Community ChoiceClimate change: Melting ice behind arctic warmingNatureNature
Climate scienceThe article reports that James Screen and colleagues at the University of Melbourne in Australia have disentangled and quantified local and remote contributions of melting ice to the rapid surface warming in the Arctic.doi:10.1038/486297eY. Sasai...
“Climate change” encompasses global warming, but refers to the broader range of changes that are happening to our planet. These include rising sea levels; shrinking mountain glaciers; accelerating ice melt in Greenland, Antarctica and the Arctic; ...
According to the latest report by UNESCO, in partnership with IUCN,World heritage glaciers: sentinels of climate change*, they lose on average some 58 billion tons of ice every year – and contribute to almost 5 per cent of glo...
Another crucial environmental threat is Earth's temperature, which has increased by 0.08 °C per decade since 1880 and has provided different consequences like global warming, climate change, and ice melting [8]. Carbon dioxide emissions are another critical issue of environmental pollution in the ...
Sumner, PD, Meiklejohn, KI, Boelhouwers, J & Hedding, DW (2004) Climate change melts Marion Island's snow and ice. South African Journal of Science 100: 395-398.Sumner, P.D., Meiklejohn, K.I., Boelhouwers, J.C., and Hedding, D.W. (2004) Climate change melts Marion Island’...
Climate change and global warming are having a strong impact on Iceland. According to the third report on impacts of climate change in Iceland, issued in May 2018 by a Scientific Committee on Climate Change lead by the Icelandic Met Office, by the late 1990s, more than 90 percent ...
Whales like belugas will experience more pollution and ship noise in places that used to be clean and quiet.”可知,北极冰融化会使白鲸经历更多的污染。 故选B。 10.B 解 :根据 一段第二 "For example, as ice melts, killer whales are traveling farther north in search of food.”可知,虎鲸向北...
Climate change - Human Impact, Global Warming, Carbon Emissions: Human societies have experienced climate change since the development of agriculture some 10,000 years ago. These climate changes have often had profound effects on human cultures and socie
Climate change is creating a warmer world with rising sea levels and more dangerous weather. It is also messing up ecosystems around the world. Some of the most dramatic changes can be seen in the Arctic, where sea ice is melting. Even the oldest sea ice, which usually sticks around year...