Scientists and games developers have joined forces to help communicate the impact of climate change on the Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Earth Sciences
Aug 23, 2016
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Fresh understanding of West Antarctica has revealed how the region's ice sheet could become unstable in a warming world.
Earth Sciences
Aug 22, 2016
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The phrase "tipping point" passed its own tipping point and caught fire after author Malcolm Gladwell's so-named 2000 book. It's now frequently used in discussions about climate change, but what are "climate tipping points"? ...
Environment
Jul 11, 2016
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Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica is currently one of the single biggest contributors to sea-level rise with an estimated volume loss of 1.2mm sea-level equivalent per decade. The loss is caused, at least partly, by ...
Earth Sciences
May 19, 2016
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Current rates of climate change could trigger instability in a major Antarctic glacier, ultimately leading to more than 2m of sea-level rise.
Earth Sciences
May 18, 2016
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Successive radar images captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1A satellite during December 2014 – March 2016 were used to create this spectacular map showing how fast the ice flows on the Antarctic Peninsula. The map was ...
Earth Sciences
May 11, 2016
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The Antarctic ice sheet, with a thickness of up to 4800 meter, has lost mass in the recent years. This was confirmed by a variety of scientific studies. Scientists of the Institut für Planetare Geodäsie of TU Dresden now ...
Earth Sciences
May 10, 2016
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Three recent publications by early career researchers at three different institutions across the country provide the first look into the biogeochemistry, geophysics and geology of Subglacial Lake Whillans, which lies 800 ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 29, 2016
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The predictions only get worse. In 2007, a United Nations panel of scientists studying the rise of sea level related to climate change predicted that, if nothing was done to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, seas could rise ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 8, 2016
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A new study from climate scientists Robert DeConto at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and David Pollard at Pennsylvania State University suggests that the most recent estimates by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 30, 2016
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