At the Oscars, apart from Martin Scorsese, among those most feted was Al Gore for his documentary feature titled An Inconvenient Truth that focussed on the dangers of global warming. Deservedly so and no one would grudge Gore if he uses the adulation to take another shot at the US Presidency.
A new radar instrument, called the Global Ice Sheet Mapping Orbiter (gismo) has enabled scientists to see through more than a mile of Greenland ice. The radar revealed an image of land that has been
oceans have cooled substantially during some of the warmest years in recent times, claims a study. During the years 2003 and 2005, which saw the highest global average surface temperatures in more
The meltdown of Greenland's ice sheet has accelerated since 2004 and most of the ice is being lost from its eastern part, shows satellite data. The ice sheet is melting at a rate of about 239 cubic
Greenland's ice sheet could melt even before the stipulated 1,000 years, scientist told a conference in St Louis, usa. A study by the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis
in stark contrast to warming trends observed in many other parts of the globe, Greenland is significantly cooler today than it was 40 years ago. Meteorological data collected by Danish researchers
Researchers at the University of Toronto, Canada have been able to predict rises in sea level attributed to global warming. Usually global warming models predict that the poles will warm up quickly,
global warming is responsible for melting more than 50 billion tonnes of water per year from the Greenland ice sheet, leading to a 59 centimetres rise in global sea level over the last
According to researchers in the United States, the melting of the Greenland icecap may have caused a rise in the sea level during the last interglacial period around 125,000 years ago. At that time
