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Glacier melt has accelerated since 2000, study finds 1 minute read Paris, Apr 28 (EFE).- The world’s glaciers are melting at a record pace due to global warming and the Earth has lost an average of 267 billion tons of ice a year since 2000, according to a study appearing in Nature magazine. The annual rate of ice loss increased from 227 billion tons in 2000-2004 to 298 billion during the 2015-2019 period, an international team led by scientists from the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) Laboratory for the Study of Space Geophysics and Oceanography found. The conclusio...

Courtesy of Close Authorship Trekking out to my research sites near North Carolina’s Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, I slog through knee-deep water on a section of trail that is completely submerged. Permanent flooding has become commonplace on this low-lying peninsula, nestled behind North Carolina’s Outer Banks. The trees growing in the water are small and stunted. Many are dead. Throughout coastal North Carolina, evidence of forest die-off is everywhere. Nearly every roadside ditch I pass while driving around the region is lined with dead or dying trees. As an ecologist study...

Sea Level Rise Is Creating Ghost Forests That are Visible From Space Sunday April 25, 2021 Ghost forest panorama in coastal North Carolina. Photo: Emily Ury, CC BY-ND Trekking out to my research sites near North Carolina’s Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, I slog through knee-deep water on a section of trail that is completely submerged. Permanent flooding has become commonplace on this low-lying peninsula, nestled behind North Carolina’s Outer Banks. The trees growing in the water are small and stunted. Many are dead. Throughout coastal North Carolina, evidence of fores...

Credit: Ocean Biology Processing Group, NASA/GSFC It is February 1994 and I am on the research vessel R/V Moana Wave off the coast of Lanai, Hawaii, with the team of the Marine Optical BuoY (MOBY) project. The water is incredibly blue, and I can’t help but be awestruck by the enormous energy, momentum, power and depth of the ocean as I watch the currents and the wind create what appear to be rising and falling pyramids of solid substance, no longer a liquid but a mighty living thing. It is against this backdrop that we work to deploy devices designed to determine the optical pro...

April 15, 2021 Sea level rise is killing trees along the U.S. east coast, creating ‘ghost forests’ that are visible from space. Ghost forest panorama in coastal North Carolina. Image via Emily Ury/ The Conversation Trekking out to my research sites near North Carolina’s Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, I slog through knee-deep water on a section of trail that is completely submerged. Permanent flooding has become commonplace on this low-lying peninsula, nestled behind North Carolina’s Outer Banks. The trees growing in the water are small and stunted. Many are dead. Througho...