News tagged with ice sheet
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Melting threat from West Antarctic Ice Sheet less than previously believed
(PhysOrg.com) -- While a total or partial collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet as a result of warming would not raise global sea levels as high as some predict, levels on the U.S. seaboards would rise 25 percent more ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 14, 2009 |
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New Antarctic seabed sonar images reveal clues to sea-level rise
Motorway-sized troughs and channels carved into Antarctica's continental shelves by glaciers thousands of years ago could help scientists to predict future sea-level rise according to a report in the journal ...
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May 05, 2009 |
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Tahiti corals clue to 'dynamic' glaciers
(PhysOrg.com) -- Fossilised corals from tropical Tahiti show that the behaviour of ice sheets is much more volatile and dynamic than previously thought, a team led by Oxford University scientists has found.
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Apr 24, 2009 |
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Catastrophic sea levels 'distinct possibility' this century: study
A breakthrough study of fluctuations in sea levels the last time Earth was between ice ages, as it is now, shows that oceans rose some three meters in only decades due to collapsing ice sheets.
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Apr 15, 2009 |
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NASA flies to Greenland to extend polar science
Imagine a piece of ice 1,000 miles long, 400 miles wide, and 2 miles thick in the center. That's the Greenland ice sheet. But that island-sized piece of ice is melting, so NASA researchers are flying to the ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 31, 2009 |
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Dust may settle unanswered questions on Antarctica
Dust trapped deep in Antarctic ice sheets is helping scientists unravel details of past climate change.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 29, 2009 |
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Linking Climate Change in Siberia and Britain
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have for first time demonstrated a critical link between the Siberian climate and the circulation of the major current system which gives us our mild winters here in the UK. This new understanding ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 23, 2009 |
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West Antarctic ice comes and goes, rapidly
Researchers today worry about the collapse of West Antarctic ice shelves and loss of the West Antarctic ice sheet, but little is known about the past movements of this ice. Now climatologists from Penn State ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 18, 2009 |
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Robot sub searches for signs of melting 60 km into an Antarctic ice shelf cavity
Autosub, a robot submarine built and developed by the UK's National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, has successfully completed a high-risk campaign of six missions travelling under an Antarctic glacier.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 17, 2009 |
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Rising sea levels set to have major impacts around the world
Research presented today at the International Scientific Congress on Climate Change in Copenhagen shows that the upper range of sea level rise by 2100 could be in the range of about one meter, or possibly more. In the lower ...
Mar 10, 2009 |
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Final frontier: Mission to explore buried ancient Antarctic lake given green light
An international team of scientists led by the UK has been given the go-ahead to explore one of the planet's last great frontiers - an ancient lake hidden deep beneath Antarctica's ice sheet. Buried under ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 02, 2009 |
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Team confirms Alps-like mountain range under East Antarctic Ice Sheet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Flying twin-engine light aircraft the equivalent of several trips around the globe and establishing a network of seismic instruments across an area the size of Texas, a U.S.-led, international ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 24, 2009 |
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Greenland and Antarctic ice sheet melting, rate unknown
The Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets are melting, but the amounts that will melt and the time it will take are still unknown, according to Richard Alley, Evan Pugh professor of geosciences, Penn State.
Feb 16, 2009 |
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Scientists say Antarctic climate evidence too strong to ignore
(PhysOrg.com) -- More than 50 top international polar scientists will meet at Victoria University of Wellington this week to discuss their cutting-edge climate change research.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 09, 2009 |
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Sea level rise could be worse than anticipated
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 ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 05, 2009 |
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