News from the polar regions during September included many applications of satellite technology, ecological impacts of climate change, and calls for continued research in the Arctic. Missed these stories the first time? Read on!
1999 to 2008 was the warmest decade in the Arctic in two millennia, notes a new study. This is a reversal of […]

When scientists from the United Kingdom and the United States set out to find evidence of a link between carbon dioxide levels and the formation of ice caps in Antarctica some 34 million years ago, they went to a remote village in Tanzania. .They and other scientists believed there might be fossil evidence to such […]

While cautioning that melting ice sheets are an unknown factor, many research groups have forecast that global warming will cause sea levels to rise in this century, with mixed impacts on coastlines. For instance, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projected a rise of 7 to 23 inches. Now a team of scientists funded by […]

Do you have questions about climate change? Do others – students, their parents, friends — ask you questions about the reasons for or the dangers of climate change? The Center for the Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) has put its 15-page booklet of answers, in easy-to-understand language, online in a pdf file.
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