![]() Russia has blocked a UN Security Council draft resolution which would have “defined climate change as a threat to peace”, the New York Times reports. And Reuters has outlined the extreme weather events seen around the globe this year. ![]() It adds that the report has prompted “fresh doubts…over whether Australia can rely on boosting soil carbon to achieve its net zero emissions goals”. The Guardian covers a new report on soil health trends in forests in New South Wales (Australia), which finds that rising temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns could increase carbon losses and “make it more difficult to identify net carbon emissions”. Elsewhere, the Independent reports that golden jackals are spreading out across western Europe for the first time in centuries, as snow diminishes across the continent. The Conversation notes that diners are more likely to choose a vegetarian option when 75% of the menu is meat-free, according to new research. ![]() Meanwhile, the Independent covers a study which finds that the global supply of farmed seafood could drop by 16% over the next 70 years, “unless more is done to tackle the climate emergency”. In other news about the impacts of the changing climate, Bloomberg covers new analysis which finds that fires in Alaska are causing carbon-dense permafrost to melt. It continues: “The WMO said the temperature, more befitting the Mediterranean than the poles, came during conditions which averaged as much as 10C above normal for much of the summer over Arctic Siberia.” According to the newswire, a temperature of 38C was recorded in the Russian town of Verkhoyansk on 20 June 2020. ![]() Meanwhile, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has confirmed a new record-high temperature for the Arctic, reports the Press Association. Meanwhile, the New York Times has published an interactive, showing water upwelling patterns around the Antarctic. MailOnline includes satellite images shown at the AGU meeting. New Scientist adds that, according to the researchers, the glacier “could break free of the continent within 10 years, which could lead to catastrophic sea level rise and potentially set off a domino effect in surrounding ice”. Stretching 120km across a length of frozen coastline, the glacier already contributes 4% to annual global sea levels, the outlet notes. BBC News adds that the Thwaites glacier’s outflow speed has already doubled over the past 30 years. Satellite images taken as recently as last month and presented Monday at the annual meeting of the American Geosciences Union (AGU) show several large, diagonal cracks extending across the floating ice wedge.” The paper adds that if the shelf fails, the eastern third of Thwaites Glacier will triple in speed. But new data show that the warming ocean is eroding the eastern ice shelf from below. It continues: “Until recently, the ice shelf was seen as the most stable part of Thwaites glacier…Because of this brace, the eastern portion of Thwaites flowed more slowly than the rest of the notorious ‘doomsday glacier’. Scientists have “discovered a series of worrying weaknesses” in the ice shelf, according to the Washington Post. If this happens, the glacier’s contribution to sea level rise could eventually increase by as much as 25%, it adds. CNBC explains that the glacier is currently held back by a “crucial” ice shelf – but warns that, according to scientists, the ice shelf “could shatter within the next five years”. Then, as now, the South Pole would have been subjected to four months of unyielding darkness during the Antarctic winter.Scientists have warned that the Thwaites glacier in Antarctica – often known as the “Doomsday glacier” – is fracturing and “retreating rapidly”, the Independent reports. They also hint something about how such a thing could have been possible.īy the team's estimates, thanks to the creeping drift of continental plates the drill site would have been several hundred kilometres closer to the South Pole back when dinosaurs still roamed. The implications of this unprecedented find don't just tell us polar plant life existed way back when. "The numerous plant remains indicate that the coast of West Antarctica was, back then, a dense temperate, swampy forest, similar to the forests found in New Zealand today," says palaeoecologist Ulrich Salzmann from Northumbria University in the UK. Microscopic analyses also found evidence of pollen and spores, all pointing to the preserved remains of an ancient rainforest that existed in Antarctica approximately 90 million years ago, eons before the landscape was transformed into a barren province of ice. Back on land, scans described an intricate network of fossilised plant roots.
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