Exploring NASA’s new Eyes on Earth App
The Eyes on Earth application from NASA, Vital Signs, look at events in real time and history.
Deforestation and Cigarettes Tobacco
Smoking products destroy forests worldwide.
Rapid sea-ice loss may increase Arctic land warming by 3.5 times – affecting permafrost GalleryRapid sea-ice loss may increase Arctic land warming by 3.5 times – affecting permafrost
Arctic, Climate Change, Cryosphere, Environment, Geosphere, Impacts, Methane (CH4), Permafrost, Russia, Science, Soils, World News
Rapid sea-ice loss may increase Arctic land warming by 3.5 times – affecting permafrost
First identified in 2014, mysterious "sinkholes" or openings in the Siberian Arctic could represent a significant new permafrost feedback - or not. Key arctic experts weigh in.
Don’t visit Antarctica!
Tourism in Antarctica is ruining the environment. So don't go there. Just go to Alaska. Who even knows the difference?
United States: Record Flames and Record Floods July 2014
Record breaking flash floods in North Carolina, pounding hail in Nevada, record wildfires in central Washington, and severe weather across the Nation.
On Mass Extinction, Sea Level Rise and Amplification
Peter Ward discovered that the near-total devastation at the end of the Permian was caused by rising levels of carbon dioxide leading to climate change.
The devastating drought in California before and after images taken from Space
The year 2013 was the driest calendar year in 119 years of records, and 2014 has not brought much relief.
The ClimateState Week in Review, #29 (July 14-20, 2014)
All the ClimateState coverage from week #29, 2014 on one page. Never miss out on global warming news again.
Greenland ice sheet collapse, 400,000 years ago
The Marine Isotope Stage 11, more than 400,000 years ago, created nearly complete deglaciation of southern Greenland, contributed 4-6 meters to global sea level rise at the time.