Tag: global warming

Greenland records highest temperatures in a millennium
January 23, 2023 No Responses

Greenland records highest temperatures in a millennium

Greenland, the world’s largest island, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, is facing the hottest temperatures in at least the last 1,000 years. A new ice core study showed that rising temperatures are caused by global warming. Ice cores...
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Wallace Smith Broecker, The Scientist Who Introduced “Global Warming” Has Died
March 4, 2019 No Responses

Wallace Smith Broecker, The Scientist Who Introduced “Global Warming” Has Died

The US geochemist who helped popularize the term “global warming” has died last month in New York at the age of 87 Wallace Smith Broecker initiated key research into the history of the Earth’s climate and humans’ influence upon it...
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What is global warming and what are its long term effects?
January 30, 2019 No Responses

What is global warming and what are its long term effects?

Ever since 1906, the global average surface temperature has increased by more than 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit (0.9 degrees Celsius) and even more in sensitive polar regions and the effects of global warming are appearing right now. The heat is melting...
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NASA Tool Can Tell Which Glacier May Flood Your City
November 17, 2017 No Responses

NASA Tool Can Tell Which Glacier May Flood Your City

Because of climate change, sea level rise is one of the biggest consequences that we have to face, which is why NASA developed a tool that will forecast possible disaster By mapping the glaciers and ice sheets that are contributing...
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Pollution Killed 9 Million People Worldwide in 2015
October 20, 2017 No Responses

Pollution Killed 9 Million People Worldwide in 2015

In 2015, almost one in six deaths was related to pollution in one of its forms – air, water, soil, chemical or occupational, according to a new report published in The Lancet By far, air pollution is the largest contributor...
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