Recently. freshwater intake into the Arctic Circle have changed ocean currents, in the following a collection of related science, and what if freshwater currents drive warmer water into the deep ocean and unlock methane hydrates? Mechanism have been identified recently.
Eastern Afghanistan and neighbouring Pakistan have been hit by torrential rain, causing floods which have killed at least 80 people.
Eastern Afghanistan and neighbouring Pakistan have been hit by torrential rain, causing floods which have killed at least 80 people.
Humanity is the major influence on the global climate change observed over the past 50 years.
Deep in the Arctic Circle, in the Messoyakha gas field of western Siberia, lies a mystery. Back in 1970, Russian engineers began pumping natural gas from beneath the permafrost. The field continues to power Norilsk today.
Oblivion, After Earth, Pacific Rim, Man of Steel . . . why are we so obsessed with the apocalypse?
In conditions without oxygen, such as at the bottom of a lake or the sea, decomposition turns organic matter into methane, rather than carbon dioxide.
Extensive dark snow, very large melt lakes
Elevated CO2 leading to Late Triassic extinction, persistent photic zone euxinia, and rising sea levels.
Thomas Painter of NASA JPL speaks at TEDxISU on fascinating new data and perspectives on the causes and impact of Climate Change.
An exhaustive study of a wide range of conflicts over thousands of years has found that rising temperatures are inevitably linked to an increase in violence.
Ice shelves that have lived for more than 10,000 years are disintegrating rapidly -- in 6 weeks or less.