Mammoth Antarctic iceberg is on the move, while the ice shelf it left behind grieves its loss.

The Delaware-sized iceberg that calved off the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica sometime between July 10 and July 12 is drifting farther from its former home, while breaking into smaller pieces.  http://mashable.com/2017/07/26/antarctic-iceberg-moves-away-larsen-c-new-cracks/#wDYMg5avfOqi
Article courtesy of Reuters by Alister Doyle

Scientists dim sunlight, suck up carbon dioxide to cool planet

OSLO (Reuters) - Scientists are sucking carbon dioxide from the air with giant fans and preparing to release chemicals from a balloon to dim the sun's rays as part of a climate engineering push to cool the planet. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-geoengineering-idUSKBN1AB0J3
Article courtesy of Reuters by Alister Doyle

Climate Change Is Here. It’s Time to Talk About Geoengineering

Let's pretend that the US didn't recently pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement. Let's also pretend that all the other countries that scolded it for withdrawing also met their Paris pledges on deadline. Heck, let's pretend that that everyone in the whole world did their very best to cut emissions, starting today. Even if all that make-believing came true, the world would still get very hot.  https://www.wired.com/story/lets-talk-geoengineering/
Article courtesy of WIRED- Nick Stockton's Science

The Arctic is full of mercury, and scientists think they know how it’s getting there

The remote Arctic tundra may seem like the last place on Earth human pollution should be causing a problem — yet it’s filled with mercury contamination. That mercury leaks from the soil into rivers and ultimately the Arctic Ocean, contaminating the fish and other sea life that native communities rely on for survival.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/07/12/the-arctic-is-full-of-mercury-and-scientists-think-they-know-how-its-getting-there/?utm_term=.ee39773b8693
Article courtesy of Daily Climate by Chelsea Harvey / Washington Post

Scientists just found a surprising possible consequence from a very small amount of global warming

New research suggests that extreme El Niño events — which can cause intense rainfall, flooding and other severe weather events in certain parts of the world — will occur more and more often as long as humans continue producing greenhouse gas emissions. And even if we’re able to stabilize the global climate at the 1.5-degree threshold, the study concludes, these events will continue to increase in frequency for up to another 100 years afterward. The findings were published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/07/24/it-was-really-a-surprise-even-minor-global-warming-could-worsen-super-el-ninos-scientists-find/?utm_term=.06cd98baad73
Article courtesy of The Washington Post by Chelsea Harvey

Global warming melts ice, alters fabled Northwest Passage

THE ARCTIC CIRCLE (AP) — More than a century has passed since the first successful transit of the treacherous, ice-bound Northwest Passage by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen in 1906. Now The Associated Press is sending a text, video and photo team through the passage, where global warming is melting sea ice and glaciers at an historic rate, altering and opening up the Arctic in a way unprecedented in recorded history.  http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=235&sid=45063233&title=global-warming-melts-ice-alters-fabled-northwest-passage
Article courtesy of The Associated Press by Frank Jordans