Accelerated Warming in the Arctic

Why is warming in the Arctic accelerating and where will this lead to? Where does the extra heat go?  Global warming is causing Earth to hea...

You are now entering the nonlinearity zone…

By Paul Beckwith Adapted from a  September 28, 2012,  post at the Sierra Club Canada blog Push something and it moves a little. Push it a li...

Vanishing Arctic sea ice is rapidly changing global climate

By Paul Beckwith Adapted from a  September 21, 2012,  post at the  Sierra Club Canada blog About 5 million years ago continental drift pushe...

The atmosphere's shift of state and the origin of extreme weather events

By Andrew Glikson , Australian National University Andrew Glikson, earth and paleo-climate scientist at Australian National University The l...

Expedition to study methane gas bubbling out of the Arctic seafloor

The black rectangle on this map shows the general region where Paull and his collaborators have been studying methane releases in the Beaufo...

Changes to Polar Vortex affect mile-deep ocean circulation patterns

Sept. 23, 2012 – A University of Utah study suggests something amazing: Periodic changes in winds 15 to 30 miles high in the stratosphere in...

Methane fields in the Laptev Sea

Below is part of a recent interview published by Voice of Russia - click here for the full report . Editorial note: We anxiously await furth...

Professor Peter Wadhams calls for action

In the Youtube video below, Professor Peter Wadhams, Professor of Ocean Physics and Head of the Polar Ocean Physics Group of the University...

Arctic sea ice gone in September 2014

NSIDC have already made a preliminary call that September 16 was the date that sea ice extent was at its minimum in the year 2012. Volume i...

NSIDC calls record 2012 low

This  NASA satellite image shows how the Arctic sea ice extent, on Sept. 16, 2012, compares to the average minimum extent over the past 30 ...