When one thinks of the damage that climate change is doing, it's probable that what comes to mind is a vision of huge lumps of ice dropping off one of the polar ice sheets and crashing into the ocean. While Greenland and ...
Planetary Sciences
Apr 27, 2023
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Atomic clocks, combined with precise astronomical measurements, have revealed that the length of a day is suddenly getting longer, and scientists don't know why.
Planetary Sciences
Aug 5, 2022
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Extreme cooling events during the last glacial period, known as Heinrich events in the North Atlantic, are a good example of how local processes change the global climate. While the impacts of Heinrich events on the global ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 26, 2022
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Scientists have documented a previously unknown subpopulation of polar bears living in Southeast Greenland. The polar bears survive with limited access to sea ice by hunting from freshwater ice that pours into the ocean from ...
Ecology
Jun 16, 2022
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Ice shelves are floating extensions of glaciers. If Greenland's second largest ice shelf breaks up, it may not recover unless Earth's future climate cools considerably. This is the result of a new study, published in Nature ...
Environment
May 9, 2022
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To document large-scale transformations on Earth, such as waning ice sheets and shifting coastlines, geoscientists often use views from space to track mass changes on daily to decadal timescales.
Planetary Sciences
Mar 24, 2022
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Melting glaciers and polar ice sheets are among the dominant sources of sea-level rise, yet until now, the water beneath them has remained hidden from airborne ice-penetrating radar.
Earth Sciences
May 20, 2021
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Icebergs are melting faster than current models describe, according to a new study by mathematicians at the University of Sydney. The researchers have proposed a new model to more accurately represent the melt speed of icebergs ...
General Physics
Feb 16, 2021
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The rate at which ice is disappearing across the planet is speeding up, according to new research.
Earth Sciences
Jan 25, 2021
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Sea level could rise higher than current estimates by 2100 if climate change is unchallenged, according to a new assessment.
Earth Sciences
Dec 18, 2020
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