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Antarctica ice to double sea rise - study
(The Manila Times,April 1, 2016 , on page A8)Melting ice from Antarctica could raise oceans by a meter before 2100 at current rates of greenhouse gas emissions, doubling previous forecasts for sea level rise, according to a study released Wednesday (Thursday in ... -
Antarctica ice to double sea rise-study
(The Manila Times,April 1, 2016 , on page A8)Paris: Melting ice from Antarctica could raise oceans by a meter before 2100 at current rates of greenhouse gas emissions, doubling previous forecasts for sea level rise, according to a study released Wednesday (Thursday ... -
Arctic animals cope with climate change
(Manila Standard,September 2, 2015 , on page B8)When it comes to coping with climate change in the Arctic region, which is warming at three times the global average, some animals are more equal than others. Migrating Barnacle geese that fly north to lay eggs amid the ... -
Arctic oil infrastructure faces climate karma
(BusinessWorld,July 8, 2020 , on page S1/9)Beaches, clear blue seas, scorching temperatures and long days. Forget the Caribbean, your next summer beach holiday could be on the shores of Russia’s Arctic Ocean. Temperatures at Nizhnyaya Pesha, some 840 miles (1,352 ... -
Arctic Sea ice shrinks to second lowest on record
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,September 23, 2020 , on page A8)Warming in the Arctic shrank the ice covering the polar ocean this year to its second-lowest extent in four decades, scientists said Monday, yet another sign of how climate change is rapidly transforming the region. ... -
As seas rise, saltwater plants offer hope farms will survive
(Manila Bulletin,June 16, 2015 , on page B-8)On a sun-scorched wasteland near India’s southern tip, an unlikely garden filled with spiky shrubs and spindly greens is growing, seemingly against all odds. The plants are living on saltwater, coping with drought and ... -
Choking air, melting glaciers changing India
(The Manila Times,November 18, 2015 , on page C4)India’s landscapes are changing – from the melt in the Himalayas, to the increasingly arid farm belts in the middle and the stunning coasts where fishermen talk of rising, warmer seas eroding their shores. “Changes in sea ... -
Companies need to wake up to the new normal of climate change
(Manila Bulletin,November 25, 2019 , on page 6)Think wine growers in Australia, ski resort operators in Japan, or fishing and farming communities in the Philippines, whose way of life depends on environmental conditions that are already changing dramatically. In areas ... -
Greenland lost 586B tons of ice in 2019
(SunStar Philippines,August 23, 2020 , on page 14)Greenland lost a record amount of ice during an extra warm 2019, with the melt massive enough to cover California in more than four feet (1.25 meters) of water, a new study said. After two years when summer ice melt had ... -
Greenland's rapid ice loss driven by warming seas
(Manila Bulletin,February 16, 2010 , on page B-6)Greenland's continent-sized icesheet is being significantly eroded by winds and currents that drive warmer water into fjords, where it carves out the base of coastal glaciers, according to studies released Sunday. The icy ... -
Humpback whales move north; warm oceans may be the cause
(BusinessMirror,September 27, 2020 , on page A4)Humpback whales are steadily moving north, and warmer seas and melting ice may be the reason. The whales, which move between the Antarctic and the southern tips of three continents, will be the focus of a six-year, $5-million ... -
Innovations for sustainable oceans
(SunStar Philippines,June 11, 2020 , on page 7)On the occasion of World Oceans Day, the role of the oceans -- which provide the oxygen we breathe, food, as well as regulate the climate -- will be celebrated online Monday with the theme “Innovation for Sustainable Ocean”. ... -
Is the Paris deal a solution against climate change?
(Panay News,January 13, 2016 , on page C2)The world is in a serious threat called climate change brought about by our very own discriminate wrongdoings. Global temperature was seen to increase by 1°C from the 19th century which resulted to the melting of glaciers ... -
Melting Greenland ice may leak waste
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,September 27, 2016 , on page A13)A snow-covered former US army base in Greenland — dubbed “a city under ice” — could leak pollutants into the environment as the climate changes, raising difficult questions over who is responsible for a clean-up. In 1959, ... -
Melting Greenland ice threatens to expose Cold War waste
(The Manila Times,September 27, 2016 , on page A6)A network of tunnels under the snow contained everything from research facilities to a hospital, a cinema and a church — all powered by a small, portable nuclear reactor. The pollutants left behind include PCBs used in ... -
Sea level rise accelerating
(Manila Bulletin,February 15, 2018 , on page B8)Melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are speeding up the already fast pace of sea level rise, new satellite research shows. At the current rate, the world's oceans on average will be at least 2 feet (61 centimeters) ... -
Sea level rise will swallow Miami, New Orleans - study
(The Manila Times,October 15, 2015 , on page A6)Say goodbye to Miami and New Orleans. No matter what we do to curb global warming, these and other beloved US cities will sink below rising seas, according to a study today. But making extreme carbon cuts and moving to ... -
Some, not all arctic animals cope with climate change
(BusinessWorld,September 2, 2015 , on page S1/9)When it comes to coping with climate change in the Arctic region, which is warming at three times the global average, some animals are more equal than others. Migrating Barnacle geese that fly north to lay eggs amid the ... -
Sudden disappearance of Arctic Ice to have disastrous effect, scientist warns
(Manila Bulletin,October 6, 2016 , on page 8)The last of the Arctic’s summer sea ice will melt away completely within the next two years, a Cambridge University scientist predicts, leading to sea-level rise and an acceleration of global warming as the planet’s natural ... -
A trillion-ton iceberg, the size of Cebu island, redraws Antarctica's map
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,July 14, 2017 , on page A12)One of the biggest icebergs on record has broken away from the Antarctic Peninsula, providing a glimpse of how the Antarctic ice sheet might ultimately start to fall apart. The iceberg, which is roughly the size of the US ...