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THE Washington Post's Juliet Eilperin reports that American negotiators will bring an emissions reduction target with them to the Copenhagen climate-change talks, even though Congress won't yet have passed the cap-and-trade legislation that turns such...
Tags: Polar ice packs, ice sheet, Glaciology, East Antarctic, Global warming, antarctic ice, Climate change, Senate Republicans, Environment, change sceptics, Juliet Eilperin, sea level, allnews, Barack Obama, Washington, West Antarctic Ice Sheet, If, Antarctic ice sheet, American, East Antarctic Ice Sheet
Massive icebergs heading to New Zealand
Wellington :: New Zealand | 5 days ago
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New Zealand is preparing for some rare spring visitors. More than 100 icebergs that were first spotted off the coast of Macquarie Island, an Australian territory around 900 miles south east of Tasmania, are now thought to be only 200 miles away from New...
Tags: New Zealand, South Pacific, Antarctica, Stewart Island, ice shelves, antarctic ice, NZPA, Wellington, Environment, Iceberg, Physical oceanography, Ice shelves of Antarctica, Iceberg B-15, Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, Icebergs, Ice, Sea ice, Ice shelf, Glaciology, Disaster Accident
Warming diagnosis: beyond worst case
Nuuk :: Greenland | 6 days ago
Credibility KEY climate change measures are tracking near or beyond worse-case scenarios predicted just two years ago, according to a science update drawing on more than 200 recently published studies. Co-authored by 26 climate scientists, The Copenhagen Diagnosis...
Tags: ice sheets, antarctic ice, West Antarctic, East Antarctic, Greenland, Nuuk, Environment, Climate change, Global warming, Effects of global warming, Current sea level rise, West Antarctic Ice Sheet, Carbon finance, IPCC Third Assessment Report, East Antarctic Ice Sheet, Greenland ice sheet, Global cooling, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Tipping point, Antarctic ice sheet, Scientific opinion on climate change, Glaciology, Greenhouse gases, Ice sheet
World's largest ice sheet melting faster than expected
Nuuk :: Greenland | 7 days ago
Credibility The world's largest ice sheet has started to melt along its coastal fringes, raising fears that global sea levels will rise faster than scientists expected. The East Antarctic ice sheet, which makes up three-quarters of the continent's 14,000 sq km, is...
Tags: West Antarctica, ice sheet, antarctic ice, East Antarctic, losing mass, ice loss, Greenland, Nuuk, Environment, Climate change, Oceanography, Glaciology, Antarctic ice sheet, Global warming, Current sea level rise, West Antarctic Ice Sheet, Ice sheets, Sea level, Greenland ice sheet, Interglacial, Effects of global warming, Antarctica, Eemian, Glaciers of Antarctica, Ice ages, Pleistocene
Ship heads for port after being stranded in Antarctic ice
Ushuaia :: Argentina | 12 days ago
Credibility But in the end they came a little too close for comfort to the legendary explorer's footsteps than they would have liked...While his mission was to conquer the Antarctic, the tourists travelling with adventure holiday company Exodus were booked on the...
Tags: antarctic, tourists, icebreaker, penguin, Antarctica, penguins, travel, Russian, cruise ship, antarctic ice, Argentina, Ushuaia, West Antarctica, Antarctic Peninsula, Chilean Antarctica, Argentine Antarctica, British Antarctic Territory, Flightless birds, Environment, Ship, Kapitan Khlebnikov, Weddell Sea, Weddell, Drift ice, Voyage of the James Caird, McMurdo Sound, Hospitality Recreation, Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, Endurance, Ernest Shackleton, MS Holiday, Cruise ships, Cruise lines, Disney Cruise Line
Mountains hidden under Antarctic ice revealed by radar map
Edinburgh :: United Kingdom | 5 months ago
Credibility Antarctic mountains hidden beneath thousands of metres of ice have been mapped in detail for the first time. One of Antarctica’s highest mountain ranges, located in the centre of the continent, shows remarkable similarities to the Alps, with steep cliffs,...
Tags: antarctic ice, Antarctica, European Alps
Sea rise from ice melt 'overestimated'
Bristol :: United Kingdom | 6 months ago
Credibility West Antarctic ice sheet will have devastating impacts on global sea levels, a study has found the anticipated impact has been seriously overestimated. Using new measures of the ice sheet's geometry, British and Dutch researchers predict its collapse...
Tags: sea level, ice sheets, West Antarctica, antarctic ice, global sea, New York Times, Western Antarctic, level rise, sheets melting, global warming
Doomed ice shelf is breaking
Berlin :: Germany | 7 months ago
Credibility A huge ice shelf that has wrenched away from the Antarctic peninsula has started to fracture into icebergs, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Tuesday. "Satellite images show that icebergs have begun to calve (break away) from the northern front...
Tags: Wilkins Ice Shelf, British Antarctic Survey, Antarctica, Southwest Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctic peninsula, antarctic ice
Ancient ecosystem under a glacier
Washington :: DC :: USA | 7 months ago
Credibility The rusty water comes from a subterranean pool where bacteria have been isolated for up to 2 million years. Photograph: Science An ancient ecosystem that has thrived in isolation for millions of years has been discovered in a pool of dark, salty water...
Tags: Antarctica, East Antarctic, antarctic glacier, antarctic ice, ancient ecosystem, ice sheet, iron compounds
Breakaway ice shelf will reshape map of Antarctic
Oslo :: Norway | 7 months ago
Credibility A vast Antarctic ice shelf is in danger of collapsing after the ice bridge that pinned it to land shattered. The Wilkins ice shelf would be the largest slab of ice to be lost by Antarctica in recent times, in what researchers say is a sign of how global...
Tags: antarctic ice, ice bridge, Antarctica
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