisphere reached a peak some 10,500 years ago, in line with the Milankovitch cycles, and…

Global Warming: A growing concern to all of us – Rising Kashmir

Global warming will impact life on Earth in many ways, but the extent of the change is largely up to us   DAR ZAHID HUSSAIN Global warming is the unusually rapid increase in Earth’s average surface temperature over the past…