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Antarctic Ice Sheet Mass gains greater than losses
A new NASA study on the Antarctic Ice Sheet says that an increase in Antarctic snow accumulation that began 10,000 years ago is currently adding enough ice to the continent to outweigh the increased losses from its thinning glaciers. The ...
Hurricane Irma Live Webcams Where You Can Watch
Hurricane Irma Live Webcams Hurricane Irma is forecasted to make landfall on the southern tip of the Florida peninsula, with the eye of the Category 4 storm expected to pass over the Florida Keys sometime early Sunday (Sept. 10). We ...
Lack of snow = depression
Moscow No snow: In 2016, Russian health authorities feared that a rare lack of snowfall could cause a wave of depression across the country. It was the warmest December in Russia since 1870, and much of the country didn't seen ...
Pope Francis’ Revolution To Save Earth’s Ecosystem
Pope Francis' climate encyclical went well beyond any sermons, delving into fields familiar to any Catholic, such as Scripture and theology, but also wandering into sociology, politics, urban planning, economics, globalization, biology and other areas of scientific research. It's main ...
Buzz Aldrin Survived Arctic Health Crisis
On Dec 1st 2016, 86 year old former astronaut Buzz Aldrin was evacuated from the South Pole after his health deteriorated during a trip with a tourist group visiting the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. After being transported to Christchurch, the ...
The environmental costs of a Thanksgiving meal
It’s easy to romanticize the 1621 coming-together of the Wampanoag tribe with the struggling European settlers, which many people now view as the original Thanksgiving. From an environmental perspective, the nostalgic urge is stronger still. The carbon footprint of the ...
2015 Arctic Circle Assembly
Event Type: Conferences and Workshops When: 16 October 2015 to 18 October 2015 Where: Reykjavik, Iceland More information: http://arcticcircle.org The 2015 Arctic Circle Assembly is due to convene in the coming weeks. The Arctic Circle is the largest global gathering ...
Pope Francis’ Tough Stance On Climate Change
In 2015, Pope Francis, the leader the Catholic Church, issued the first-ever comprehensive set of Vatican teachings on climate change, in the form of an encyclical—or "papal letter"—sent to churches worldwide. Plans also include personally lobbying for climate action action ...
Climate encyclical sent strong moral message to the world
Lima, Peru A look back on Pope Francis' climate encyclical on ecology and climate shows that it sent a strong moral message -- a message that made some readers uncomfortable, some observers said. Before the encyclical, Archbishop Pedro Barreto Jimeno ...
Pope Francis tells youths to shake things up
Pope Francis is telling young people to "shake things up", but then help clean the mess up. His exhortation which took place on Sunday, 7/13/2015 during the final appearance on his three-country tour in South America. His speech was a ...
