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Any Way You Look at It, This Government Report on Climate Change Is Really Bad News
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the American Meteorological Society say that even if greenhouse gas emissions ended immediately the oceans would continue to warm for centuries.
Here's Why Alaska's Wildfires Are Really Bad News for Everyone
The state has already had its fifth worst wildfire season, and scientists worry about what impact the blazes are having on Alaska's carbon-rich permafrost.
The Number of Wildfires In Alaska Has Doubled Since the 1950s
The surface area burned each year has increased ten-fold since the mid-20th century, which releases vast amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Climate Change Might Be Causing These Huge Craters in Siberia
The Arctic is warming twice as fast as other regions and some scientists fear that melting permafrost is causing methane deposits to explode, creating enormous craters.
Our Brutal Winter Is a Beach Vacation Compared to an Arctic 'Icepocalypse'
A new study examines the winter warm streak that locked several Arctic towns in ice for months.
Scientists Brought a 30,000-Year-Old Virus Back to Life — On Purpose
A virus buried for centuries under Siberian permafrost has been brought back to life. Could global warming cause our next pandemic?
The Methane Released from the Melting Arctic Could Have a $60 Trillion Price Tag
One big burp of methane could speed up warming by 30 years.
Climate Change Will Knock Your House Over
Take heed, denizens of the north—global warming might knock your house over. So, the climate is changing, and we're pretty familiar with much of the early fallout: more frequent and more hellish heat waves, drier, longer droughts, dust bowls part deux...
Melting Permafrost Is Making Global Warming Happen Even Faster
Frozen in Arctic and northern soils are trapped some 1,700 billion gigatons of organic carbon, more than four times the amount of carbon ever released by human activity. In a stable global ecosystem, much of it might just stay there, getting pushed...