Two new studies by researchers at the University of California, Irvine and NASA have found the fastest ongoing rates of glacier retreat ever observed in West Antarctica and offer an unprecedented look at ice melting on the ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 25, 2016
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Next week a British engineering team heads off to Antarctica for the first stage of an ambitious scientific mission to collect water and sediment samples from a lake buried beneath three kilometres of solid ice. This extraordinary ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 10, 2011
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Part of Antarctica has been losing ice to the ocean for far longer than had been expected, satellite pictures reveal.
Earth Sciences
Jun 1, 2016
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An Edinburgh student has helped identify what may be the largest volcanic region on Earth.
Earth Sciences
Aug 14, 2017
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By combining 25 years of European Space Agency satellite altimeter measurements and a model of the regional climate, the UK Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling (CPOM) have tracked changes in snow and ice cover across ...
Earth Sciences
May 16, 2019
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Researchers have discovered mountain ranges and three huge, deep subglacial valleys from data collected during the first modern aerogeophysical survey of the South Pole region.
Earth Sciences
May 25, 2018
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2016 continues to be a momentous year for Australia's climate, on track to be the new hottest year on record.
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Sep 29, 2016
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A new study has for the first time presented solid evidence that human-caused global warming is linked to melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Scientists already knew that periodically changing winds in the region have ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 13, 2019
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Central parts of Antarctica's ice sheet have been stable for millions of years, from a time when conditions were considerably warmer than now, research suggests.
Earth Sciences
May 5, 2017
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Nancy Bertler and her team took a freezer to the coldest place on Earth, endured weeks of primitive living and risked spending the winter in Antarctic darkness, to go get ice—ice that records our climate's past and could ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 6, 2013
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