A beloved polar bear at a Canada zoo died suddenly by drowning this week. According to the Calgary Zoo in Calgary, Alberta, Baffin, a 7-year-old male polar bear, died by drowning following a crushing injury to his trachea by Siku, an 8-year-old male polar bear. The two were engaging in "rough play," which the zoo said was typical of the pair, and it is presumed that Baffin lost consciousness underwater due to the tracheal injury and drowned. Baffin was in excellent physical health, a necropsy completed by an independent wildlife pathologist confirmed, and there was no evidence of heat-related stress. After Baffin's accident, the zoo said Siku is being closely monitored by the Animal Care, Health & Welfare team. Zoo deaths: Winston, iconic gorilla among the oldest in the world, dies at San...
Humans used the now-destroyed rockshelter throughout the last ice age until just a few decades ago.
The arctic tern’s nesting (Sterna paradisaea) at Seltjarnanes has gone beyond expectations and no minks attacked the nests.
Emergency services were called to the Clarence River at Lawrence and were told a truck was attempting to board a vehicle ferry before it entered the water. Follow the day’s news live Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Q: Why target the individuals when it’s state policy? Penny Wong said the Australian government has been “clear in terms of state-to-state relations about our view on settlements”. They are unlawful under international law. We’ve been clear about that … We have also said that we want to continue to take steps towards a two-state solution. That may not be the view of some people in the Israeli government, but that is the view of the Australian government. These individuals have been involved in violent attacks on Palestinians...
Baffin the polar bear was seven-years-old when his trachea was crushed while roughhousing with one of his penmates.
Glacial ice contains valuable data about climates past. These researchers are working to preserve those records for the future.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 129, Issue 7, July 2024.
Global average temperatures have already hit or exceeded a key climate threshold for 12 months.
Which? study found increase of 38% for one brand, while cheaper options often scored better in taste tests The price of popular ice-creams and lollies including Cornetto and Solero have soared by more than 30% over the past two years amid the rising cost of ingredients and energy. Analysts at the consumer group Which? have suggested switching to supermarket own-label options that are cheaper and – their study suggests – often tastier. Continue reading...
MOSCOW - The Kremlin on Tuesday said that Russia's cooperation with China in the Arctic was not aimed against any other country and said U.S. criticism of such work was misplaced.
The results of a necropsy are expected to be announced today after the death of a polar bear at Calgary's zoo.
WASHINGTON - Russia and China are increasingly cooperating in the Arctic region, which could impact regional stability, the U.S. military said as it released its strategy for the Arctic region on Monday.
In Canada, melting sea ice is forcing polar bears closer and closer to human populations, so scientists there are working on a program to track polar bears, tag them with GPS units and monitor their movement.
Terawulf utilizes 95% zero-carbon energy sources, and while it continues to focus on Bitcoin mining, it also believes diversifying revenue can help miners navigate the highly competitive environment triggered by the halving.
Russia said Sunday it scrambled fighter jets to intercept two U.S. military long-range bomber aircraft that approached the Russian border over the Barents Sea in the Arctic.
The Wild Canada zone at the Calgary Zoo was closed Friday after one of the zoo's two polar bears, Baffin, did not resurface from the pool and died.
“If activist groups can make the U.S. permitting process for carbon capture and storage projects unworkable, these projects will be pursued in other countries with much, much lower environmental standards than we take for granted in this country.”
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 129, Issue 14, 28 July 2024.
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The climate crisis is causing the length of each day to get longer, analysis shows, as the mass melting of polar ice reshapes the planet. The phenomenon is a striking demonstration of how humanity’s actions are transforming the Earth, scientists said, rivalling […]
Amanda Wylie was hiking on a trail at Glacier National Park on the Fourth of July when she came face-to-face with a grizzly bear twice her size.
July is the warmest month in the Arctic and hence also the month of peak sea ice loss. As of the middle of July 2024, extent is declining at an above average pace. Sea is mostly gone in Hudson Bay, … Continue reading →
Dr. Ella Gilbert is a climate scientist and presenter with a PhD in Antarctic climate change, working at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) . Her background is in atmospheric sciences and she's especially interested in the physical mechanisms of climate change, clouds, and almost anything polar. She is passionate about communicating climate science to non-specialist audiences and using film and TV to do it. After all, climate change affects everyone, so everyone should be able to understand it. To help with that, she publishes videos about climate science, Antarctica, weather and anything climate related on her Youtube channel called Dr Gilbz . Here is a sample of her videos to "showcase" her work, each with a description based on what Ella provided on Youtube for it. Climate...
