http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (Phys.org)—Antarctica's recent summer season was a success for the Penn State researchers who camped out on the ice for nearly two months. Their efforts are part of a National Science Foundation-funded project to better understand melting that is happening on the Pine Island Glacier ice shelf, an extension of the Antarctic ice sheet. The Penn State team is in charge of mapping the ocean cavity beneath the ice shelf. http://phys.org/news280570000.html Space & Earth Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:06:47 EST news280570000 Water, the key to life, is also a key to understanding the way the natural world works. Water in the form of ice is especially instructive. http://phys.org/news279965010.html Space & Earth Wed, 13 Feb 2013 08:10:01 EST news279965010 Future sea level rise due to the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets could be substantially larger than estimated in Climate Change 2007, the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC, according to new research from the University of Bristol. http://phys.org/news276684995.html Space & Earth Sun, 06 Jan 2013 13:00:07 EST news276684995 A trio of very large-scale, National Science Foundation-funded Antarctic science projects—investigating scientifically significant subjects as varied as life in extreme ecosystems, the fate of one of the world's largest ice sheets and the nature of abrupt global climate-change events—have recently each reached important technological milestones that will advance cutting-edge research. http://phys.org/news275244631.html Space & Earth Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:50:39 EST news275244631 Glaciation events during the Neoproterozoic (524-to-1,000 million years ago) and Paleoproterozoic (1,600-to-2,500 million years ago) periods - events that spawned ice ages that persisted for millions of years at a time - may have seen glacier ice encircle the planet in a frosty planetary configuration known as a Snowball Earth. http://phys.org/news272050597.html Space & Earth Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:50:01 EST news272050597 As NASA's Operation IceBridge resumed Antarctic science flights on Oct. 12, 2012, researchers worldwide had their eyes on Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier ice shelf, the site of a large rift measured during last year's campaign. This 18-mile-long crack is the start of a calving event that could potentially create a massive iceberg. The Pine Island Glacier broke large icebergs in 2001 and 2007, but the 2011 IceBridge survey marked the first time a rift has been measured in great detail from the air. IceBridge will be based out of Punta Arenas, Chile, in October and November. http://phys.org/news269587078.html Space & Earth Tue, 16 Oct 2012 06:18:10 EST news269587078 It's a freezing cold day inside the National Ice Core Laboratory (NICL) in Denver, Colo., as it is every day of the year. That's because the NICL is a facility for storing and studying ice cores recovered from the polar regions of the world. It's minus 23.3 degrees Celsius (minus 10 degrees Fahrenheit) inside, so everyone is bundled up in ski parkas, insulated gloves and boots. And, saws are buzzing, as scientists from all over the U.S. are measuring and cutting pieces of precious Antarctic glacier ice to take back to their labs for research. http://phys.org/news268384725.html Space & Earth Tue, 02 Oct 2012 08:18:55 EST news268384725 Ice extended further across the UK than previously thought and played a part in sculpting the rocky landscape of Dartmoor in South West England during the last Ice Age, according to new research which challenges previously held theories. http://phys.org/news258744890.html Space & Earth Tue, 12 Jun 2012 19:00:07 EST news258744890 New clues as to how the Earth's remote ecosystems have been influenced by the industrial revolution are locked, frozen in the ice of glaciers. That is the finding of a group of scientists, including Robert Spencer of the Woods Hole Research Center. The research will be published in the March 2012 issue of Nature Geoscience. http://phys.org/news248870006.html Space & Earth Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:00:07 EST news248870006 A University of Colorado Boulder team is partnering with the United States Agency for International Development to assess snow and glacier contributions to water resources originating in the high mountains of Asia that straddle 10 countries. http://phys.org/news242399326.html Space & Earth Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:20:01 EST news242399326 Stronger ocean currents beneath West Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf are eroding the ice from below, speeding the melting of the glacier as a whole, according to a new study in Nature Geoscience. A growing cavity beneath the ice shelf has allowed more warm water to melt the ice, the researchers say—a process that feeds back into the ongoing rise in global sea levels. The glacier is currently sliding into the sea at a clip of four kilometers (2.5 miles) a year, while its ice shelf is melting at about 80 cubic kilometers a year - 50 percent faster than it was in the early 1990s - the paper estimates. http://phys.org/news228324328.html Space & Earth Sun, 26 Jun 2011 16:25:45 EST news228324328 Melting glaciers and ice caps on Canadian Arctic islands play a much greater role in sea level rise than scientists previously thought, according to a new study led by a University of Michigan researcher. http://phys.org/news222523521.html Space & Earth Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:05:39 EST news222523521 Melt off from small mountain glaciers and ice caps will contribute about 12 centimetres to world sea-level increases by 2100, according to UBC research published this week in Nature Geoscience. http://phys.org/news213877067.html Space & Earth Mon, 10 Jan 2011 10:18:03 EST news213877067 (AP) -- An island of ice more than four times the size of Manhattan is drifting across the Arctic Ocean after breaking off from a glacier in Greenland. http://phys.org/news200718828.html Space & Earth Wed, 11 Aug 2010 04:14:07 EST news200718828 New results from an investigation into Antarctica's potential contribution to sea level rise are reported this week (Sunday 20 June) by scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) and the National Oceanography Centre in the journal Nature Geoscience. http://phys.org/news196255601.html Space & Earth Sun, 20 Jun 2010 13:00:05 EST news196255601 (PhysOrg.com) -- Using nearly 50 years of data, University of Maine researchers have determined that subglacial floods in East Antarctica caused a rapid and short-lived acceleration of a major outlet glacier. http://phys.org/news146117002.html Space & Earth Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:03:22 EST news146117002