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Arctic storms speed up release of methane plumes

2013-11-27 19:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New Scientist: THE ocean is being stirred up like a fizzy drink. A stormier Arctic could fast-track methane gas into the atmosphere, potentially accelerating global warming. Working off the east Siberian coast, Natalia Shakhova of the University of Alaska in Fairbanks and colleagues drilled into the bed of the Laptev Sea a hotspot of methane emissions and used sonar to analyse gas bubbles in the water. They found the permafrost that usually sat beneath the seabed had thawed, allowing 500 kilograms of methane...

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Philippines Plans Mangrove Forest to Protect Coasts Storms

2013-11-27 16:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Wall Street Journal: The Philippines has firmed up plans to develop a mangrove forest along the eastern seaboard of two islands hit hardest by Typhoon Haiyan to act as a first-line of defense again the impact of future storms. Haiyan is one of the strongest storms ever to make landfall, and the deadliest to hit the Philippines in modern history. It's gale-force winds whipped up a wall of water that rose to more than 15-feet, wiping out whole villages and cities, displacing millions of people and claiming the lives...

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Airlines prepare for holiday storms

2013-11-25 16:13:55| Airlines - Topix.net

"These individuals are measuring the impact of weather, the Air Traffic Control system, and coordinating not only within United but with the FAA," "Let's go to Jacksonville and their concern first.

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Arctic storms speed up release of methane plumes

2013-11-24 19:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New Scientist: A stormier Arctic could fast-track the greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, potentially accelerating global warming. "Significant quantities of methane are escaping the East Siberian Shelf as a result of the degradation of submarine permafrost," says Natalia Shakhova of the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. She and her team collected data -- at a great cost -- to show that vast areas are releasing plumes of methane gas, which is escaping into the atmosphere. In August 2010, 11 sailors aboard...

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