Tag: warming
Global warming in the Alps can be seen from space
Global warming causes snow to melt on mountain ranges, which promotes increased vegetation. Satellite data shows that the latter has increased in almost 80% of the Alps, which is not…
Global warming will make Earth’s atmosphere dustier
The amount of dust in the atmosphere is limited by the presence of a “biocrust” composed of various micro-organisms, which preserve arid soils from wind erosion. This biocrust is however…
Is the brutality of the current global warming precipitating us towards a phase transition?
Human activities have an impact on the Earth. Our uncontrolled greenhouse gas emissions are pushing our climate to a limit we shouldn’t want to cross, researchers warn today. Beyond this…
Earth appears to be warming faster than expected
The Earth’s climate is warming. There is no longer any doubt. But what still seems difficult to specify is the actual rate at which this warming is occurring. Or even…
Report: Warming of the Arctic is going faster than expected
So far, researchers have believed that warming in the Arctic is twice as fast as the global average. Now a new study from AMAP, Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program, which…
“Ghost” fossils to understand global warming
The probability of finding a vertebrate fossil is low, so imagine what the probability of discovering the tiny imprints of microalgae witnessing the warming and acidification of the oceans in…
Floods in South Africa: it would not have been such a disaster without global warming
Climate change has doubled the risk of heavy rains and floods in South Africa, according to a research organization that compares the risk of floods with and without climate change,…
Global warming has doubled South Africa’s flood risk
Climate change has doubled the risk of heavy rains and floods in South Africa, according to a research organization that compares the risk of floods with and without climate change,…
Global warming: the 4 records that “bring us closer to climate catastrophe”, according to the UN
The blow to the flank is frank: “A lamentable litany of humanity’s failure to fight against climate change”. It is struck by the Secretary General of the UN, Antonio Guterres.…
The limit of +1.5°C warming will probably be reached or exceeded within 5 years!
One in two risks of reaching, or even exceeding, the +1.5°C warming threshold within 5 years, such is the finding of the WMO, the World Meteorological Organization, in its latest…