WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Surface melting fueled by climate warming can trigger dramatic events on the vast Greenland ice sheet such as a lake suddenly vanishing through a crack with force of Niagara Falls, experts said on Thursday.
Rising global temperatures are expected to cause an increase in meltwater in frozen expanses like the Greenland ice sheet, [...]

“This is just a time bomb,” said hydrologist Wouter Buytaert at a meeting of geoscientists in Vienna. Glaciers and mountain snow are melting earlier in the year than usual. This is going to be a problem when the dry season comes and water won’t be available.
The areas most at risk from a lack of water [...]

A new report released by Greenpeace on the 10th of April 2008 finds that logging in Canada’s Boreal Forest is making global warming worse by releasing greenhouse gases and reducing carbon storage. It also finds that logging makes the forest more susceptible to global warming impacts like wildfires and insect outbreaks, which in turn release [...]

MIAMI (Reuters) – The noted Colorado State University hurricane research team on Wednesday raised the number of tropical storms and hurricanes it expects to form in the upcoming Atlantic storm season.
The team founded by forecasting pioneer Bill Gray increased its outlook by two tropical storms to 15, and by one hurricane to eight, compared with [...]