News tagged with greenland ice cores
Evidence of past Southern hemisphere rainfall cycles related to Antarctic temperatures
Geoscientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the University of Minnesota this week published the first evidence that warm-cold climate oscillations well known in the Northern Hemisphere over ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 17, 2012 |
5 / 5 (3) |
0
|
800,000 years of Greenland's abrupt climate variability
An international team of scientists, led by Dr Stephen Barker of Cardiff University, has produced a prediction of what climate records from Greenland might look like over the last 800,000 years.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 08, 2011 |
4.2 / 5 (12) |
19
|
Climate played big role in Vikings' disappearance from Greenland
The end of the Norse settlements on Greenland likely will remain shrouded in mystery. While there is scant written evidence of the colony's demise in the 14th and early 15th centuries, archaeological remains ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 30, 2011 |
4.3 / 5 (7) |
4
|
Bedrock is a milestone in climate research
After years of concentrated effort, scientists from the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (NEEM) project hit bedrock more than 8,300 feet below the surface of the Greenland ice sheet last week. The project ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 04, 2010 |
5 / 5 (3) |
1
Ice core drilling effort to help assess abrupt climate change risks
An international science team involving the University of Colorado at Boulder that is working on the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling project hit bedrock July 27 after two summers of work, drilling down ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 02, 2010 |
4.4 / 5 (5) |
0
Absence of evidence for a meteorite impact event 13,000 years ago
An international team of scientists led by researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa have found no evidence supporting an extraterrestrial impact event at the onset of the Younger Dryas ~13000 years ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 08, 2009 |
4.1 / 5 (17) |
13
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 |
3.7 / 5 (13) |
0
As Greenland melts
Not that long ago - the blink of a geologic eye - global temperatures were so warm that ice on Greenland could have been hard to come by. Today, the largest island in the world is covered with ice 1.6 miles ...
Oct 19, 2009 |
2.5 / 5 (8) |
3
International Greenland Ice Coring Effort Sets New Drilling Record in 2009
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new international research effort on the Greenland ice sheet with the University of Colorado at Boulder as the lead U.S. institution set a record for single-season deep ice-core drilling ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 26, 2009 |
3.7 / 5 (3) |
2
Searching for an interglacial on Greenland
The first season of the international drilling project NEEM (North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling) in north-western Greenland was completed at August 20th.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 24, 2009 |
4 / 5 (2) |
1
New proxy reveals how humans have disrupted the nitrogen cycle
More and more, scientists are getting a better grip on the nitrogen cycle. They are learning about sources of nitrogen and how this element changes as it loops from the nonliving, such as the atmosphere, soil ...
Jun 04, 2009 |
2.6 / 5 (7) |
0
Scientists Return from Expedition to Drill Beneath Frozen Russian Lake
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists from the United States, Germany, Russia and Austria has just returned from a six-month drilling expedition to a frozen lake in Siberia: Lake El'gygytgyn, "Lake E" for ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 28, 2009 |
4.7 / 5 (7) |
0
