Subglacial lakes in Antarctica might have nutrient-rich groundwater flowing into them, say scientists investigating the origin of the water in ice streams.
Earth Sciences
May 22, 2014
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An international team of scientists has discovered that the last remaining stable portion of the Greenland ice sheet is stable no more.
Environment
Mar 16, 2014
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(Phys.org) —A trio of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Rutgers University has concluded that there is a correlation between extreme weather in the mid-northern latitudes and warmer weather in the Arctic. ...
A new study offers an explanation for the extraordinary run of wet summers experienced by Britain and northwest Europe between 2007 and 2012. The study found that loss of Arctic sea ice shifts the jet stream further south ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 28, 2013
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According to researchers from ETH Zurich and the University of Miami, some of the largest ocean eddies on Earth are mathematically equivalent to the mysterious black holes of space. These eddies are so tightly shielded by ...
Soft Matter
Sep 23, 2013
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Artificial gas tracers pumped into water at the surface of the Greenland ice sheet have revealed a hidden network of rivers flowing beneath it.
Earth Sciences
Mar 12, 2013
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The Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf fringing the Weddell Sea, Antarctica, may start to melt rapidly in this century and no longer act as a barrier for ice streams draining the Antarctic Ice Sheet. These predictions are made by climate ...
Earth Sciences
May 9, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Some of the earliest evidence of prehistoric architecture has been discovered in the Jordanian desert, providing archaeologists with a new perspective on how humans lived 20,000 years ago.
Archaeology
Feb 20, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using new, high-resolution global ocean circulation models, University of Massachusetts Amherst geoscientist Alan Condron, with Peter Winsor at the University of Alaska, report this week that massive glacial ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 11, 2011
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An international research collaboration (EGRIP) headed by ice core scientists from the University of Copenhagen has attained their goal of drilling to the bottom of the ice sheet. It marks the first time that this has been ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 31, 2023
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