[2012-07-31] Northwest Passage as good as open + http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/greenland-melts-open-water-in-arctic-ocean-scientists + http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=78778 + http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=78797 + http://neven1.typepad.com/blog/2012/08/peeking-through-the-clouds-3.html + http://www.earthweek.com/2012/ew120810/ew120810x.html + http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/fast-melt-canadian-arctic-may-open-northwest-passage-year + http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2012/08/13/north-northwest-passage-sail.html + http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0815-nasa-nwpassage.html with northwest_passage
[2012-08-01] Climate change the cause of summer's extreme weather, Congress told + http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/08/in-this-political-climate-global-warming-goes-underground.html + http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/08/deja-vu-at-senate-climate-hearing.html + http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Hearing&Hearing_ID=c0293eca-802a-23ad-4706-02abdbf7f7c3 + http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-08/su-seb080112.php with climate_changeextreme_weatherusa
[2012-08-01] NOAA, partners: Earth’s oceans and ecosystems still absorbing about half the greenhouse gases emitted by people + http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-08/nh-eoa072712.php + http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-08/uoca-eam072712.php + http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/nature-soaks-up-more-greenhouse-gases-brakes-warming + http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/08/scienceshot-earth-keeps-sucking-.html + http://e360.yale.edu/digest/planets_carbon_storing_capacity_keeping_pace_with_human_emissions/3574/ + http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v488/n7409/full/nature11299.html + http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0806-hance-earth-sequestration.html with carbon_cycle
[2012-08-02] Dust Dominates Foreign Aerosol Imports to North America + http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/dust-imports.html + http://www.sciencemag.org/content/337/6094/566.abstract + http://e360.yale.edu/digest/nasa_study_quantifies__vast_amount_of_dust_reaching_north_america/3575/ + http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=78742 + http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctLjBaifR2I + http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011000/a011068/ + http://www.futurity.org/earth-environment/dust-from-abroad-pollutes-north-americas-air/ with aerosolsdust
[2012-08-02] Greenland's ice 'melts in spurts' + http://www.sciencemag.org/content/337/6094/569 + http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/greenland-ice-said-more-robust-to-climate-change-than-feared + http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22131-greenland-loses-ice-in-fits-and-starts.html + http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-08/uoc-apr073012.php + http://sciencenordic.com/aerial-photos-greenland-topple-climate-models with deglaciationgreenland
[2012-08-05] New study helps predict impact of ocean acidification on shellfish + http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/press/press_releases/press_release.php?id=1879 + http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/ocean-acidification-could-disrupt-marine-food-chains + http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/65674acidic_oceans_mean_thinner_smaller_shells_for_sea_critters_study/ + http://www.sciencealert.com.au/news/20120708-23643.html with ocean_acidificationshellfish