Sep 27 Watch Climate Scientists Warn Opportunity to Prevent Dangerous Warming Is Dwindling Climate Scientists Warn Opportunity to Prevent Dangerous Warming Is Dwindling… Continue watching
Sep 27 How much will the climate change in your lifetime? This morning, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released the first of five parts of its report on climate change. Take a look at PBS NewsHour's cheat sheet on what to look for the mega… Continue reading
Sep 27 U.N. report declares climate change is here to stay, and it's our fault By Jenny Marder Protesters in Stockholm demand political action on climate change as the United Nations panel released its latest assessment on Friday. Photo by Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images. On Friday, a group of sleep-deprived climate scientists in Stockholm revealed highlights from the latest… Continue reading
Sep 27 Watch UN Panel: 'Extremely Likely' Earth's Rapid Warming Is Caused by Humans The U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued its strongest warnings yet on global warming. The scientists found it is "extremely likely" -- 95 percent certain -- that human activity is the main cause of rising temperatures. Tom Clarke of… Continue watching
Sep 20 NASA satellites record 6th lowest arctic ice extent on record By Travis Daub From NASA: This summer's sea ice minimum in the Arctic is still the sixth lowest extent of the satellite record and is 432,000 square miles (1.12 million square kilometers) lower than the 1981-2010 average, roughly the size of… Continue reading
Sep 20 Watch EPA Proposal on Power Plant Emissions May Be Regulation 'Launching Point' EPA Proposal on Power Plant Emissions May Be Regulation 'Launching Point'… Continue watching
Sep 18 Watch Melting Ice, Warming Waters Could Erode Way of Life for Alaska's North Slope Melting Ice, Warming Waters Could Erode Way of Life for Alaska's North Slope… Continue watching
Sep 17 Watch Unmapped Routes May Pose Dangers for Shipping Boom in Arctic Waters Unmapped Routes May Pose Dangers for Shipping Boom in Arctic Waters… Continue watching
Sep 17 Controversy Over Shell's Oil Exploration in Arctic Continues Salvage teams assess damage to Royal Dutch Shell's Kulluk drill barge in January after the rig ran aground near Kodiak Island in Alaska. Photo by AFP/Greenpeace/Robert Meyers Rapidly thawing sea ice in the Arctic Circle has threatened polar wildlife… Continue reading
Sep 17 In Alaska, Melting Ice Could Erode Way of Life Temperatures in the Arctic are warming twice as fast as any other place on the planet. PBS NewsHour recently traveled there to report on how Alaska Natives are coping with the cascading effects of climate change on their subsistence lifestyle. Continue reading