Parts of Australia are finally turning white as a polar blast brings icy temperatures, snow and even heavy rain across the country's eastern states.
None of the nine people on board the K2 Aviation plane were injured in Friday's Tokositna Glacier landing, with helicopters flying them to Talkeetna.
This week (Friday 19 July) the UK’s polar research vessel the RRS Sir David Attenborough makes its first science expedition to the Arctic. A team will work in south-east Greenland … The post Greenland science expedition aims to unveil critical climate insights appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
The action would allow countries to buy and sell carbon credits from each other, as well as companies, to help meet their climate goals.
After being absent from consumer store shelves for nearly two years, Polar Eggs are back on store shelves. The locally-produced egg brand was purchased in January by new owners.
Arctic adventurer Pen Hadow stood on top of the world, a solitary, exhausted figure with a bright red tent flapping in a frozen white world.
Multiple people have been taken to hospital after suffering from a carbon monoxide exposure near a parking garage.
Pennsylvania lawmakers have approving legislation aimed at helping the nation’s No. 2 natural gas-producing state attract carbon capture projects and enable federally-funded hydrogen hubs
The government will implement a CCUS policy, designating the power ministry as the nodal agency. CCUS captures CO2 from sources like power plants for industries, aiding India's 2070 net-zero goal. The PM-STIAC meeting, chaired by Ajay Kumar Sood, discussed the carbon market. Sood emphasized nationwide adoption through a mission-mode approach; participants discussed life-cycle assessment and standards for decarbonisation.
WASHINGTON - The U.S., Canada and Finland will form a consortium to build icebreaker ships, a senior U.S. administration official said, a move intended to bolster the allies' shipbuilding and counter Russia and China in increasingly strategic polar regions.
Thick sea ice is flowing into the Northwest Passage, complicating predictions that melting ice due to climate change will open a shorter route between oceans
Projected high of 10.3bn people is lower and will come earlier than expected, analysis suggests The global population is likely to peak earlier than expected and at a lower level, according to new UN projections that officials have said offer hope of reduced pressure on the environment. The analysis predicts there will be about 10.3 billion people by the mid-2080s, up from 8.2 billion this year. Continue reading...
Open access notables Antarctic Bottom Water Warming, Freshening, and Contraction in the Eastern Bellingshausen Basin , Johnson et al., Geophysical Research Letters Cold winds blowing over polynyas (areas of ice-free water) on the Antarctic continental shelf create sea ice, forming very cold and somewhat salty, hence very dense, waters. These dense shelf waters descend the continental slope to the abyss, mixing with adjacent waters to form Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW). AABW spreads northward from there, filling much of the global abyssal ocean as it mixes with warmer, lighter waters above. AABW has been warming on pressure surfaces, freshening and cooling on density surfaces, and reducing in volume (contracting). These changes are likely a result of melting Antarctic...
Satellite analysis looked at credits sold by Finite Carbon, which runs some of North America’s largest offset projects This story is co-published with SourceMaterial and Floodlight Some forest carbon offsets sold by the biggest offsetting company in the US offer little or no benefit to the climate, a satellite analysis has found. Continue reading...
The Canadian government has purchased a strategically located aircraft hangar in Inuvik, N.W.T., for $8.6 million — a move that's being met with relief by northerners and experts on Arctic security who were alarmed by foreign interest in the facility.
Colombia's Constitutional Court on Wednesday annulled a controversial carbon credit deal in the Amazon rainforest, which six local tribes said had been signed without their consent.
William Stampfl was trying to climb Mount Huascarán in 2002 with two friends, one who was found and one who is still missing Police have found the well-preserved body of an American mountaineer who was buried by an avalanche 22 years ago as he tried to climb one of the highest peaks in the Andes. Police in the Ancash region found the body of William Stampfl on Friday near a camp 5,200 meters (17,060 feet) above sea level. The 58-year-old Stampfl had been trying to climb the 6,768-meter Mount Huascarán. Continue reading...
Two separate drownings occurred at Glacier National Park in Montana over the weekend, two weeks after a woman was swept over a waterfall.
Irish farmers have been burning carbon-rich peat to heat their rural homes for generations, but the practice has come under fire.
