New funding saves Arctic lab
The federal government has renewed funding for the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL) in Canada’s high Arctic, one year after the research station in Eureka, Nunavut was shut down. The government awarded $5-million to PEARL over five years through its granting agency, the National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). “It was a big …
PEARL Arctic lab saved by long-awaited funding
You heard it on CBC radio’s As It Happens The federal government has renewed funding for the PEARL Arctic research station, one year after it shut down. I broke this story today with CBC radio’s As It Happens. Here’s the story based on the As It Happens interview (the audio is at the top left): …
David Jones, Manager of climate monitoring and prediction at Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology
“The current heatwave – in terms of its duration, its intensity and its extent – is unprecedented in our records. Clearly, the climate system is responding to the background warming trend. Everything that happens in the climate system now is taking place on a planet which is a degree hotter than it used to be.”
Germany’s Klimahaus: the world’s first climate change museum
They say seeing is believing, but at Germany’s imaginative and revealing climate change museum, they believe experience is even better. That’s the driving force behind the immersive installations offered by the Klimahaus (Climate House) and its main exhibit, “The Journey,” that transports visitors around the world along one line of longitude, eight degrees east. Read …
Germany’s Klimahaus: the world’s first climate change museum
Central Canada gets a lesson in seismology from Mother Nature herself
An earthquake in China, Haiti, or Chile, though tragic, seems far from home and difficult to imagine, even given the flood of multimedia that came from each of these disaster areas earlier this year. On June 24, it all became frighteningly clear for residents of Quebec and Ontario. “I was in the kitchen. I was …
Central Canada gets a lesson in seismology from Mother Nature herself