The Antarctic Report is a New Zealand-based publication dedicated to reporting on "the hard science which underlines the importance of Antarctica as a bellwether of global climate change." The website emerged from World Science Week, a 2014 conference in Auckland, New Zealand where scientists, researchers, and governmental science advisors from around the world gathered for a series of summits. On...
This article from Science Advances, an open-source, online journal created by the publishers of Science, asks a simple question: What would happen to the Antarctic ice sheets if the nations of the world used all of the presently known fossil fuel reserves? The answer? If the world uses all of the known reserves, including tar-sands oil and shale gas, approximately ten trillion tons of carbon will...