A listing of 31 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, June 30, 2024 thru Sat, July 6, 2024. Story of the week Our Story of the Week is brought to us by Dr. Ella Gilbert , a researcher with the British Antarctic Survey . As Gilbert mentions in her bio, she's passionate about " making climate science accessible to non-scientists." Dr. Gilbert backs that ambition with action, presenting as "Dr. Gilbz" on YouTube. In her newest production , Gilbert walks us through three very recent scientific publications that amplify worry over the fate of Antarctic ice sheets and hence the fate of coastal cities all over the globe: Widespread seawater intrusions beneath the grounded ice of Thwaites Glacier, West...
Freezing climates introduce many unique risks to the battlefield. Here is how the U.S. Army equips and trains its soldiers for arctic conditions.
In recent years global warming has left its mark on the Antarctic ice sheets. The "eternal" ice in Antarctica is melting faster than previously assumed, particularly in West Antarctica more than East Antarctica. The root for this could lie in its formation, as an international research team led by the Alfred Wegener Institute has now discovered: sediment samples from drill cores combined with complex climate and ice-sheet modelling show that permanent glaciation of Antarctica began around 34 million years ago – but did not encompass the entire continent as previously assumed, but rather was confined to the eastern region of the continent (East Antarctica). It was not until at least 7 million years later that ice was able to advance towards West Antarctic coasts. The results of the new study...
A woman has made history by becoming China’s first female to brave the inhospitable waters of the Arctic as a crab fisher.
The Jurupa Oak is older than almost any other plant on Earth. Environmentalists and locals worry that the ancient tree is under threat from a force in modern California: development.
The Arctic sea ice cover in June 2024 retreated at a below average pace, leading to a larger total sea ice extent for the month than in recent years. Many areas of open water have developed along the Arctic Ocean coast. … Continue reading →
A trove of animal bone fragments from a cave on the Tibetan plateau reveals how Denisovans thrived in a harsh climate for over 100,000 years.
Only four of the Alaskan ice field glaciers melted out of existence between 1948 and 2005. But 64 disappeared between 2005 and 2019, the study said.
Hit show’s British host Graham Hancock has been criticized for promoting fringe beliefs about advanced lost civilization Controversial British writer Graham Hancock has abandoned plans to film a new season of his hit Netflix show Ancient Apocalypse in the US following an outcry from Indigenous groups over his depiction of their history and culture. Hancock is a former journalist who has been criticized by experts for his promotion of fringe beliefs in the show which presents theories about an advanced lost civilization active during the last ice age. Continue reading...
A former Washington state employee says he was pushed out because he predicted the state’s carbon market could raise the cost of gasoline.
Two new papers find threats that climate models haven't accounted for, including a tipping point under the ice.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 129, Issue 13, 16 July 2024.
Climate scientists from University of Cambridge and the British Antarctic Survey will be at the 2024 Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition, showcasing how they are using Antarctic ice cores to unlock … The post Listen to ancient air escaping from polar ice cores at Royal Society appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
A November ballot measure to abolish the state's second-in-the-nation carbon market is driving investors away and prices down.
What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic, and a new NASA mission is helping improve data modeling and increasing our understanding of Earth’s rapidly changing climate. Changing ice, ocean, and atmospheric conditions in the northernmost part of Earth have a large impact on the entire planet. That’s because the Arctic region acts […]
Baffin, a seven-year-old polar bear has tragically died after he drowned due to an injury suffered while playfully fighting with his adoptive brother, Siku at Calgary zoo.
Researchers say 650 tonnes on order for Paris Games is a potential stress on local and regional resources From cold-water swimming to ice baths, deliberately freezing yourself has been hailed as a panacea for everything from menopause symptoms to arthritis, headaches and immunity conditions. And for sportspeople, ice is widely used to aid recovery after exercise. But now researchers have said the clinical benefits of ice therapy are not evidence-based and its popularity is bad for the environment. Continue reading...
The Pentagon has released an updated Arctic strategy that warns of low-level Russian 'destabilizing' activities in the Far North aimed at the United States, Canada and its allies.
MOSCOW - Russia on Wednesday accused Washington of stoking tensions in the Arctic and dismissed assertions from the U.S. military that increasing cooperation between Russia and China in the area could impact regional stability.
The global average temperature broke a record set in 2023, partly driven by heat in Antarctica.
A six-month investigation reveals that many carbon credit ventures reap profits from public lands they have no right to and fail to share revenue with those protecting the forest.
Defense Department leaders have, for more than the past decade, warned that the U.S. needs to step up its activities in the warming Arctic.
