Homo sapiens, the adaptable animal? I grew up reading a lot of science fiction that was written in the 1950’s and 1960’s, and for a variety of reasons (among them, a key editor named John A. Campbell) a very popular “meme” in that era was a rather triumphalist view of man as ...

This morning, another person who also goes by the name of Jim left this comment to a post regarding data on Arctic sea ice extent collected by the National Snow and Ice Data Center: OK, all this data must be considered faulty because the National Snow and Ice Data Center now admits their sensor has ...

Dtjohnson writes "The subject Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) has been at the forefront of predicting doom in the arctic as ice melts due to global warming. In May, 2008 they went so far as to predict that the North Pole would be ice-free during the 2008 'melt season,' leading to a lively Slashdot ...

Reuters: North America's coastlines would be hit especially hard by rising sea levels if the huge West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapses and melts in a warming world as some experts fear, scientists said on Thursday. The loss of that ice sheet alone would inundate some coastal areas, swamping New York, ...

Reuters: North America's coastlines would be hit especially hard by rising sea levels if the huge West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapses and melts in a warming world as some experts fear, scientists said on Thursday. The loss of that ice sheet alone would inundate some coastal areas, swamping New York, ...

Reuters: North America's coastlines would be hit especially hard by rising sea levels if the huge West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapses and melts in a warming world as some experts fear, scientists said on Thursday. The loss of that ice sheet alone would inundate some coastal areas, swamping New York, ...

Guardian: The Arctic Ocean occupies just 3% of the Earth's surface. It is the smallest and shallowest of the oceans, made up of two basins separated by the Lomonosov ridge. The expanding and contracting veneer of floating sea ice that it supports makes it a unique habitat – and one that is thr...

What determines how much coverage a climate study gets? It probably goes without saying that it isn't strongly related to the quality of the actual science, nor to the clarity of the writing. Appearing in one of the top journals does help (Nature, Science, PNAS and occasionally GRL), though that in ...

Nominations for the NME's annual addition to the bonfire of British awards shows, the Shockwave Awards, were announced today, with longtime darlings Oasis scoring seven nods—including a Worst Band nomination—and Arctic Monkeys/Last Shadow Puppets frontman Alex Turner amassing six. Of cou...

On a cold Monday in December, one of Britain's most experienced polar explorers is sitting in an even colder room in Portsmouth, explaining his latest mission. The temperature has been turned down to a mere -20C, tropical by comparison to the almost inconceivable conditions he will have to endure du...