Environment

Warming ocean causing glacial grounding line retreat comparable to last ice age

Glaciers, 4 times the size of Manhattan is being lost to sea, pushing back grounding lines by 300 to 400 meters every year.

Apr 3, 2018

Climate change: Ganges might swell to twice its capacity, flooding northern India

Global warming will eventually lead to food shortages caused by floods and droughts. Ganges could run at twice its capacity, flooding India along the way.

Apr 2, 2018

Climate change: Early humans survived abrupt, harsh cooling 11,000 years ago

The end of the last ice age brought about an extended winter that lasted over a century, but the Mesolithic people thrived in spite of this.

Mar 28, 2018

Arctic sea ice reaches wintertime maximum, among lowest on record: NASA

Northern sea ice is at its second-lowest maximum winter freeze levels, thanks to global warming-induced climate change.

Mar 25, 2018

Watch: Deep-sea anglerfish caught mating in first ever video

Anglerfish mate via sexual parasitism, where the male latches on to the female, deriving nutrition from the female's body and the female gains a steady supply of sperm.

Mar 23, 2018

Scientists express alarm over giant plastic patch in Pacific Ocean

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which lies halfway between California and Hawaii, is comprised of around 80 million kg of litter, 99% of which is made up of plastic.

Mar 23, 2018

United Nations: Last three years were hottest on record

A report by the U.N.s World Meteorological Organization says the last three years have been the hottest on record, and man-made global warming will continue to cause extreme weather events.

Mar 23, 2018

Indonesian volcano spews toxic gas: Hundreds evacuated, 30 hospitalized

The sulphuric gases from Mount Ijen's crater caused vomiting and breathing troubles among the residents of the nearby Kalianyar village.

Mar 22, 2018

SoFi, created by MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory to explore marine environments, swims at Rainbow Reef off Taveuni, Fiji.

MIT creates SoFi: Robo-fish can dive 50ft deep, swim unnoticed

SoFi can handle oncoming currents and also take high-resolution photos using a fisheye lens while swimming, thus proving beneficial for marine researchers.

Mar 22, 2018

Plastic in world's oceans predicted to triple by 2025

Over 70 percent of all litter that ends up in oceans is plastic, which does not decompose naturally and instead breaks down into ever smaller pieces.

Mar 22, 2018

Rare underwater video captures minke whale: Lesser known facts about the creature

This rare video was shot by Regina Eisert during a recent Antarctic expedition where she was trying out an underwater-camera prototype.

Mar 22, 2018

A view of a hot spring at the Upper Geyser Basin at Yellowstone National Park.

Underwater 'fountain' of magma discovered beneath Yellowstone heightens fears of massive eruption

In theory, magma plumes are geological features that exist in the boundary between Earth's core and the mantle and can rise through the mantle into the crust.

Mar 22, 2018

McDonald's targets beef production in ambitious effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions

The US-based fast food restaurant chain plans to cut down its greenhouse gas emissions by 36 percent by the year 2030.

Mar 22, 2018

Glacial melting crosses point of no return - it cannot be stopped anymore

'Greenhouse gas emissions have already triggered changes that can no longer be stopped,' say climate scientists.

Mar 22, 2018

World water crisis in numbers

2.1 billion people lack access to clean and safe water worldwide, and with the global population projected to reach 9.7 billion by 2050, water scarcity will continue to be a major issue for generations to come.

Mar 21, 2018

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Environment

Warming ocean causing glacial grounding line retreat comparable to last ice age

Climate change: Ganges might swell to twice its capacity, flooding northern India

Climate change: Early humans survived abrupt, harsh cooling 11,000 years ago

Arctic sea ice reaches wintertime maximum, among lowest on record: NASA

Watch: Deep-sea anglerfish caught mating in first ever video

Scientists express alarm over giant plastic patch in Pacific Ocean

United Nations: Last three years were hottest on record

Indonesian volcano spews toxic gas: Hundreds evacuated, 30 hospitalized

MIT creates SoFi: Robo-fish can dive 50ft deep, swim unnoticed

Plastic in world's oceans predicted to triple by 2025

Rare underwater video captures minke whale: Lesser known facts about the creature

Underwater 'fountain' of magma discovered beneath Yellowstone heightens fears of massive eruption

McDonald's targets beef production in ambitious effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions

Glacial melting crosses point of no return - it cannot be stopped anymore

World water crisis in numbers

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