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Even the Antarctic winter cannot protect Wilkins Ice Shelf

Wilkins Ice Shelf, a broad plate of floating ice south of South America on the Antarctic Peninsula, is connected to two islands, Charcot and Latady. In…

Has Global Warming Research Misinterpreted Cloud Behavior?

Climate experts agree that the seriousness of manmade global warming depends greatly upon how clouds in the climate system respond to the small warming…

Global Temperature Report – May 2008

May headlines:Tropics see 5th coolest month;Globe coolest since Jan. 2000Global trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.13 C per decadeMay temperatures (preliminary)Global composite temp.: – 0.18 C (about 0.32 degrees Fahrenheit) below…

Permafrost threatened by rapid melt of Arctic sea ice

The findings raise concerns about the thawing of permafrost, or permanently frozen soil, and the potential consequences for sensitive ecosystems, human…

Corporate Volunteers to Fight Climate Change in the Bronx

A quaint community garden in New York—dedicated in part to growing food for the hungry—is about to become a small part of a big $100 million effort to fight…

Corporate Volunteers Lend a Helping Hand in the Olmsted Parks

On June 11th, roughly 50 employees from HSBC, the world’s largest bank, will abandon their offices for a day to catalog hundreds of trees that were planted by…

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