Detailed satellite scans of a key glacier in West Antarctica have renewed warnings that a combination of meltwater and seawater flowing deep underneath the ice is causing “vigorous melting” at the base of the Thwaites Glacier—nicknamed the ‘Doomsday Glacier’ because of its potential to raise sea levels by ten feet if itread more
A proposal to amend the current five-level scale used to measure the severity of hurricanes to include a sixth category for the most powerful of tropical cyclones has been put forward, as a method of improving the classification—and thus the communication of—the destructiveness of a given storm, especially as weread more
Half of the world’s economies are at least five years past their peak fossil fuel usage for power generation, according to a new study, with 107 of the countries surveyed burning less coal, oil and gas to produce electricity than they were between five and 23 years ago, resulting inread more
A new study has found that ice loss from glaciers in Alaska has been causing an increase in both the frequency and magnitude of earthquakes over 5.0 in the region. While sea level rise, extreme weather and surface ice loss are the more apparent consequences of global warming, it’s easyread more