OTTAWA - Canadian navy ship H-M-C-S Toronto is conducting a search-and-rescue operation to find nine people believed at sea after a volcanic eruption on Jazirt Atta-Ir island, about 140 kilometres off the coast of Yemen in the Red Sea.
The navy said in a news release from Ottawa that at the time of the eruption, the [...]
The Svalbard archipelago near the North Pole is already seeing the dramatic effects of global warming: the mercury is rising twice as fast as elsewhere on the planet, posing a serious threat to the ecosystem. The Arctic sea ice has never been as small as it is now. This year, it shrank to less than [...]
NewScientist.com
David Shiga
What do dropped mobile phone calls, mysterious signals in undersea communications cables, and tiny tremors on the Earth have in common? They are all caused by vibrations on the Sun, according to one team of scientists. But other researchers question the claim, arguing that the pulsations may never escape the Sun’s surface in the [...]
There was less sea ice in the Arctic on Friday than ever before on record, and the melting is continuing, the National Snow and Ice Data Center reported.
“Today is a historic day,” said Mark Serreze, a senior research scientist at the center. “This is the least sea ice we’ve ever seen in the satellite record [...]
Today, the Northern Hemisphere sea ice area broke the record for the lowest recorded ice area in recorded history. The new record came a full month before the historic summer minimum typically occurs. There is still a month or more of melt likely this year. It is therefore almost certain that the previous 2005 record [...]
The New Zealand Herald
By Geoffrey Lean
MANAUS - Deep in the heart of the world’s greatest rainforest, a nine-day journey by boat from the sea, Otavio Luz Castello is anxiously watching the soft waters of the Amazon drain away.
Every day they recede further, like water running slowly out of an immense bathtub, threatening a worldwide catastrophe.
Standing [...]
Scientific American
A new way to examine humanity’s impact on the environment is to consider how the world would fare if all the people disappeared
By Steve Mirsky
Editors’ Introduction
It’s a common fantasy to imagine that you’re the last person left alive on earth. But what if all human beings were suddenly whisked off the planet? That [...]
www.redelk.org
“In the tradition of the Cherokee secret medicine societies, the Elders of the Twisted Hairs Society, I have been moved by the secret knowledge and spirit to reveal these words…
-“Metis” Thomas ThunderEagle
THIS SACRED KNOWLEGE is from my Elder Heyoehkah, the war chief of the Twisted Hairs and a member of their council of Elders…
“You seek [...]
By Dave Mosher, LiveScience Staff Writer
[LiveScience] “A new NASA satellite has recorded the first detailed images from space of a mysterious type of cloud called “night-shining†or “noctilucent.”
The clouds are on the move, brightening and creeping out of polar regions, and researchers don’t know why.” Read more
Sphere: Related Content
NewScientist.com news service
by Catherine Brahic
Countries around the Mediterranean are set to suffer up to five times as many dangerously hot summer days if greenhouse gas emissions continue their relentless rise, say researchers.
France will see the greatest increase in extreme summer temperatures, they predict. Read the full article at NewScientist.com
Sphere: Related Content
The inconvenient truth about the carbon offset industry
In the concluding part of a major investigation, Nick Davies shows how greenhouse gas credits do little or nothing to combat global warming
Read the full article at Guardian Unlimited
Sphere: Related Content
Oil Prices Rise As Storm Threatens Arabian Peninsula
Tens Of Thousands Evacuated From Coastal Cities In Oman
(CBS News) MUSCAT, Oman Oman evacuated tens of thousands of people Wednesday, suspended oil exports, and closed the major port of Sohar as a weakening Cyclone Gonu roared toward the Strait of Hormuz - the world’s major transport artery for [...]