Climate Pulse

Photo via Nature Blog By now, it's become quite clear that climate change presents a number of threats to life on Earth. So while manipulative politicians and skeptical media outlets continue to voice dissent, institutions like the US military are already in the process of planning, with the aid of... [continue]

image: Klimacampus Though currently the extent of Arctic sea ice in lower than it was back in 2007, when the current record minimum was set, two different groups of German scientists' forecasts show continued rapid decline but no new record to be set by this September. ...Read the full story on... [continue]

photo: Matt Lemmon via flickr It may not offer relief from the sweat dripping down your forehead in the midst of a heatwave as you walk down the street, but you can take comfort that it's not all in your head. Heatwaves are indeed getting more pronounced. As Our Amazing Planet reports, sprawling... [continue]

Image: NOAA Ocean Explorer, Flickr The Evil Twin of Global Warming Ocean acidification naturally results from elevated levels of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere. The oceans absorb CO2, which becomes carbonic acid as it dissolves into the sea water. Ocean acidification picked up the moniker... [continue]

Photo via Ale1980Italy A new study has once again confirmed what we already knew -- that the vast, vast majority of scientists working in the field are convinced by the evidence that there is human-induced climate change. This latest analysis is one of the largest surveys yet attempted, and... [continue]

photo: Jeffery DelViscio via flickr With all the talk about getting the United States off of oil, energy independence, creating a low-carbon future, et cetera, one of the key parts of that is reducing carbon emissions, whether they are from electricity, transportation or wherever they occur.... [continue]

Courtesy Metcalf Institute. Seeing an environmental journalist in the wild can be akin to seeing a dinosaur. The profession has taken some hits in recent years, with a decline in newspapers and reporting jobs in general. The reporters that remain seem to be getting stronger, though. They're... [continue]

This image from 2008 shows deep crevasses in Pine Island Glacier (in the square), indications of its rapid movement. Photo: NASA. Some new research on the rapidly melting Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica offers some more detail on why it is losing ice so precipitously. Scientists from the British... [continue]

Image via Berkeley Square Jazz Senator John Kerry (D-MA) has become the figurehead for clean energy and climate legislation. After the bizarre unfolding of events with Lindsey Graham, Kerry and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) are left to try to advance the bill through an unreceptive Senate. But today, the... [continue]

photo: Dominic Alves via flickr Taking a look back to past global climate changes, researchers led by Timothy Herbert of Brown University have determined that for at least the past 2.7 million years tropical temperatures have "changed in lockstep" with the cyclical spread and retreat of ice sheets,... [continue]