Global Warming

Anchorage's smoky summer won't relent. As of Tuesday morning, the most populated city in Alaska had the worst air quality in the nation, according to the World Air Quality Index.  A number of late-season wildfires have perpetuated Anchorage's hazy summer, wh…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska has been America’s canary in the coal mine for climate warming, and the yellow bird is swooning. July was Alaska’s warmest month ever, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Sea ice melted. Bering Sea fi…

Abstract Szuwalski argues that varying age structure can affect surplus production and that recruitment is a better metric of productivity. We explain how our null model controlled for age structure and other processes as explanations for the temperature-pro…

When will all the ice in the Arctic be gone? This is a question often asked of sea-ice researchers by the media, the general public and policy makers—and no wonder. Several recent reports have detailed the accelerated loss of summer sea-ice cover in the Arcti…

Arctic sea ice could disappear completely through September each summer if average global temperatures increase by as little as 2 degrees, according to a new study by the University of Cincinnati.The study by an international team of researchers was published…

Ms. James said under the Trump administrations suggested best system of reducing emissions,carbon dioxide pollution will come down only 0.7 percent more in the coming decade than it would if no rule existed at all. Others joining the suit include Connecticut…

In July, Japan resumed commercial whaling after a three-decade hiatus. Many Western nations and organizations condemned the move. Although I would personally prefer that no nation engage in commercial whaling, I find it hypocritical that many Americans and Ca…

New research, published today in the journal Nature Climate Change, has found that Antarctic icebergs can weaken and delay the effect of global warming in the Southern Hemisphere.Unabated global warming threatens the stability of the Antarctic ice sheet. Rece…

Canada   Wage growth in Canada accelerated last month to its highest level in more than decade, according to numbers released Friday from Statistics Canada. The 4.5 per cent burst in wages came in a month that also produced less-positive data: the unemploym…

Today, deforestation is a leading contributor to global warming, a harrowing reminder that we need trees to survive. But when plants are cultivated in their natural habitat, they absorb harmful carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, thus offsetting the damaging …