Tag: Arctic
Gas, oil, metals… The controversial battle for Arctic ice
With its navigation bridge painted in white, blue and red and the inscriptions in Cyrillic on its hull, the nationality of the Sibir leaves little room for mystery. On January…
The Arctic ice cap has not finished suffering from global warming
Temperatures are rising. And the ice melts. With the risk of raising the level of the oceans all over the world. This is why researchers continue to try to learn…
Weather forecast: an incredible sweetness to end the year!
You will not have missed it, this end of the year is incredibly sweet on our country! Monthly records were recorded. Like almost everywhere in the world. Sometimes cold records…
Who owns the Arctic?
The Arctic is the northernmost part of the planet, where the average temperature of the hottest month is below 10 ° C. Countries that are close to the Arctic fight…
Overheating of Antarctica and the Arctic in December
After experiencing one of its coldest winters since weather records began, Antarctica is currently facing extremely high temperatures, up to 20 ° C above seasonal averages. The same heat anomalies…
Global warming in 2021: the alarm signals are everywhere!
The year that is coming to an end will have been disrupted in many ways. Especially in terms of climate. All over the Globe, catastrophes have followed one another at…
The Little Ice Age was caused by a warming
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (United States) reconstructed sea surface temperatures showing the effects of the meridional overturning circulation of the Atlantic, the Amoc, during the period…
How the melting Arctic sets the United States on fire
In the Arctic, the ice is melting. In the American West, forest fires are getting more and more violent. All because of anthropogenic global warming. Researchers are now showing how…
In the heart of the ice, the secrets of the climate
The analysis of the ice obtained by coring allows to reconstruct the variations of the temperature and the chemical composition of theatmosphere in the past, and that until approximately 400,000…
The “thermokarst” climate bomb, or the sudden collapse of permafrost due to fires
What directly melts the Arctic is anthropogenic global warming. But researchers are now telling us that the intensifying forest fires in the region are accelerating the thawing of the permafrost.…