Seas to rise faster this century. Hot on the heels of findings that tropical cyclones have been intensifying over the past few decades, researchers report in Science that global warming will cause sea levels to rise much faster by the end of the century than officially projected. [News Source]

A deep thaw: how much will vanishing glaciers raise sea levels? Greenland, the world's largest island, holds enough ice to raise global sea levels by 23 feet (seven meters). [News Source]

Federal government will review ice seals. The National Marine Fisheries Service confirmed today it will conduct a full status review of three types of Arctic seals that depend on sea ice for survival. [News Source]

Shrinking Arctic Ocean sea ice signals climate change. Global warming may have accelerated the irreversible loss of ice shelves that are thousands of years old, say scientists. [News Source]

Loss of Manhattan-sized Arctic ice shelf is ’sign of things to come’. An ice shelf almost the size of Manhattan has broken off from an island in the Canadian Arctic, researchers revealed today, warning that the near-record loss of polar ice cover this summer was an indicator of the changes global warming would inflict on mankind. [News Source]

UW researcher contributes to study linking warmer seas, stronger hurricanes. The theory that global warming may be contributing to stronger hurricanes in the Atlantic over the past 30 years is bolstered by a new study led by a Florida State University researcher. [News Source]

Global warming making tropical cyclones fiercer. Increasing ocean temperatures are driving a trend that researchers call consistent with "heat-engine" theory of cyclones. [News Source]

Arctic ice melting at record rate: Scientists. Ice cover in the Arctic Ocean retreated by nearly 2.5 million square kilometres last month - the single biggest August melt observed by scientists, according to the latest satellite measurements released late Thursday by the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center. [News Source]

Australia told to cut greenhouse gas emissions. A government pledge to slash Australia's greenhouse gas emissions by 60 percent by midcentury would not stop dangerous global warming and should be extended to an 80 percent target, a report recommended Friday. [News Source]

Policy against crop failure set to boost farming in Kenya. Farmers who lose their crops to drought and hailstorms will soon be compensated when a new insurance policy that covers weather-related agriculture losses is unveiled. [News Source]

Norway surveys Troll field for carbon storage. Norway has begun seismic surveys at its biggest North Sea oil and gas field, Troll, to determine whether carbon dioxide emissions could be stored there, energy officials said on Friday. [News Source]