A sudden warming event high in the stratosphere that is threatening to reverse a major air current found in that layer of the atmosphere has occurred, a reversal that, in turn, runs a high probability of disrupting the air currents that contain the polar vortex that circles the Arctic, somethingread more
Greenland’s glaciers may be melting 100 times faster than previously estimated, according to a new ice melt model that corrects an old assumption that was based on the melt rate of glaciers a world away in Antarctica. Previous models used to estimate how Greenland’s ice melts have been based offread more
In 2015 it was revealed that Exxon had, in the 1970s and 1980s, conducted extensive research into global warming, using the company’s extensive resources to investigate the impact that the use of their product would have on the environment, long before the phenomenon came to be a growing concern amongstread more
While one of the main concerns regarding the ongoing melt of Arctic permafrost is the release of greenhouse gases such as methane previously trapped in the frozen soil, there are other elements, such as ancient viruses and bacteria that could poseread more