SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Starting Tuesday, if you want to explore the world's oceans - from the bottom of Monterey Bay to Australia's Great Barrier Reef - you won't need a scuba tank or submarine, only a home computer and Internet connection. Expanding its popular Google Earth software, Google on Monday unveiled an aquatic component - think "Google Ocean" - that aims to turn everyone into Jacques Cousteau. The new feature combines satellite imagery, underwater photographs, video and scientific data that allows users to see 3-D images of the ocean floor, along with features like the location of ship...
Ocean warming: '50 per cent faster'
Canberra Times
Canberra Times
The ocean is warming about 50 per cent faster than reported two years ago, according to an update of the latest climate science. A report compiling research presented at a science congress in Copenhagen in March says...
Glaciers are growing around the world
The Examiner
The Examiner
2 comments A headline on the AOL homepage yesterday was "Glacier Grows Despite Global Warming." The article continues that scientists are puzzled by the notion. For years now we have had...
Fantasy or fiction: NOAA's climate change impacts report
The Examiner
The Examiner
3 comments RSS Print Well the long awaited report, actually not long enough, was released on Tuesday June 16. The Climate Change Impacts in the United States report (download here) Executive Summary began rather...
Glaciers can shrink "in a geologic instant"
The Times of India
The Times of India
Text: WASHINGTON: A new research by scientists has revealed that modern glaciers in deep ocean water can undergo periods of rapid retreat, where they can shrink even...
Antarctica melting faster than expected: scientist
China Daily
China Daily
WELLINGTON: Scientists from New Zealand have warned that Antarctica is melting faster than expected. The rate of ice loss was up 75 percent since 1996, and was increasing quickly, Professor Peter Barrett of...
Alarm grows over big melt in Antarctica
NZ Herald
NZ Herald
4:00AM Saturday Jul 04, 2009 By Antarctica is shrinking more quickly than expected and the pace is increasing, a conference has been told. Professor Peter Barrett of Victoria University's Antarctic Research Centre...
Obama creates Pacific Northwest Trail
The Examiner
The Examiner
Comments NORTHPORT, Wash. (Map, News) - When the national scenic trails system was created four decades ago, the goal was to build a walking path across the United States. That goal came closer to reality in March, when...
Greenland ice sheet to blame for 25% of global sea rise
The Times of India
The Times of India
Text: WASHINGTON: A new study has determined that the Greenland ice sheet is melting faster than expected, and is consequently responsible for nearly 25 percent of...
Report: Climate change is here
Houston Chronicle
Houston Chronicle
WASHINGTON - Top government scientists on Tuesday warned that climate change already is wreaking devastating changes on the United States, threatening the Southwest with blistering heat, the Gulf Coast with dangerous...
Scientists: Global warming is real, and it is only getting worse
Seattle Times
Seattle Times
WASHINGTON - Man-made climate change is already lifting temperatures, increasing rainfall and raising sea levels around the United States - and its effects are on track to get much worse in the coming century, according...
Obama climate report predicts worsening trend
Denver Post
Denver Post
WASHINGTON — Harmful effects from global warming are already here and worsening, warns the first climate report from Barack Obama's presidency in the strongest language on climate change ever to come out of the...

