Lloyd’s of London’s 360 Reports on Climate Change and Risk Reports. Lloyd’s reports that the insurance industry should start planning and modeling now for a higher level of losses across the world by the middle of the century as both the severity and frequency of weather events increase. The alternative - waiting until definitive scientific […]

Oct 4 2007 - Shrinking ice ‘locked into spiral of decline’ by Darren Devine, Western Mail
DRAMATIC new evidence showing that ice cover on the Arctic Ocean has fallen to its lowest level recorded proves the area is “locked into a spiral of decline”, a Welsh scientist said last night.
Bangor University Oceanographer Dr Tom Rippeth, who […]

“Night-shining” clouds are bringing a mystery that NASA has now made a mission to study- these hauntingly beautiful noctilucent clouds were previously restricted to the poles but are now being seen over Colorado. This photograph here was taken over the Juneau, Alaska, ice field in 1998.

‘Night-shining’ clouds, also known as ‘noctilucent’ clouds were discovered 120 […]

The Great Barrier Reef could be dead in 20 years unless there is a drastic reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, a marine biology expert in Australia said in early April.
Rising sea temperatures were bleaching the coral and causing it to die, said Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg of the Australian Research Council Centre for Excellence for Coral […]

Toxic ocean algae swamping sections of California’s coastline has sickened hundreds of birds, sea lions and dolphins, in late April. The animals are being sickened by domoic acid, a naturally-occurring microscopic algae. Birds and sea mammals ingest the toxin by consuming fish and shellfish which consume the algae.Although algae blooms appear every year, environmentalists say […]

A monster colossal squid thought to weigh 450 kilograms (990 pounds) has been landed in Timaru by the Sanford deep sea fishing vessel San Aspiring. New Zealand fishermen have caught the squid as it swam for food in Antarctic waters. It took the fishermen two hours to catch.
The colossal squid, scientific name “Mesonychoteuthis Hamiltoni”, is […]

More than 1,600 sea bird carcasses had washed onto Unalaska shores over two days in September 2006 in a mysterious die-off that scientists are scrambling to understand.
In a collision with a boat, several hundred black, gull-like shearwaters died after flying into a crabbing boat that steamed through the early morning darkness in Unalaska Bay […]

We were recently reading (and, to be quite honest, laughing) articles touting weather modification, a topic discussed very often by conspiracy theorists. The technology of weather modification has been pushed by many of these theorists as ‘secret’ above-board projects of the largest governments, particularly that of the United States.
They say ‘Curiosity Kills the Cat’ and […]

Altered Oceans Report by the Los Angeles Times - By Kenneth R. Weiss, Usha Lee McFarling - Dec 27, 2006
This report makes the extent of damage to fishing, sea life and even humans very clear. The appearance of the Red Tide Algae has already cost the lives of scores of sea animals and affect the […]