NewsPronto

 
Times Advertising


.

USA Conversation

The Conversation USA

The Conversation USA

Melting Arctic sends a message: Climate change is here in a big way

  • Written by Mark Serreze, Research Professor of Geography and director, National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado
Scientists on Arctic sea ice in the Chukchi Sea, surrounded by melt ponds, July 4, 2010.NASA/Kathryn Hansen

Scientists have known for a long time that as climate change started to heat up the Earth, its effects would be most pronounced in the Arctic. This has many reasons, but climate feedbacks are key. As the Arctic warms, snow and ice melt, and...

Read more: Melting Arctic sends a message: Climate change is here in a big way

More Articles ...

  1. Mother's milk holds the key to unlocking an evolutionary mystery from the last ice age
  2. When college tuition goes up, campus diversity goes down
  3. Female firefighters defy old ideas of who can be an American hero
  4. Invoking noble coal miners is a mainstay of American politics
  5. Beaches are becoming safer for baby sea turtles, but threats await them in the ocean
  6. Immigration policies can make the difference between life and death for newborn US children
  7. Defending hospitals against life-threatening cyberattacks
  8. How the pretzel went from soft to hard – and other little-known facts about one of the world's favorite snacks
  9. How live liver transplants could save thousands of lives
  10. Why this conservative bastion chose a liberal evangelical icon for its commencement speech
  11. Kids of color get kicked out of school at higher rates – here's how to stop it
  12. Why it's so hard for doctors to understand your pain
  13. Fake drugs are one reason malaria still kills so many
  14. What Comey learned from theologian Reinhold Niebuhr about ethical leadership
  15. Self-driving cars and humans face inevitable collisions
  16. Why are some _E. coli_ deadly while others live peacefully within our bodies?
  17. States are favoring school choice at a steep cost to public education
  18. Lynching memorial shows women were victims, too
  19. Lynching memorial will show that women were victims, too
  20. Argentina's abortion legalization debate ignites soul searching on women's rights
  21. Argentinos empiezan a contemplar los derechos de la mujer, comenzando con el aborto
  22. Women in tech suffer because of American myth of meritocracy
  23. Why genetics makes some people more vulnerable to opioid addiction – and protects others
  24. Rap music's path from pariah to Pulitzer
  25. Global timber trafficking harms forests and costs billions of dollars – here's how to curb it
  26. Why does a president demand loyalty from people who work for him?
  27. Aneurysm strikes baseball pitcher, but why? A neurosurgeon explains the mysterious condition
  28. How images change our race bias
  29. Delivering VR in perfect focus with nanostructure meta-lenses
  30. Wind energy's swift growth, explained
  31. Should you insure that trip or TV? Here's what an economist would do
  32. The census will officially count same-sex couples for the first time ever – but that's not enough
  33. Macron-Trump summit has high stakes for France's embattled leader
  34. Comey memos follow tradition of J. Edgar Hoover keeping notes on presidents
  35. What Greek tragedy illuminates about James Comey
  36. Climate change may scuttle Caribbean's post-hurricane plans for a renewable energy boom
  37. Is Earth's ozone layer still at risk? 5 questions answered
  38. Market forces are driving a clean energy revolution in the US
  39. Trump's exports-good, imports-bad trade policy, debunked by an economist
  40. Harvard sexual harassment case scars the institution as well as victims
  41. As marijuana goes mainstream, what's happening to the way we talk about weed?
  42. Why marijuana fans should not see approval for epilepsy drug as a win for weed
  43. Democratic Party's pluralism is both a strength and weakness
  44. Housing discrimination thrives 50 years after Fair Housing Act tried to end it
  45. Our centuries-long quest for 'a quiet place'
  46. What's unconscious bias training, and does it work?
  47. I run 'facial recognition' on buildings to unlock architectural secrets
  48. The US is stingier with child care and maternity leave than the rest of the world
  49. 2008 financial crisis still seems like only yesterday for single women
  50. Bike-share companies are transforming US cities – and they're just getting started