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Researchers Accurately Measure Concentrations of PCB Pollutants in Ice of Alpine Glacier

As glaciers increasingly melt in the wake of climate change, it is not only the landscape that is affected. Thawing glaciers also release many industrial pollutants stored in the ice into the environment.

3 Nov 2014

Deep Ice Sheet Coring Drill Provides Cores for Climate Study

Wisconsin is famous for its ice fishers — the stalwarts who drill holes through lake ice in the hope of catching a winter dinner. Less well known are the state's big-league ice drillers — specialists who design huge drills and use them to drill deep into ice in Greenland and Antarctica, places where even summer seems like winter.

31 Oct 2014

Antarctic Ozone Hole Reaches Annual Peak Size in September

The Antarctic ozone hole reached its annual peak size on Sept. 11, according to scientists from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The size of this year’s hole was 24.1 million square kilometers (9.3 million square miles) — an area roughly the size of North America.

31 Oct 2014

New Technique to Accurately Measure Major Greenhouse Gases

By remotely "combing" the atmosphere with a custom laser-based instrument, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), have developed a new technique that can accurately measure—over a sizeable distance—amounts of several of the major "greenhouse" gases implicated in climate change.

30 Oct 2014

Weight of Penguin Chicks Connected to Weather Conditions

Adélie penguins are an indigenous species of the West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP), one of the most rapidly warming areas on Earth. Since 1950, the average annual temperature in the Antarctic Peninsula has increased 2 degrees Celsius on average, and 6 degrees Celsius during winter.

29 Oct 2014

Using a New Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer Chemical Plant Reduces Emissions, Carbon Footprint and Operating Expenses

Pure Terephthalic Acid (PTA) is a white powder-substance used extensively in the production of plastics and polyester products like fibers or films. The material is produced in a pressurized reactor where acetic acid and xylene are combined chemically in the presence of catalyst.

From Anguil Environmental Systems 28 Oct 2014

Stricter Fisheries Management Overcomes Detrimental Effects of Climate Change Disturbances

A new study has found that implementing stricter fisheries management overcame the expected detrimental effects of climate change disturbances in coral reef fisheries badly impacted by the 1997/98 El Niño, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society.

27 Oct 2014

AMS Study Identifies Four Categories of Climate Change Risk Management

Policy options for climate change risk management are straightforward and have well understood strengths and weaknesses, according to a new study by the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Policy Program.

27 Oct 2014

Soil Microbes Amplify Global Climate Change

As permafrost soils thaw under the influence of global warming, communities of soil microbes act as potent amplifiers of global climate change, an international study has shown.

24 Oct 2014

Progress in Understanding the Karakoram Glacier Anomaly

Researchers from Princeton University and other institutions may have hit upon an answer to a climate-change puzzle that has eluded scientists for years, and that could help understand the future availability of water for hundreds of millions of people.

24 Oct 2014