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Smithsonian July 2007 J. Madeleine Nash |
Chronicling the Ice Long before global warming became a cause celebre, Lonnie Thompson was extracting climate secrets from ancient glaciers. He finds the problem is even more profound than you might have thought.  |
IEEE Spectrum February 2005 William Sweet |
Victor Zagorodnov: Getting High on Glaciers How did a Russian who worked his way through an institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, earning degrees in electrical engineering and hydrology, end up working in Ohio for the world's leading research group in the field of tropical and subtropical glaciers?  |
Geotimes March 2006 Naomi Lubick |
Ice Hunter: Q&A With Lonnie Thompson An interview with glaciologist and Byrd Polar Research Center scientist Lonnie Thompson about what it mean to hunt ice and about some his current work.  |
Science News February 14, 2009 Lonnie Thompson |
Receding Glaciers Erase Records Of Climate History Ice masses on the tops of mountains -- sticking out in the free atmosphere -- have been collecting climate data and storing them, in many cases for very long periods.  |
Geotimes April 2007 Megan Sever |
Ancient Glaciers Melting Quickly Peru's Qori Kalis is one of the few remaining tropical glaciers, and it may be gone in five years, reported a glaciologist at Ohio State University. The melting of the Quelccaya Ice Cap poses new hazards to the people living in valleys below the peak.  |
Adventure August 2004 Lolly Merrell |
The Vanishing World of Lonnie Thompson A secret history of the world's climate, including global warming, is buried deep inside glaciers atop the world's tallest peaks. But as temperatures rise, those records are melting. One paleontologist/climatologist is racing to preserve a crucial piece of our past- in his freezer.  |
Smithsonian August 2005 Laura Helmuth |
Phenomena and Curiosities: Baked Alaska A unique study documents the disappearance of Alaska's glaciers, blamed on global warming.  |
Smithsonian October 2006 Anne Bolen |
Life in the Field - Frozen in Time Glaciers in the Pacific Northwest have recorded hundreds of years of climate history, helping researchers plot how quickly the planet is warming.  |
Geotimes October 2007 Moran & Backman |
The Arctic Ocean: So Much We Still Don't Know In 2004, the Arctic Coring Expedition team took three ships to the Arctic to drill a core near the Lomonosov Ridge. The team's results are teaching us more than we ever knew about the past 65 million years in the Arctic.  |
Geotimes August 2004 Naomi Lubick |
Doubling the Ice Record A team of European researchers released their first round of results from the longest ice core ever to be recovered from a polar glacier. Measurements show some interesting temperature shifts that may cause climatologists to reevaluate their models.  |
Geotimes August 2007 Carolyn Gramling |
No More "Snows of Kilimanjaro"? Mount Kilimanjaro's glaciers have receded dramatically, making the highest point in Africa a high-profile poster child for global warming. Some scientists contend, however, that Kilimanjaro is a poor example, as its glaciers were disappearing before warming set in.  |
Chemistry World September 27, 2007 Simon Hadlington |
Scientists Uncover How Last Ice Age Ended Scientists have shown that the end of the last age 19,000 years ago began in the higher latitudes of the southern hemisphere before sweeping into the tropics.  |
Geotimes November 2004 Naomi Lubick |
Past warming for the future As the Bush administration prepares for a second term, only time will tell how its climate change policy will change in the next four years. In the meantime, discussions of the science behind climate changes abound in the journals and within the scientific community.  |
Geotimes April 2007 Carolyn Gramling |
Wallace Broecker: Changes in the Atmosphere An interview with an expert on issues of climate change about his experiences advising politicians about the consequences of climate change and his hopes for new technologies of carbon sequestration.  |
Geotimes March 2006 Powell et al. |
Drilling Back to the Future Antarctica plays a fundamental role in sea-level change and ocean chemistry, and has the potential for important societal impacts over human timescales.  |
Geotimes November 2003 Sara Pratt |
Stuck between a rock and a cold place A stalagmite mined from an island cave in the Indian Ocean suggests that the ages currently assigned to the gold standard of ancient climate records -- the Greenland ice cores -- need revision for the period between 55,000 and 42,000 years ago.  |
Scientific American July 2008 Peter Brown |
NASA Satellites Watch Polar Ice Shelf Break into Crushed Ice Ice is melting at the poles much faster than climate models predict.  |
Geotimes March 2005 Naomi Lubick |
Paleo-Antarctic Puzzle Even though Antarctica was at the south pole around 35 million years ago, it was warm and relatively ice free. What exactly caused its shift to a deep freeze has long puzzled paleoclimatologists.  |
