News tagged with glacial ice
Wind shifts may stir CO2 from Antarctic depths
Natural releases of carbon dioxide from the Southern Ocean due to shifting wind patterns could have amplified global warming at the end of the last ice age--and could be repeated as manmade warming proceeds, ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 12, 2009 |
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New predictions for sea level rise
Fossil coral data and temperature records derived from ice-core measurements have been used to place better constraints on future sea level rise, and to test sea level projections.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 27, 2009 |
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Arctic climate may be more sensitive to warming than thought, says new study
A new study shows the Arctic climate system may be more sensitive to greenhouse warming than previously thought, and that current levels of Earth's atmospheric carbon dioxide may be high enough to bring about ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 29, 2010 |
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New model changes view of climate change
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using new, high-resolution global ocean circulation models, University of Massachusetts Amherst geoscientist Alan Condron, with Peter Winsor at the University of Alaska, report this week that ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 11, 2011 |
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'Super-river' formed the English Channel
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Anglo-French scientists studying sedimentary deposits in the Bay of Biscay have concluded that Britain and France were separated by a "super-river" during three periods of glaciations, ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 02, 2009 |
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New findings on why Antarctic ice sheets melt
Research from Victoria University has revealed new findings on why Antarctic ice sheets have melted in the past, as well as how future melting may affect sea levels.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 17, 2011 |
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A tiny frozen microbe may hold clues to extraterrestrial life
A novel bacterium that has been trapped more than three kilometres under glacial ice in Greenland for over 120 000 years, may hold clues as to what life forms might exist on other planets.
Jun 15, 2009 |
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Sea level is rising along US Atlantic coast, say environmental scientists
An international team of environmental scientists led by the University of Pennsylvania has shown that sea-level rise along the Atlantic Coast of the United States was 2 millimeters faster in the 20th century ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 10, 2009 |
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Sea Level Is Rising Along U.S. Atlantic Coast, According to New Data Analysis
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of environmental scientists led by the University of Pennsylvania has shown that sea-level rise along the Atlantic Coast of the United States was 2 millimeters faster in the 20th century ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 03, 2009 |
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West Antarctic ice sheet may not be losing ice as fast as once thought
New ground measurements made by the West Antarctic GPS Network (WAGN) project, composed of researchers from The University of Texas at Austin, The Ohio State University, and The University of Memphis, suggest ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Climate: New study slashes estimate of icecap loss
Estimates of the rate of ice loss from Greenland and West Antarctica, one of the most worrying questions in the global warming debate, should be halved, according to Dutch and US scientists.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 07, 2010 |
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Research shows how life might have survived 'snowball Earth'
Global glaciation likely put a chill on life on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago, but new research indicates that simple life in the form of photosynthetic algae could have survived in a narrow body ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 11, 2011 |
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Probing Question: How fast are the polar ice sheets melting?
The massive ice sheets that blanket Greenland and Antarctica are shrinking. According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, summer melt on the Greenland ice increased by 30 percent from 1979 to 2006. Though the situation ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 01, 2010 |
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Researchers provide detailed picture of ice loss following the collapse of Antarctic ice shelves
An international team of researchers has combined data from multiple sources to provide the clearest account yet of how much glacial ice surges into the sea following the collapse of Antarctic ice shelves.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 25, 2011 |
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Some Antarctic ice is forming from bottom
Scientists working in the remotest part of Antarctica have discovered that liquid water locked deep under the continent's coat of ice regularly thaws and refreezes to the bottom, creating as much as half the ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 03, 2011 |
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