Scientific Cruise Yields Wealth of Information About Arctic Seafloor
November 29, 2001On board ice-breaking ships, scientists have mapped the Gakkel Ridge, a never-before-studied part of the mid-ocean ridge system. (Reuters, Scientific American)
Studying Climate Changes in Alaska
November 28, 2001In Alaska, the signs of warming are unmistakable: Cliffs crumbling into the ocean, melting ice cellars, homes sinking into newly unfrozen ground. (Scripps Howard News Service)
Hobart Conference Explores Impact of Global Warming
November 26, 2001At a conference in Hobart, Australia, scientists discussed the affects of climate change on plants. (ABC News Online)
Global Warming Seen Moderating
November 26, 2001Global warming could level out in the 22nd century, said scientists who have for the first time pushed their computer models of the world?s climate to 2200. (Discovery.com)
Melting Glaciers Slowed Down Gulf Stream in Past
November 25, 2001A circulatory system that drives the Gulf Stream may have shut down about
11.5 to 13 thousand years ago, causing Western Europe to cool down. (USA Today, Science Daily, Cosmiverse)
Forest Management Could Combat Global warming
November 22, 2001Forest management may hold a key to keeping global warming in check, according to a new Science magazine study. (United Press International)
Something Missing in Fragile Cloud Forest: The Clouds
November 20, 2001 Deforestation in the lowlands in Costa Rica, outside of Monteverde?s reserves is causing the life-giving curtain of fog and mist to move out of the forests' reach. (New York Times)
Global Warming Occurred Millions of Years Ago
November 20, 2001A team from a scientific ocean floor drilling expedition has gathered evidence that the Earth warmed millions of years ago. (ENN.com)
Global Warming May Hit Skiing
November 17, 2001Scientists are warning that the changing climate is melting alpine glaciers at an unprecedented rate, and ski areas may be without snow in 15 years. (BBC News on-line)
Ocean Temps, Solar Cycles Linked
November 15, 2001The brightening and dimming of the sun may account for a 1500-year cycle of cooling and warming on parts of the Earth, a study of ice in the North Atlantic suggests. (Associated Press)
Satellite Data Confirms Warming of Earth?s Climate
November 14, 2001A clear pattern of global warming is emerging as American space scientists analyze satellite data from more than 7,000 weather stations around the world. (Environmental News Network, ScienceDaily, Spaceflight Now)
Sea Level May Reflect Global Warming
November 12, 2001Sea level has risen between 12 and 20 inches along Maine?s coast and as much as two feet in Nova Scotia during the past 250 years, researchers said. (MSNBC)
Weather Looms Large at Climate Change Talks in Morocco
November 9, 2001Morocco hosts the latest conference on climate change as the desert around the country expands and droughts become more frequent. (Associated Press)
City Light Help Pinpoint Urban Heat Islands
November 8, 2001A new report by NASA scientists says that human influence via urbanization isn't completely to blame for global warming. The report used satellite images of nighttime lights to help determine if urban areas skewed global warming results. (Weather.com, Yahoo News.com)
Scallop Shells Hold Clues to Antarctic Climate
November 8, 2001Scientists studying growth bands on shells of scallops can see annual and seasonal environmental trends, and they hope to piece together a year-by-year picture of temperature change in Antarctica over the last century. (United Press International on-line)
Global Warming to Hit Key Food Crops
November 8, 2001A recent report from a United Nations program says that harvests from some of the world?s key food crops could drop by up to 30 percent in the next 100 years due to global warming. (Reuters)
Landsat 7 Allows Reef Watchers to Document Degradation
November 8, 2001According to research using images from NASA?s Landsat 7 satellite, only 5 percent of the coral in Florida Keys? Carysfort Reef remains alive. (ENN.com)
Global Warming ?Altering Genes?
November 6, 2001Scientists say that global warming is leading to changes in the genetic make-up of animals and have cited changes in the genes of mosquitoes. (BBC News on-line)
Warming Could Affect Winter Birds
November 4, 2001The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds say that climate warming could submerge mudflats and marshes, key habitats for Arctic water birds that spend winter on Britain?s coastline. (BBC News on-line)
Greenland Ice Sheet Melting
November 1, 2001A new global warming study by a Canadian and a Dutch scientist concluded that parts of the Greenland icesheet is melting at up to 16 1/2 inches (42 centimeters) per year, and thinning is affective ice at higher altitudes than expected. (Australian Broadcasting Corporation on-line)