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- Billionaires are funding massive mineral hunt in Greenland Wed, 10 Aug 22, 5:30amJeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg and other billionaires are on a mission to find treasures in Greenland as the ice shelf melt. The billionaires are funding a massive treasure hunt in anticipation of finding important...
- Scientists discover that melting glaciers are slowing down the Earth’s rotation Wed, 6 Jan 16, 4:30amClimate change is becoming more and more difficult to ignore and rising sea levels are just one of the visible consequences of these effects. NASA has predicted a one meter rise worldwide in the next few centuries just by...
- Scientists discover that the melting glaciers are slowing down the Earth’s rotation Tue, 5 Jan 16, 10:00pmClimate change is becoming more and more difficult to ignore and rising sea levels are just one of the visible consequences of these effects. NASA has predicted a one meter rise worldwide in the next few centuries just by...
- Kiribati Considered Moving Entire Population to a $2 Billion Man-Made Island Mon, 20 Oct 14, 2:06amThe small island nation of Kiribati's highest point is no more than two meters above sea level, which makes it one of the most vulnerable places on Earth to rising water levels...
- NAS and Royal Society Scientists Answer All Your Climate Change Questions in New Report Fri, 28 Feb 14, 3:17amImage of penguins on melting ice / Shutterstock A joint report released by the US National Academy of Sciences and The Royal Society warns that not only is man-made global warming real, it will have devastating impact for...
- A Darker Arctic is Making the Earth Warm Faster Thu, 20 Feb 14, 10:00pmA new study from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography reveals a troubling trend in the Arctic: as the planet warms and the ice caps melt, the Earth is losing its ability to reflect heat back into space...
- New Study Shows Sea Levels Will Rise Two Feet in Just 70 Years Mon, 16 Dec 13, 10:00pmA new study in the journal Scientific Reports estimates that melting ice will cause sea levels to rise 2 feet within the next 70 years, and a whopping 8 feet by the year 2200...
- New Study Shows Sea Levels will Rise Two Feet in Next 70 Years Mon, 16 Dec 13, 10:00pmA new study in the journal Scientific Reports estimates that melting ice will cause sea levels to rise 2 feet within the next 70 years, and a whopping 8 feet by the year 2200...
- Climate Change Will Make Refugees Out of Hundreds of Millions, Expert Warns Mon, 13 May 13, 10:08pmPhoto via Shutterstock After news broke last week that carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have officially surpassed the 400 parts per million mark, a leading economist and researcher has warned that hundreds of millions...
- New Study of Giant Antarctic Ice Core Sheds Light on Thousands of Years of Climate History Fri, 24 Aug 12, 11:45pmAntarctica Photo from Shutterstock Published this week in Nature Magazine, a new study by an international group of polar scientists offers the first comprehensive reconstruction of thousands of years of the Earth’s climate...
- Scientists Prove that CO2 Emissions Drove Most Recent Ice Age Fri, 6 Apr 12, 3:57amIceberg photo from Shutterstock Climate change deniers often sing the frustrating song that carbon dioxide emissions are harmless, but a groundbreaking study by scientists at Harvard, the University of Wisconsin, and Oregon...
- Kiribati Considers Moving Entire Population to a $2 Billion Man-Made Island Wed, 14 Mar 12, 2:06amThe island nation of Kiribati’s highest point is no more than two meters above sea level, which makes it one of the most vulnerable places on Earth to rising water levels...
- Kiribati Island Nation Considers Moving Entire Population to Fiji to Escape Climate Change Sat, 10 Mar 12, 5:53amThe Pacific island nation Kiribati has found itself at the epicenter of the global climate change debate, as it is one of the first places that will be destroyed if sea levels rise as predicted through this century...
- The “Big Kahuna”: Another Giant Piece of Glacier Set to Break Off Rendering Researchers “Speechless” Sat, 3 Sep 11, 1:37amDon’t believe that climate change is real? This time last year, a piece of ice 4 times the size of Manhattan broke off the Petermann Glacier in Greenland, spurring a congressional hearing on climate change and global...
- Studio Lindfors’ Haunting Visual Prediction of Our Flooded Future World Sun, 22 Nov 09, 1:00amThe phrases “melting polar ice caps” and “rising water lines” are so ubiquitous now that they’ve almost lost their meaning...