Two Antarctic weather stations recorded unprecedentedly high temperatures in March — offering grim evidence of accelerating climate change. A potential Antarctica record high of 63.5 degrees Fahrenheit was recorded on March 24 at the Esperanza Base, just south of the southern tip of Argentina—a temperature exceeding any figure yet observed on the Antarctic landmass or…
2014 was the Earth’s warmest year since records began in 1880, according to reports from federal scientists published Friday. The finding reached by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA offers more confirmation of the planet’s warming trend as a result of greenhouse gas emissions. NOAA stated that 2014’s combined global land and ocean…
Pope Francis will take on global warming in 2015, with a lengthy speech on human ecology and climate change to the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics, an address to the United Nations general assembly, and a summit of the world’s main religions, according to the Observer. The Sunday paper reports: The reason for such frenetic activity,…
This past September may have felt pretty typical for the South Bend region: a sharp change in seasons with highs dipping into the 50s and then back near 70. But it was far from typical on a global scale. September 2014 was the warmest on record, according to a new report from NOAA. The global…
The ocean is getting warmer at a rate that far outpaces previous estimates, a new study published Sunday has discovered. Since 1970, the top 700 meters (roughly 2,296 feet) of the ocean have been heating up 24 to 55 percent faster than scientists have been estimating, the report, published in Nature Climate Change, found—a massive…
Federal biologists have discovered an unusual phenomenon on a beach in northwest Alaska: a massive gathering of walruses—35,000 of them—crowded onto a small strip of shore. This swarm, which was sighted in a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration aerial survey on Saturday, is a direct result of a warming climate and declining sea ice, say…
A crowd of at least 310,000 flooded the streets of New York Sunday for the historic People’s Climate March, billed as the largest demonstration of its kind in history, organized by more than 1,500 organizations including indigenous, faith, labor, environmental justice, social justice, youth, and climate activism groups. The rally was three times the size…
It is still mid-September and fall has yet to officially arrive but the past few days have had a chilliness in the air that remind us that winter is just around the corner (a reminder that most of us do not want). And while several past winters have been unusually warm, the most recent one…
In an unprecedented move that illustrates the dramatic impacts of planetary global warming, one community in the South Pacific has decided it has no choice but to pick itself up entirely and flee for higher ground. All too aware of their vulnerability to the effects of climate change — such as rising sea levels and…
