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 ...

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 ...

WATCH: Rare Video of a Mysterious Whale That Surfaced in Hawaii | Lisa Denning

Blainville’s beaked whales like to dive in deep offshore waters and are seldom seen. Feb. 5, 2015 (TakePart.com) -- How lucky is it that when two young Blainville’s beaked whales made a recent appear ...

Humans Have Brought World's Oceans to Brink of 'Major Extinction Event' | Deirdre Fulton

But 'proactive intervention' could still avert marine disaster, researchers find "Although defaunation has been less severe in the oceans than on land, our effects on marine animals are increasing in ...

2014 Was Hottest Year on Earth in Recorded History | NY Times

Jan. 16, 2015 (New York Times) -- Last year was the hottest in earth’s recorded history, scientists reported Friday, underscoring scientific warnings about the risks of runaway emissions and undermin ...

This is Your Ocean on Acid | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust “I don’t know how to save the world. I don’t have the answers or The Answer. I hold no secret knowledge as to how to fix the mistakes of generati ...

Dark Age America: The Rising Oceans | John Michael Greer

Credited to ideas.etublogs.usj.edu.lbAug. 6, 2014 (Archdruid Report) -- The vagaries of global climate set in motion by our species’ frankly brainless maltreatment of the only atmosphere we’ve got, t ...