New research has led to a warning from a leading Antarctic expert that the world is on track for massive sea level rises resulting from the melting of an ice sheet.
Earth Sciences
Mar 11, 2016
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At the current rate of retreat the vast glaciers, which extend deep into the heart of the ice sheet, could contribute as much as 3.4 meters to global sea level rise over the next several centuries.
Earth Sciences
Jun 9, 2022
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Antarctic ice is melting, contributing massive amounts of water to the world's seas and causing them to rise—but that melt is not as linear and consistent as scientists previously thought, a new analysis of 20 years' worth ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 1, 2021
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The link between declining CO2 levels in the earth's atmosphere and the formation of the Antarctic ice caps some 34 million years ago has been confirmed for the first time in a major research study.
Earth Sciences
Sep 13, 2009
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The world's largest canyon may lie under the Antarctic ice sheet, according to analysis of satellite data by a team of scientists, led by Durham University.
Earth Sciences
Jan 13, 2016
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An international team of researchers has found that the Antarctic Ice Sheet plays a major role in regional and global climate variability - a discovery that may also help explain why sea ice in the Southern Hemisphere has ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 12, 2016
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If global warming some day causes the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to collapse, as many experts believe it could, the resulting sea level rise in much of the United States and other parts of the world would be significantly higher ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 5, 2009
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For more than a century scientists have known that Earth's ice ages are caused by the wobbling of the planet's orbit, which changes its orientation to the sun and affects the amount of sunlight reaching higher latitudes, ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 14, 2013
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By studying rocks at different elevations beside the East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS), the team concluded that a period of rapid glacier thinning occurred in the recent geological past, and persisted for several centuries.
Earth Sciences
Nov 28, 2015
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Rising ocean temperatures drove the melting of Antarctic ice sheets and caused extreme sea level rise more than 100,000 years ago, a new international study led by UNSW Sydney shows.
Earth Sciences
Feb 12, 2020
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