Cyclone Nargis decimated part of Myanmar from May 2-4, its huge rains and storm surge flooding the Irrawaddy River delta, killing at least 22,000 people and leaving twice as many missing as of this writing.
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Why the Myanmar cyclone was so deadly
Published May 9th, 2008 in Hurricanes, Science, Photos, Oceans, Climate & Weather, Earth and Global Warming. 2 CommentsCarbon dioxide, methane on the rise
Published April 29th, 2008 in Science, Arctic, Earth, Climate & Weather and Global Warming. 0 CommentsA new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is not surprising, but it is important: Global levels of carbon dioxide and methane both increased sharply in 2007.
Glacial melt accelerates
Published March 20th, 2008 in Glaciers, Science, Arctic, Earth, Climate & Weather and Global Warming. 1 CommentA new report finds that glaciers around the globe melted and thinned twice as fast in 2006 as they did in 2004. Ice at the North Pole isn’t faring much better: This winter, the thin seasonal ice spread farther than usual, but the thicker perennial ice thinned out and retreated.
How does ‘global climate disruption’ sound?
Published February 29th, 2008 in Hurricanes, Science, Oceans, Earth, Global Warming, Climate & Weather and Human World. 7 CommentsThat’s the term we should use instead of “global warming,” says Harvard scientist John Holdren. He argues that “global warming” underrates the problem. Here’s why …
How do you conserve what the climate’s going to change?
Published January 31st, 2008 in Oceans, Science, Earth, Climate & Weather, Global Warming, Animals and Human World. 4 CommentsAn article this week in the New York Times explores an interesting predicament: In an era of climate change, conservation groups that work to preserve biologically important landscapes could find their work eventually undermined, or even pointless.
2007 continued warm trend
Published January 25th, 2008 in Science, Oceans, Earth, Climate & Weather and Global Warming. 3 CommentsTwo recent reports put 2007 as either the second-warmest year in the last century, or the fifth-warmest. Either way, 2007 was part of a trend of warm years — a trend that has seen the rate of warming triple in recent decades.
Europe suffers its first tropical virus
Published December 31st, 2007 in Science, Climate & Weather, Animals, Global Warming and Human World. 4 CommentsA village in northern Italy got the dubious distinction this year of becoming the first place in modern Europe to suffer an outbreak of a tropical disease.
Mystery of the missing carbon dioxide
Published December 31st, 2007 in Science, Earth, Climate & Weather and Global Warming. 5 CommentsScientists have learned a lot about climate change in the last 20 years, but some questions remain unanswered. One of the most puzzling is that nobody knows where all of carbon dioxide emissions from around the globe end up every year.
‘Storm World’ examines hurricanes and global warming
Published October 31st, 2007 in Hurricanes, Science, Oceans, Earth, Climate & Weather and Global Warming. 3 CommentsThe record-setting Atlantic hurricane season of 2005, which included Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, sparked a lot of debate over whether global warming was in part responsible for all of the records, including the way the hurricane season lasted five weeks longer than normal, finally ending Jan. 6, 2006.
Why the world is getting wetter
Published October 31st, 2007 in Science, Earth, Climate & Weather and Global Warming. 2 CommentsAt an October 29 seminar on Capitol Hill, scientists explained how and why the world is getting wetter as the globe gets warmer.