A 72-year-old granny who pedaled halfway around the world to get to the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference in Egypt and deliver world leaders an important message says she longs to get back home after more than 10 months on the road. Dorothee Hildebrandt, 72, poses in an undated…
(starts) New research has predicted that climate change could intensify the summer acidification of the Arctic Ocean by up to 25 per cent leaving the ecosystem with severe consequences. Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) reported that Earth's oceans have absorbed over a quarter of all anthropogenic carbon dioxide…
Climate change has caused the Greenland ice sheet to lose 4,700 billion tonnes of ice over the last 20 years, enough to submerge the USA in half a metre of water, according to Danish researchers. Polar Portal, a joint project involving several Danish Arctic research institutes, announced the devastating effects…
Picture Credit: CEN/@HotelOfIce A world-famous hotel made out of ice which customers had already booked will not be built this year as a warm December means there is not enough ice to construct it for the first time in 16 years. The internationally famous Balea Lake Ice Hotel has been…