Preliminary data from Copernicus shows that the global average temperature Sunday was 17.09 C, beating the record set just last year on July 6, 2023 by 0.01 C. Both Sunday's mark and last year's record obliterate the previous record of 16.8 C, which itself was only a few years old, set in 2016.
French President Emmanuel Macron's office said on Tuesday that he was pressing Danish authorities not to extradite anti-whaling activist and Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson to Japan after his arrest in Greenland on Sunday under an international arrest warrant issued by Japan. He faces charges on interfering with a Japanese whaling ship in the Antarctic Ocean in 2010.
U.S. defense officials said that, besides military cooperation, China serves as a major funder of Russian energy exploration in the Arctic region.
Russia and China are increasingly cooperating in the Arctic, which could impact regional stability, the US military said as it released its strategy for the region on Monday.
Ryan Cooper and his team were descending the Huascaran peak in the Andes mountains after an unsuccessful summit push in June when they noticed an anomaly in the glacier landscape.
According to the zoo, the incident occurred when two polar bears were seen sparring – which is described as normal behaviour by the zoo – before Baffin went under the water.
The Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources said all operations and management systems of petroleum sector companies and oil and gas facilities are operating efficiently and stably, in light of Microsoft’s announcing announcing a major technical outage that has swept the world. The post Petroleum Ministry: Petroleum sector’s companies not affected by global cyber outage appeared first on Egypt Independent.
Open access notables Improving global temperature datasets to better account for non-uniform warming , Calvert, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society: To better account for spatial non-uniform trends in warming, a new GITD [global instrumental temperature dataset] was created that used maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) to combine the land surface air temperature (LSAT) anomalies of non-infilled HadCRUT5 with the sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies of HadSST4. This GITD better accounts for non-uniform trends in warming in two ways. Firstly, the underlying warming trends in the model are allowed to vary spatially and by the time of year. Secondly, climatological differences between open-sea and sea ice regions are used to better account...
The pilot program could be one of the biggest carbon removal efforts in the U.S., if it works.
Scientists have for the first time taken in-situ ocean measurements during the collapse of a giant iceberg in the sub-Antarctic. These new observations reveal how ocean ecosystems may be affected … The post Mega-iceberg melt affects important marine ecosystem appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
Fears about the two species coming into contact are growing as Arctic sea ice melts.
The Scottish brewery, said to be worth £2billion, says it will 'wind down' its claim to be carbon negative - meaning it was producing less carbon emissions than it was offsetting.
Justice Minister Bronwyn Eyre claims the province has succeeded in stopping the feds from taking money from the province after it refused to collect some of the carbon pricing.
As polar ice melts, water moves from the poles toward the equator — making our Earth bulkier and rotate slower.
The Canada Carbon Rebate returns 90 per cent of the revenue collected by Ottawa from the consumer carbon levy to households in the eight provinces where it is paid.
More research is needed on the impact of ships on Arctic whales, researchers have said
Scientific assessments reveal that the Third Pole (TP), encompassing the vast glaciated mountain systems of Asia, is warming at an alarming rate of over 0.3 ºC per decade, surpassing the global average. The TP hosts the largest ice mass outside the polar region, spanning the Tibetan plateau and surrounding ranges: Pamir-Hindu Kush, Hengduan, Tienshan, Qilian, […]
As glaciers melt around the globe, scientists are racing to retrieve ice cores that contain key historical records of temperature and climate that are preserved in the ice.
Climate change is melting glaciers and exposing the corpses of long-lost climbers on mountain peaks in Nepal, Switzerland and Peru.
Call to study glacial geoengineering stirs up “civil war” among polar scientists
SET-listed Thaicom has unveiled "CarbonWatch", Asean's first carbon credit platform powered by satellite and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.
Freezing air from Antarctica will create a frosty weekend across Australia and the icy air is expected to linger into next week.
Trilateral agreement announced at the Nato summit will see collaboration on the building of polar icebreakers.
The project will involve building carbon capture and sequestration infrastructure on steam-assisted gravity drainage oilsands facilities across Saskatchewan and Alberta.
Partnership could produce up to 90 icebreaker ships to counter Russian and Chinese inroads into region Freezing cold war: militaries move in as Arctic ice retreats – photo essay Canada, the United States and Finland say a newly announced “Ice Pact” to build a fleet of polar icebreaker ships will challenge China’s control of the market as nations scramble for influence in the Arctic. The deal, announced during the Nato summit in Washington, could see as many as 90 icebreaker ships produced by the three countries in the coming years. Continue reading...
