The miniature radio frequency (min-RF) radar instrument aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is revealing some interesting things about how impact melts form around craters on the Moon. Impacts produce a crater, ...
Space Exploration
Mar 5, 2012
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In a warming climate, the sustainability of cryospheric meltwater on the Tibetan Plateau has raised concerns because of its importance for the fragile ecosystem in the headwater regions and the dense populations in the downstream. ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 7, 2023
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Global warming is changing the Arctic by causing permafrost thaw, glacier melt, droughts, fires and changes in vegetation. These developments are strongly linked to the energy exchange between land and the atmosphere. Researchers ...
Environment
Oct 31, 2022
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Polarstern is expected back from the Central Arctic expedition "IceArc" in Bremerhaven on 8 October 2012 after a good two months. 54 scientists and technicians from twelve different countries conducted research on the retreat ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 10, 2012
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This is it, we have reached the bottom of the glacier. It is 327m under our feet. After drilling into the ice for six hours, our hot-water jet blasts into the sediment. The hose that connects it to the surface stops rolling ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 29, 2022
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All regions of the world saw water extremes last year—both floods and droughts—and billions of people had insufficient freshwater, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
Environment
Nov 29, 2022
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