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It's Official: 2014 Hottest Year Ever Recorded
2015-01-11 00:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Yea, so 2014's December may have been bone-chillingly cold for some parts of the world. But when measurements from every corner of the Earth from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31 were finally combined and averaged, it was revealed that this past year was easily the hottest ever recorded. That's at least according to Japan's Meteorological Agency, one of the four primary record-keeping organizations that routinely measure, gather, and asses net temperature data from across the globe. This data includes both terrestrial...
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Summer 2014 Saw Warmest Ocean Temperatures Ever Recorded
2014-11-14 22:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Summer 2014 saw the warmest ocean temperatures ever recorded, according to a new report, proving that global warming is not slowing down. But many people, including scientists, did think at one point that global warming had indeed taken a break. Greenhouse gas levels may have increased drastically in recent years, hitting a record high in 2013, but overall global tempratures have actually barely risen in the last 16 years, according to a recent study published in the journal Nature Geoscience...
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Throng of 35,000 walruses is largest ever recorded on land, sign of warming arctic
2014-10-02 00:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: A mass of thousands of walruses were spotted hauled up on land in northwest Alaska during NOAA aerial surveys earlier this week. An estimated 35,000 occupied a single beach a record number illustrating a trend in an unnatural behavior scientists say is due to global warming. Walruses (Odobenus rosmarus)iconic arctic mammals that are only distantly related to sealstraditionally use sea ice to rest, breed, and give birth, and as a vantage from which to spot mollusks and other food sources. However,...
Antarctica & Greenland Losing Ice at Fastest Rate Ever Recorded
2014-08-21 18:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment 360: Ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are losing mass at an unprecedented rate of 500 cubic kilometers per year enough ice to cover the Chicago metropolitan area with a layer of ice 600 meters thick according to German researchers. Using data from the European Space Agency's CryoSat 2 satellite from 2011 to 2014, the team created the most detailed maps to date of ice elevations across Antarctica and Greenland, accurate to a few meters in height. The results reveal that Greenland alone is losing...
California Experiencing Most Severe Drought Ever Recorded
2014-08-01 17:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: One of the worst North American droughts in history could be getting a whole lot worse. According to the latest U.S. Drought Monitor Map released on Tuesday, more than 58 percent of California is in an exceptional drought stage. Thats up a staggering 22 percent from last weeks report. And, in its latest drought report released earlier today, the National Drought Mitigation Center warned that bone-dry conditions are overtaking much of the Golden State, and noted that, overall, California is...
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