Project challenges assumption carbon fibre cannot be used underwater, potentially giving China an edge in the drone arms race in South China Sea and Taiwan Strait.
Melting sea ice in the fast-warming Arctic Ocean is not making it easier for sailors to navigate a legendary shortcut between Europe and Asia despite popular belief, scientists said Thursday.
OTTAWA - Canada, looking to shore up its defense of the Arctic, is moving ahead to acquire up to 12 submarines and has started a formal process to meet with manufacturers, the defense ministry said on Wednesday.
Freezing cold air from Antarctica will see Aussies shiver through a frosty weekend with a polar blast to bring icy winds and frigid temperatures.
Construction teams have completed significant stages of the British Antarctic Survey’s (BAS) Antarctic Infrastructure Modernisation Programme and joined the over-wintering staff for the first time as the 2023/24 summer season ended. The improvements, led by BAM and technical advisors Ramboll will transform future science and operations at Rothera, the UK’s largest polar research station in Antarctica. The post Modernisation milestones achieved in Antarctica appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
[The Conversation Africa] In March 2002, the Larsen B Ice Shelf collapsed catastrophically, breaking up an area about one-sixth the size of Tasmania.
Seen for the first time from the ground, the polar rain aurora produced an eerie green glow captured on camera in Norway.
Despite its resilience, the Jurupa Oak is now in danger of going the way of the dodo, due to devastating wildfires and a 900-acre development now being considered.
Huge boring machine to cut under kilometres of glacier for north-south link in vast Xinjiang region providing vital connection to Central Asia.
A search has been launched for a hiker in the Skálafellsjökull glacier in Vatnajökull. A helicopter of the Icelandic Coast Guard has been activated.
For the first time, researchers, including from British Antarctic Survey, have combined unique geological samples with sophisticated modelling to provide surprising insights into when and where today’s East and West … The post The dawn of the Antarctic ice sheets appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
WELLINGTON - Antarctica New Zealand has come up with a new, smaller proposal for the redevelopment of the country's base in Antarctica, the government institute said on Thursday, after a previous plan was paused due to a budget blow out.
On June 17, the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) was represented by our expert witnesses at a technical conference before the NC Utilities Commission (NCUC). Each of the intervenors in the Carbon Plan/Integrated Resource Plan docket, including EDF, were given a few minutes to briefly summarize testimony filed in May. EDF’s testimony centered around the need […] The post North Carolina Carbon Plan: Duke’s hydrogen plan is a mirage, but there are proven clean technologies available now to meet customer need appeared first on Climate 411 .
Voters will decide in November whether to keep the program, one of only two economywide carbon markets in the United States.
The speed of decline in the Juneau Ice Field, an expanse of 1,050 interconnected glaciers, has doubled in recent decades, scientists discovered.
As glaciers around the world disappear, we must remember they are more than just ice.
Glen Canyon dam is slowly losing capacity as sediment collects in its basin.
The decision blocks the proposed 211-mile gravel road that would have cut through the Brooks Range and the Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve.
Holidaying with friends helped the writer overcome her fear of trekking on slopes.
Metro greenlights plans to start its own police agency, after years of frustration with the LAPD, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and Long Beach police. Critics said costs were skyrocketing and that they had no control over deployment or police policies.
Wildfires above the Arctic Circle in June have unleashed carbon emissions that are the third highest for the time of year in two decades of monitoring, European scientists said on Thursday.
Canada's Record-breaking 2023 Wildfires Released Nearly 4 Times More Carbon than Global Aviation shannon.paton@… Thu, 06/27/2024 - 08:52 Canada’s 2023 wildfires made international headlines, causing billions of dollars in property damage, displacing thousands of people from their homes, and spewing air pollution that traveled as far as Europe and China. A new analysis shows that the wildfires also had a massive effect on greenhouse gas emissions. Researchers from WRI’s Global Forest Watch initiative and the University of Maryland find that wildfires burned roughly 7.8 million hectares of forests in Canada in 2023 — more than 6 times the annual average since 2001. This amount of tree cover loss produced roughly 3 billion tons of carbon dioxide — nearly 4 times...
The woolly rhinoceros faced extinction about 10,000 years ago, after the last Ice Age. New research shows that shrinking habitats played a central role in the species' demise.