Scientists are sounding the alarm about a hidden danger of the rapidly warming Arctic that could have catastrophic consequences for millions of people: the “mercury bomb”. A vast reservoir of ...

On June 20, 2020, the town of Verkhoyansk, Russia, reached a temperature of 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit, the highest temperature ...

An influx of silver liquid might be in our future. The Arctic has kept centuries of mercury deposits locked away, but global warming is threatening to release that stock into the environment.

As Arctic air blasts U.S., see where temperatures ... which will intensify so rapidly it will qualify as a weather “bomb” — will push water against the coastline, causing coastal flooding.

Experts have warned the world is a "giant mercury bomb" ready to explode. A new study from experts at the University of Southern California Dornsife has claimed an area deep in the Arctic ...

DETROIT, Dec 22 (Reuters) - A dangerously frigid arctic air mass gripped a vast expanse ... a weather phenomenon known as a bomb cyclone was likely to develop from a "rapidly deepening low ...

“There could be this giant mercury bomb in the Arctic waiting to explode,” USC Dornsife’s Josh West, a co-author of the study, said in a press statement. “Because of the way it behaves chemically, a ...

WATCHING WINTER LIVE — A deep plunge of arctic air will send most of the country ... science behind our nation’s weather, including bomb cyclones and the polar vortex, and looked at the ...

WATCHING WINTER LIVE — A deep plunge of arctic air will send Chicago’s wind chill into -30 degree territory as the area experiences a so-called bomb cyclone. However a warm-up is in the ...

often referred to as the permafrost carbon time bomb. The release of previously stored carbon dioxide and methane will contribute to further Arctic warming, subsequently accelerating future ...

“There could be this giant mercury bomb in the Arctic waiting to explode,” Josh West, professor of Earth sciences and environmental studies at USC Dornsife who co-authored the study, sai ...

The Arctic has kept centuries of mercury deposits locked away, but global warming is threatening to release that stock into the environment. Mercury can be toxic and cause severe health ...