BOULDER, Colorado, Feb. 12 -- The National Snow and Ice Data Center, a part of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, issued the following news: Since 1978, Arctic sea ice extent has declined and ice cover has thinned, as reported in a new publication in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by NSIDC director Mark Serreze and senior research scientist Walt Meier. In contrast, Antarctic sea ice extent has slightly increased. "When you look at the data, there   more

BOULDER, Colorado, Feb. 12 -- The National Center for Atmospheric Research issued the following news release: The 2019 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement - often described as the "Nobel Prize for the environment" - has been awarded to climate scientists Warren Washington of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University. Washington is a distinguished scholar at NCAR whose pioneering work on global climate models has influenced decad  more