Tag: climate change

The remote location of polar oceans, their vastness and dangerous environment raise significant challenges when gathering data and conducting science. However, advances in technology are providing new opportunities for data collection that go beyond what was possible even 20 years ago.

The British Antarctic Survey and the Norwegian Polar Institute published a joint report on the state of the polar oceans, which are critical for the planet. The report says that despite the importance of polar oceans, science has still so much to discover. Namely, we might be advancing our understanding about them. but there remains an urgent need for further investigations.

In his address to the Finnish Climate Summit in Helsinki in mid-June, Finnish President Sauli Niinistö called on the Arctic Council to have 'a first ever Arctic Summit' in order to tackle black carbon emissions in the polar region, noting that there is no time to wait on climate change.

Even if carbon emissions were to be completely eliminated tomorrow, human-driven climate change wound still take place for a long time. By the end of this century, Earth's temperature will be almost 3 degrees Fahrenheit higher than now, with less water resources and more droughts expected.

Future global warming may eventually be twice as warm as projected by climate models, while sea levels may rise six metres or more, even if the world meets the 2°C target, according to a new international research from 17 countries published last week in Nature Geoscience.

An international study lead by the Technical University of Denmark finds that the bedrock below the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is rising surprisingly fast which reveals an very fluid Earth Mantle. The unexpectedly fast rate of the rising earth may increase the stability of the ice sheet against catastrophic collapse due to ice loss.

The US Department of Energy announced $15 million in funding for 27 projects in atmospheric and ecological sciences, in an effort to improve the ability of Earth system models to predict weather and climate. The projects cover a wide range of topics in atmospheric and terrestrial ecosystem studies.

By 2050, as many as one in every seven people in Bangladesh will have been forced to leave their homes because of climate change, says a new report by the Environmental Justice Foundation. The report highlights how urgent it is that the EU takes steps to mitigate against climate change.

UN Climate Change launched its first-ever Annual Report, laying out the key 2017 achievements and pointing to the future of the climate change process. The report covers many areas of the 2017 work of UN Climate Change, which includes the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Kyoto Protocol and Paris Agreement.

None of the world’s challenges loom as large as climate change, the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said in his keynote address to the R20 Austrian World Summit in mid-May, reiterating his belief that global warming poses an “existential threat” to humanity.