Drawing on international research, Professor Tim Naish from Victoria University of Wellington's Antarctic Research Centre took the second Pacific Climate Change Conference, co-hosted by Victoria and the Secretariat of the ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 2, 2018
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Over the past few years, a large fracture has grown across a large floating ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula. The world is watching the ice shelf, now poised to break off an iceberg the size of Delaware into the ocean.
Earth Sciences
Jan 13, 2017
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The amount of heat flowing toward the base of the West Antarctic ice sheet from geothermal sources deep within the Earth is surprisingly high, according to a new study led by UC Santa Cruz researchers. The results, published ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 10, 2015
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In a discovery that raises further concerns about the future contribution of Antarctica to sea level rise, a new study finds that the western part of the ice sheet is experiencing nearly twice as much warming as previously ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 23, 2012
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More than merely cracks in the ice, crevasses play an important role in circulating seawater beneath Antarctic ice shelves, potentially influencing their stability, finds Cornell University-led research based on a first-of-its-kind ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 27, 2023
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Marking Halloween, we bring you this recent Copernicus Sentinel-2 image of the Halloween Crack in Antarctica.
Earth Sciences
Oct 31, 2022
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By the second half of this century, rising air temperatures above the Weddell Sea could set off a self-amplifying meltwater feedback cycle under the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, ultimately causing the second-largest ice shelf ...
Earth Sciences
May 11, 2017
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The ice shelves—the marine-terminating glaciers of the Antarctic Ice Sheet—are melting, and it's not just because of rising atmospheric temperatures. In a one-two punch, ice shelves in Antarctica are fighting a losing ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 25, 2023
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New research has revealed that more ice leaves Antarctica by melting from the underside of submerged ice shelves than was previously thought, accounting for as much as 90 per cent of ice loss in some areas.
Earth Sciences
Sep 15, 2013
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Far beneath the ice shelves of the Antarctic, there is more marine life than expected, finds a recent study in the journal Current Biology, published this week.
Ecology
Dec 20, 2021
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