Tag: Arctic
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.…
Global warming: rivers are emptying into the Arctic Ocean at high speed
Arctic rivers provide water and energy to more than 50 million people. They affect ecosystems. And impact the climate on a global scale. Hence the importance of having a detailed…
The Arctic Ocean has been warming for longer than previously thought
To explain the speed with which the Arctic seems to want to warm up, scientists cite, among other things, a phenomenon they have called Atlanticification. A phenomenon by which the…