Overturned sedimentary rocks of the Lisburne Group under a midnight rainbow near Galbraith Lake, Alaska, summer 2001. (Credit: USGS photo by David Houseknecht)
Global Warming News : Huge Amount Of Fossil Fuels In Arctic: 90 Billion Barrels Of Oil And 1,670 Trillion Cubic Feet Of Natural Gas
The area north of the Arctic Circle has an estimated [...]

Global Warming News : Typhoons Bury Tons Of Carbon In The Oceans

A single typhoon in Taiwan buries as much carbon in the ocean — in the form of sediment — as all the other rains in that country all year long combined.
That’s the finding of an Ohio State University study published in a recent issue [...]

Global Warming News : Massive Greenhouse Gases May Be Released As Destruction, Drying Of World Wetlands Worsen
Leading world scientists convene in Brazil July 21-25 amid growing concern that evaporation and ongoing destruction of world wetlands, which hold a volume of carbon similar to that in the atmosphere today, could cause them to exhale billows of [...]

Global Warming News : Greatest Value Of Forests Is Sustainable Water Supply
The forests of the future may need to be managed as much for a sustainable supply of clean water as any other goal, researchers say in a new federal report — but even so, forest resources will offer no “quick fix” to the insatiable, [...]