Friday is Earth Day, the day when our climate anxiety peaks and we look about in disbelief at what we’ve done to the earth. As a result, Google is commemorating the day with a visual reminder of our inadequacies, releasing a gloomy Earth Day Google Doodle that depicts the devastating effects of climate change. The … Read more
Researchers revealed Tuesday that sea ice around Antarctica shrunk to its smallest area on record in February, five years after the previous record low, implying that Earth’s frozen continent may be less resistant to climate change than previously assumed. According to a study published in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, the ice-covered ocean … Read more
BEIJING — A real-time glacier monitoring system has been officially put into use on a glacier in the Yulong Snow Mountain in southwest China’s Yunnan Province, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The system, jointly developed by the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources of the CAS and the Wuhan University Chinese Antarctic … Read more
