Tag: "global warming"

Nomura's Jellyfish - Credit: Kenpei

Nomura’s Jellyfish Threatening Japanese Fishing Industry

Scientists believe climate change and its oceans warming are to be blamed for jellyfish overpopulation, expanding their ranges and appearing earlier in the year.

Nov 19, 2009 | 0 comments View Post
Antarctica sea ice - Data collected during NASA's Operation Ice Bridge with airborne radar and laser instruments will provide information about surface elevation, snow depth and ice thickness. Other primary targets include ice sheets and glaciers. - Image Credit: National Snow and Ice Data Center

NASA’s Flights Over Antarctic Continent Bridge Satellite Gap

NASA is currently conducting Operation Ice Bridge, a six-year campaign of annual flights to each of Earth’s polar regions designed to help scientists bridge the gap between NASA’s Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) — which is operating the last of its three lasers — and ICESat-II, scheduled to launch in 2014 by providing the needed data collected by researchers on board the DC-8, a 157-foot-long airborne laboratory and the largest aircraft in NASA’s airborne science fleet that accommodates many instruments.

Nov 06, 2009 | 0 comments View Post
Damselfish in coral scene - NOAA's Coral Kingdom Collection, Photographer: David Burdick

A Different Kind of Global Warming Threat for Marine Life

Marine life is suffering the consequences of global warming in many different ways. Not only is it threatened by the changing environment, loss of habitat, species migration as a response to the changing habitat, but it seems warmer waters also changes some fishes behavior, making them easy prey.

Oct 01, 2009 | 1 comment View Post
El Niño Central-Eastern - UM Rosenstiel School

New Climate Phenomenon May Decrease El Niño’s Benefits

El Niño, the periodic eastern Pacific phenomenon credited with shielding the United States and Caribbean from severe hurricane seasons among other benefits may be overshadowed by its brother in the central Pacific due to global warming, according to an article in the September 24 issue of the journal Nature.

Sep 24, 2009 | 0 comments View Post
Arctic sea ice extent on September 12, 2009. Daily Arctic sea ice extent on September 12 was 5.10 million square kilometers (1.97 million square miles). The orange line shows the 1979 to 2000 median extent for that day. The black cross indicates the geographic North Pole. - National Snow and Ice Data Center

200 Dead Walruses in Alaska: Global Warming Blamed

The Arctic sea ice has reached the third-lowest level ever recorded, and up to 200 walruses, which appear to be mostly new calves and yearlings, have been reported dead near Icy Cape on the north coast of Alaska – further evidence of global warming’s brutal transformation of the Arctic.

Sep 23, 2009 | 2 comments View Post
Coral Reef - Credit: Tim McClanahan/WCS

New Research Gives Hope For Coral Reefs

Wildlife Conservation Society’s newest research shows some coral reefs may survive effects of ongoing climate change through better fisheries management.

Apr 28, 2009 | 0 comments View Post
An illustration of the carbon cycle -- Courtesy: NOAA

NOAA-Led Study Shows Climate Change Largely Irreversible

It is impossible nowadays to have an informed discussion of global warming and climate change without understanding the role of the oceans in affecting the key processes of change.  A new study led by award-winning NOAA scientist Susan Solomon, examined how changes in surface temperature, rainfall and sea level are largely irreversible for more than 1,000 [...]

Jan 29, 2009 | 0 comments View Post