Cracking the mystery of nitrogen ice dynamics on Pluto
Scientists have unraveled a fascinating new insight into how the landscape of the dwarf-planet Pluto has formed.
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Ancient sea ice core sheds light on modern climate change
A 170 m record of marine sediment cores extracted from Adélie Land in Antarctica by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Programme is yielding new insights into the complicated relationship between sea ice and climate change.
Earth Sciences
Sep 9, 2021
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Rise and fall of water blisters offers glimpse beneath Greenland's thick ice sheet
Water "blisters" trapped beneath the thick interior of Greenland's ice sheet could provide critical insight into the hydrological network coursing deep below Earth's second largest body of ice—and how it might be destabilized ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 24, 2021
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Rain on Greenland ice sheet signals climate change risk
Rain fell at the highest point on Greenland's ice sheet—possibly for the first time—in an event Danish scientists on Monday said was most likely driven by climate change.
Environment
Aug 23, 2021
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No good news here: Key IPCC findings on climate change
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's first major scientific assessment since 2014, released Monday, shows unequivocally that global warming is unfolding more quickly than feared and that humanity is almost entirely ...
Environment
Aug 9, 2021
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To de-ice planes on the fly, researchers aim to control rather than combat ice formation
How do you control ice formation on a plane, even when it's in flight? Jonathan Boreyko, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, is leading a team working with Collins Aerospace to develop an approach ...
General Physics
Jul 26, 2021
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Antarctic lake suddenly disappears
A global team of scientists including several from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego discovered the sudden demise of a large, deep, ice-covered lake on the surface of an Antarctic ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 25, 2021
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World's largest iceberg breaks off Antarctica: European Space Agency
A huge ice block has broken off from western Antarctica into the Weddell Sea, becoming the largest iceberg in the world and earning the name A-76.
Environment
May 20, 2021
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Icebreaker's cyclone encounter reveals faster sea ice decline
In August 2016 a massive storm on par with a Category 2 hurricane churned in the Arctic Ocean. The cyclone led to the third-lowest sea ice extent ever recorded. But what made the Great Arctic Cyclone of 2016 particularly ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 29, 2021
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New study: Thick sea-ice warms Greenland fjords
A new study led by Stockholm University Assistant Professor Christian Stranne shows that thick sea ice outside the fjords can actually increase the sensitivity of Greenlandic fjords to warming. Stranne and a team of researchers ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 12, 2021
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