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Thursday, May 20, 2021, 11:16 GMT+7 A view of the newly calved iceberg designated A-76 by scientists, the largest currently afloat in the world according to the European Space Agency (ESA), and captured by the ESAs Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission is seen in this handout photo obtained by Reuters on May 20, 2021. Photo: ESA/Copernicus Sentinel-1 Mission, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO/Handout via Reuters A giant slab of ice bigger than the Spanish island of Majorca has sheared off from the frozen edge of Antarc...

Western drought worsens and winds pick up, fueling wildfire concerns for millions to end the week CNN 3 hrs ago © Justin Sullivan/Getty Images El Dorado Hills, California, in May. Wildfires remain a growing concern with over 4 million people under red flag warnings, as drought conditions across the western US continue to worsen. There have already been 13 red flag warnings issued in California so far this year, the most year-to-date since 2014 when more than 40 were issued by this time of...

Worlds biggest iceberg breaks off from Antarctica A giant slab of ice big enough to cover three-quarters of Prince Edward Island has sheared off from the frozen edge of Antarctica into the Weddell Sea, becoming the largest iceberg afloat in the world, the European Space Agency said on Wednesday. Social Sharing CBC News · comments A giant slab of ice has sheared off from the frozen edge of Antarctica into the Weddell Sea, becoming the largest iceberg afloat in the world, the European Space A...

  “There is something about the Himalayas not possessed by the Alps, something unseen and unknown,” said mountaineer and botanist Frank Smythe…” a mystery intriguing and disturbing. Confronted by them, a man loses his grasp of ordinary things, perceiving himself as immortal, an entity capable of outdistancing all changes, all decay, all life, all death.” Acknowledging the blind hubris of our Anthropocene epoch , NASA is keeping a space-based eye on the Himalayas, Karakoram, Hindu Kus...

Credit: NSIDC courtesy NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory Physical Sciences Division Figure 2d. This plot shows the departure from average air temperature in the Arctic at the 925 hPa level, in degrees Celsius, for April 2021. Yellows and reds indicate higher than average temperatures; blues and purples indicate lower than average temperatures. Credit: NSIDC courtesy NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory Physical Sciences Division Sea ice extent remained below the tenth percentile range thr...

Losing Mountain Glaciers (Photo : Photo by Marvin Olson from Pixabay) According to a report published in the journal Nature, scientists estimated that the worlds 220,000 mountain glaciers have been losing more than 328 billion tons (298 billion metric tons) of ice and snow each year since 2015. Every year, enough melt flows into the worlds growing waters to submerge Switzerland by nearly 24 feet (7.2 meters). From 2015 to 2019, the annual melt rate was 78 billion tons (71 billion metric tons) h...

The global average temperature that month was 0.85 degrees Celsius (1.53°F) above the 20th-century average. Damage from an EF3 tornado that devastated portions of Calhoun County, Alabama, on March 25, 2021, killing five and injuring 10. Five separate U.S. severe weather outbreaks in March caused over $1 billion in insured damages, cumulatively. March also featured the first EF4 tornado of the year: a 170-mph twister that hit Georgia March 25-26. (Image credit: National Weather Service, Birming...

Warming oceans have forced tens of thousands of marine species to abandon their tropical homes along the equator and relocate to cooler waters, a new study reveals. Researchers, led by the University of Auckland, found a mass exodus of nearly 50,000 species including fish, mollusks, birds and corals that have moved poleward since 1955. In other words, scientists say, species that can move are moving to escape warming surface temperatures that currently average 68F (20C). The findings show that ...

As Arctic sea ice hits annual maximum, concern grows over polar ice loss: Studies by Gloria Dickie on 16 March 2021 Arctic sea ice reaches its annual maximum extent in March. But while ice extent is high this year, scientists are far more concerned by the drastic loss of sea ice volume, which continues its steady decline. A new study has documented drastic ice loss in both the north and south polar regions; scientists found that the single biggest reduction came from Arctic sea ice — the Ear...

Even as Texas and much of the central U.S. froze, many other regions of the world were warmer than average last month. A brilliant 22° halo and sundogs at sunrise in Goodland, Kansas on February 16, 2021, shortly after a minimum temperature of -11°F (30 degrees below normal) was recorded. (Image credit: National Weather Service Goodland) February 2021 was the 16th warmest February since global record keeping began in 1880, 0.65 degrees Celsius (1.17°F) above the 20th century average, NOAA’...