News tagged with ice caps
Study shows global glaciers, ice caps, shedding billions of tons of mass annually
Earth's glaciers and ice caps outside of the regions of Greenland and Antarctica are shedding roughly 150 billion tons of ice annually, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 08, 2012 |
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Arctic sea ice continues decline, hits 2nd-lowest level
(PhysOrg.com) -- Last month the extent of sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean declined to the second-lowest extent on record. Satellite data from NASA and the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 05, 2011 |
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Da Vinci sketch recreated on melting Arctic ice
An artist has recreated Leonardo da Vinci's most famous sketch "Vitruvian Man" in the Arctic ice to draw attention to the ice melt, Greenpeace said Wednesday.
Sep 07, 2011 |
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Out of thin Martian air
A wet Mars is just a memory, but where did the water go?
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 23, 2011 |
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Arctic ice cap near 2007 record minimum: Russia
The polar ice cap in the Arctic has melted to near its 2007 record minimum level and in some areas is 50 percent smaller than average, Russia's environmental monitoring agency said Thursday.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 04, 2011 |
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Melting ice on Arctic islands a major player in sea level rise
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.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 20, 2011 |
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Ancient fossils hold clues for predicting future climate change, scientists report
(PhysOrg.com) -- By studying fossilized mollusks from some 3.5 million years ago, UCLA geoscientists and colleagues have been able to construct an ancient climate record that holds clues about the long-term ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 08, 2011 |
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Satellite Used in Polar Research Enters Retirement
(PhysOrg.com) -- After a long career providing communications support, NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) 1 is retiring. From 1983 to 1998, TDRS-1 allowed NASA to talk to other satellites in orbit. ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 25, 2010 |
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Strange Martian Spirals Explained
Almost 40 years ago, NASA's Mariner 9 spacecraft relayed to Earth the first video images of Mars' northern polar ice cap, revealing a strange pattern of spiral swirls that has puzzled scientists ever since. ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 16, 2010 |
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Europe, US to see snowy, cold winters: expert
Europe, North America and east Asia can expect more cold, moist and snowy winters such as the one just passed, a top scientist said Friday.
Jun 11, 2010 |
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Planetary scientists solve 40-year-old mysteries of Mars' northern ice cap
Scientists have reconstructed the formation of two curious features in the northern ice cap of Mars—a chasm larger than the Grand Canyon and a series of spiral troughs—solving a pair of mysteries dating back ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 26, 2010 |
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Decades of research show massive Arctic ice cap is shrinking
Close to 50 years of data show the Devon Island ice cap, one of the largest ice masses in the Canadian High Arctic, is thinning and shrinking.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 12, 2010 |
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Deep in sediments off Antarctica, Stanford scientists find insight into past -- and possible future -- climates
(PhysOrg.com) -- From the Antarctic Ocean, Earth scientist Rob Dunbar blogs about the challenges of drilling ancient deep-sea sediments -- and what he's found in them.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 18, 2010 |
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Japan aims to bury greenhouse gas emissions
Swathes of dirty clouds brood over a coal plant in rural Japan, but scientists are now hoping to send the pollutants the other way, deep into the bowels of Mother Earth.
Nov 01, 2009 |
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Arctic ice cap 'to disappear in future summers'
The Arctic ice cap will disappear completely in summer months within 20 to 30 years, a polar research team said as they presented findings from an expedition led by adventurer Pen Hadow.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 15, 2009 |
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