Geotimes December 2006 |
Top Climate News Stories of 2006 A new public face for climate change... Strong debate over storms... Thawing ice shifts water cycles... Methane climate menagerie... etc.  |
Geotimes October 2004 Naomi Lubick |
Extinction Realities Baffling Flash-Frozen Science A highly exaggerated storm surge floods New York City in "The Day After Tomorrow," a movie that while entertaining, bends several laws of physics in its dramatization of sudden climate change.  |
Popular Mechanics February 19, 2010 Trevor Williams |
On Thick Ice: Live From An Antarctic Drilling Trip The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program is exploring the ocean floor around Antarctica to learn how the ice sheet reacted in warmer climates of the past and how they might respond to future warming.  |
Chemistry World March 2006 Katie Gibb |
Extreme Analysis High pressures, cold temperatures and inaccessible samples all make analytical work challenging for chemists. Science still has a lot to gain from studying and working in extreme environments.  |
Geotimes April 2005 |
Geomedia Arctic Climate Change in Photos... Book review: Frozen Earth: The Once and Future Story of Ice Ages by Doug Macdougall... Mapping Sinkhole Risk in Maryland...  |
Geotimes December 2004 Sara Pratt |
Antarctic Ice Connections The West Antarctic ice sheet contains 3.2 million cubic kilometers of ice. Were it to collapse due to global warming, it would raise global sea level by 5 meters, catastrophically inundating low-lying areas.  |
Chemistry World January 23, 2013 |
Chemical climate proxies With the climate change debate as heated as ever, how do scientists reconstruct what the weather was like in the past? Jon Evans looks at the detective chemistry behind such environmental forensic work  |
Scientific American April 2007 David Biello |
Conservative Climate The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's consensus document may understate the climate change problem.  |
Geotimes January 2005 Megan Sever |
Stalagmite Shows Connected Climate Clues from inside caves in Costa Rica and Panama are helping scientists develop temperature and rainfall records for the last 20,000 years  |
Popular Mechanics December 7, 2007 Logan Ward |
Climate Engineers Build UAV, Radar to Process Subzero Mystery Combining digital radar equipment with unmanned aircraft gives scientists a much-needed edge in understanding why the polar ice sheets are undergoing rapid changes.  |
Outside January 2006 Florence Williams |
Book and Media Reviews The gripping novel The Western Limit of the World tells the story of the inner demons and angels of a hard-boiled modern Odysseus... Two books, Snowstruck and Thin Ice, explore the dangerous reality of avalanches when climbing the world's highest mountains... etc.  |
Popular Mechanics March 15, 2010 Trevor Williams |
Iceberg Forensics: Predicting the Planet's Future With Antarctic Ice Something new is happening with the ice streams and glaciers. They are getting thinner, and they are getting thinner because they are speeding up.  |
IEEE Spectrum May 2007 William B. Gail |
Climate Control We will be able to engineer the Earth to our liking -- but we'd better start now. Before we picked a climate, we would need to evolve the political, commercial, and academic institutions to get us there.  |
IEEE Spectrum December 2005 Erico Guizzo |
Into Deep Ice What does the future hold for Earth's ice? A group of British researchers seeks answers in the bowels of a glacier.  |
Geotimes April 2005 Michael Glantz |
What Makes Good Climates Go Bad? Climates are constantly changing in both linear and nonlinear ways and over the course of life on Earth, organisms have either adjusted to those changes or perished.  |
Scientific American September 2008 Krista West |
Researchers hone seismic skills to peer inside glaciers Seismic data enable scientists to peer inside melting glaciers before they calve  |
IEEE Spectrum September 2011 Paden et al. |
A Next-Generation Ice Radar Scientists can now probe polar ice sheets better than ever using synthetic-aperture radar  |
Geotimes November 2006 Megan Sever |
Conveyor Belt Shutdown Not Imminent As the climate warms and ice on Greenland melts, freshwater pours into the North Atlantic, which new research suggests is unlikely to cause a shutdown in global ocean circulation.  |
Chemistry World January 9, 2014 Emma Stoye |
Iconic carbon dioxide program imperiled by funding shortfall The future of the iconic Keeling Curve, a record of atmospheric carbon dioxide that has been kept for over five decades, is in doubt.  |
Reason October 2005 Sallie Baliunas |
Full of Hot Air Book review: A climate alarmist takes on "criminals against humanity" in Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists and Activists Are Fueling the Climate Crisis -- And What We Can Do to Avert the Disaster, by Ross Gelbspan.  |
Geotimes June 2007 Fred Schwab |
Plunging into the Debate on Climate Change Debate continues about whether the warming effects of greenhouse gases are overshadowed by natural events.  |