Arctic warming at twice global rate
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Global warming in the Arctic is happening now, warns the most comprehensive scientific report to date. The reports concludes that the northern ice cap is warming at twice the global rate and that this will lead to serious consequences for the planet.
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Just days after the Nobel prize was awarded for global warming work, an alarming new study finds that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is increasing faster than expected.
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The Arctic, already a dump for Russian nuclear waste from the Cold War, is also rapidly becoming a chemical sump for the globe, the World Wide Fund for Nature said on Thursday.
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â¢ Glaciers in the Antarctic and Greenland are melting much faster than expected, and the world&#39;s fastest-receding glacier, the Grand Pacific in Glacier Bay, Alaska, has doubled its rate.
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Global warming is causing the Arctic ice-cap to melt at such an unprecedented rate that by the summer of 2070 it may have no ice at all, according to the most comprehensive study carried out on global climate change in the region.
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The Arctic Council, an international group of northern nations, says global warming will be both a blessing and a curse. The group&#39;s report, four years in the making and set for a Nov.
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global average projected by UN reports. Siberia and Alaska have already warmed by 2-3 C since the 1950s. outweighed by threats to indigenous peoples and the habitats of animals and plants.
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British scientists find global warming is melting the ice of Antarctica faster than  previously thought.
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The Arctic ice cap is melting faster than scientists had expected and will shrink 40 percent by 2050 in most regions, with grim consequences for polar bears, walruses and other marine animals, according to government researchers.
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Global warming (news - web sites) is melting the Arctic ice faster than expected, and the world&#39;s oceans could rise by about a meter (3 feet
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Global warming is causing much concern in Greenland, but as James Painter discovers, higher temperatures are bringing some benefits to the sub-Arctic south of the island.
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Ice cover in the Arctic Ocean, long held to be an early warning of a changing climate, has shattered the all-time low record this summer, according to scientists from the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder.
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The Arctic is undergoing rapid and possibly irreversible change, according to a new report prepared for the eight nations which rim the region.
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Reports released this week offer evidence of climate change's impact: Plants and animals are dying and showing up in places they shouldn't, the Arctic is heating rapidly and sea levels are rising. By Stephen Leahy.
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The Arctic is undergoing rapid and possibly irreversible climate change, says a major report.
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New research is raising concerns that global warming may be triggering a self-perpetuating climate time bomb trapped in once-frozen permafrost.
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Global warming is melting the Arctic ice faster than expected, and the world's oceans could rise by about a meter (3 feet) by 2100, swamping homes from Bangladesh to Florida, the head of a study said on Tuesday.