The Alps are steadily "growing" by about one to two millimeters per year. Likewise, the formerly glaciated subcontinents of North America and Scandinavia are also undergoing constant upward movement. This is due to the fact ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 10, 2016
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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.
Environment
Jun 11, 2010
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An icebreaker is on its way from Australia to an Antarctic research station to rescue an expeditioner suffering from a medical condition, the government said on Saturday.
Earth Sciences
Sep 3, 2023
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NASA captured 20 years of changing seasons in a striking new global map of the home planet.
Earth Sciences
Nov 17, 2017
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When Earth's species were rapidly diversifying nearly 500 million years ago, that evolution was driven by complex factors including global cooling, more oxygen in the atmosphere, and more nutrients in the oceans. But it took ...
Archaeology
Aug 15, 2019
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Sunlight in, reflected and emitted energy out. That's the fundamental energy balance sheet for our planet. If Earth's clouds, oceans, ice caps and land surfaces send as much energy back up to space as the sun shines down ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 28, 2021
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Greenland may be best known for its enormous continental scale ice sheet that soars up to 3,000 meters above sea level, whose rapid melting is a leading contributor to global sea level rise. But surrounding this massive ice ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 9, 2021
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During the past decade, Antarctica's massive ice sheet lost twice the amount of ice in its western portion compared with what it accumulated in the east, according to Princeton University researchers who came to one overall ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 30, 2015
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Experts warned of a "planetary emergency" due to the unforeseen global consequences of Arctic ice melt, including methane gas released from permafrost regions currently under ice.
Earth Sciences
Sep 20, 2012
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In the last few years, the Vavilov Ice Cap in the Russian High Arctic has dramatically accelerated, sliding as much as 82 feet a day in 2015, according to a new multi-national, multi-institute study led by CIRES Fellow Mike ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 19, 2018
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