SWIPA – A Changing Environment
Snow, Water, Ice, Permafrost in the Arctic (SWIPA) http://amap.no/swipa/
BBC: Russian Permafrost Melt
Russian scientists travel to Siberia to measure output of methane from permafrost lakes.
Climate Refugees of Bangladesh
35:00 min topic = Bamboo & mangrove to mitigate/adapt to climate change in rural Bangladesh. “Climate Refugees Of Bangladesh” is a very simple and little step towards the struggle for grounding the term Climate Refugee into the discourse of Refugee and Migration worldwide. I hope and wish that you will bring your awareness about the impacts…
The Secret of El Dorado (The discovery of Biochar)
In 1542, the Spanish Conquistador, Francisco de Orellana ventured along the Rio Negro, one of the Amazon Basin’s great rivers. Hunting a hidden city of gold, his expedition found a network of farms, villages and even huge walled cities. At least that is what he told an eager audience on his return to Spain. http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2002/eldorado.shtml…
Will climate change cause earthquakes?
Bill McGuire, author of ‘Waking the Giant: How a changing climate triggers earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes‘, discusses the topics raised in his book. Twenty thousand years ago our planet was an icehouse. Temperatures were down six degrees; ice sheets kilometres thick buried much of Europe and North America and sea levels were 130m lower. The…
The permafrost carbon feedback loop
THE world is on the cusp of a “tipping point” into dangerous climate change, according to new data gathered by scientists measuring methane leaking from the Arctic permafrost and a report presented to the United Nations on Tuesday. “The permafrost carbon feedback is irreversible on human time scales,” says the report, Policy Implications of Warming…
Melting permafrost releases greenhouse gases
A UN report has warned that carbon dioxide and methane released from melting permafrost could push the climate past a tipping point and dangerously accelerate global warming. Broadcast: 28/11/2012, Reporter: Tony Jones http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/conten… Thawing permafrost may amplify global warming, U.N. reports http://www.latimes.com/news/science/s… Policy Implications of Warming Permafrost http://www.unep.org/pdf/permafrost.pdf