Trillion-tonne iceberg breaks off Antarctica (Update) | AFP

Thermal wavelength image of a large iceberg, which has calved off the Larsen C ice shelf. Darker colors are colder, and brighter colors are warmer, so the rift between the iceberg and the ice shelf a ...

Increasing likelihood of extreme sea levels | Thomas Wahl

A family is evacuated during the great storm of 1953. Credit: Canterbury City Council July 7, 2017 (Phys.org) -- Scientists at the University of Southampton are warning that future coastal impact stu ...

Earth's magnetic field 'simpler than we thought' | M.H. Walczak et al

A composite image of the Western hemisphere of the Earth. Credit: NASAJuly 7, 2017 (Phys.org) -- Scientists have identified patterns in the Earth's magnetic field that evolve on the order of 1,000 ye ...

Falling sea level caused volcanos to overflow | Jörg Hasenclever et al

Model of an island volcano. During the last transition to glacial conditions the decreasing pressure at the seafloor could have induced increased lava- and carbon dioxide emissions. Credit: Jörg Hase ...

Meltwater lakes under the Antarctic Ice Sheet accelerated glacial retreat in the Earth's past | Alfred Wegener Institute

A satellite image of Antarctica. Credit: Wikipedia, Public Domain June 1, 2017 (Phys.org) -- During the last glacial period -- when the ice in the Antarctic was far thicker and extended further offsh ...

Possible signs of life found ten kilometers below seafloor | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Credit: Oliver Plümper, Utrecht University April 11, 2017 (Phys.org) -- An international team of researchers has found possible evidence of life ten kilometers below the sea floor in the Mariana Tren ...

New Study 'Sounds Alarm' on Another Climate Feedback Loop | Andrea Germanos

Arctic Tundra. (Photo: USFWS) "What we know from this study is that warming will result in the loss of stored carbon in a wide variety of ecosystems -- and that has potentially harmful effects in ter ...

Salt-Water Fish Extinction Seen By 2048 | Daniel DeNoon

Fossil fish. By John Marsh. Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0) Nov. 2, 2015 (CBS) -- The apocalypse has a new date: 2048. That's when the world's oceans will be empty of fish, predicts an international team of ec ...

Atlantis Won't Sink, Experts Agree | John Michael Greer

John Michael GreerApril 1, 2015 (Archdruid Report) -- If you’re like most Atlanteans these days, you’ve heard all sorts of unnerving claims about the future of our continent. Some people are even say ...

The Oceans Are Dying | Paul Craig Roberts

Photo: Sonia Baumstein. March 30, 2015 (PaulCraigRoberts.org) -- I am an admirer of Dahr Jamail’s reporting. In this article, Oceans In Crisis, Jamail tells us that we are losing the oceans. He repor ...

BOOKS: 'Unprecedented,' By David Ray Griffin | Joel S. Hirschhorn

Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust Feb. 11, 2015 Every so often a nonfiction book comes along that, because of its objective, comprehensive coverage of a hot topic, should be carefully read with ...