U of I has the hottest website when it comes to global warming.
November 1, 2008
Cryosphere Today

One of today’s hottest websites when it comes to global warming is The Cryosphere Today, produced by the Polar Research Group in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences. Devoted to conveying the ever-changing state of polar ice caps, the site includes daily ice concentrations dating back 30 years, charts to show how ice coverage deviates from normal, ice melt animations, and more (even a mobile Web application).

Drawing data from the National Center for Environmental Prediction, the site has become a well-known reference in global warming debates. Whatever your stand, the latest data is there.

Mark Lara, Zhuoxuan Xia
Team tracks vegetation recovery from sudden permafrost collapse
 Some Arctic regions regain their “greenness” within a decade of a sudden permafrost collapse, while others can take a century or more to recover, researchers report in a new study. The difference is directly related to each site’s gross primary productivity, a measure of its photosynthetic...
Black and white illustration of the HMS Challenger, a large, narrow ship leaning from the rough waves
Book looks at treasure trove of scientific data from 19th-century HMS Challenger voyage
 The voyage of the HMS Challenger in the 1870s was a sprawling 3½-year expedition to explore the world’s oceans. The scientists aboard the vessel collected 100,000 specimens of sea creatures, discovered 5,000 new species, mapped the ocean floors and took hundreds of measurements of sea...
Strength of tectonic plates may explain shape of Tibetan Plateau, study finds
Strength of tectonic plates may explain shape of Tibetan Plateau, study finds
    Geoscientists have long puzzled over the mechanism that created the Tibetan Plateau. A new study finds that the landform’s history may be controlled primarily by the strength of the tectonic plates whose collision prompted its uplift. Given that the region is one of the most...