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Melting in Antarctica is worst in 1,000 years
Doha :: Qatar | 1 month ago
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14 25,000 km2 of ice has been lost from floating ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula in the last 50 years. [EPA] For the first time, scientists have managed to demonstrate that ten times more ice melts in the summer months on the Antarctic
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The only animal guided by the Milky Way, and other science news
Nuuk :: Greenland | 4 months ago
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The Globe and Mail Published Sunday, Jan. 27 2013, 4:09 PM EST Last updated Sunday, Jan. 27 2013, 4:13 PM EST A roundup of some of the week's science headlines: Star light, star bright: A species of South African dung beetle has been shown to use the
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Ice core drill gives insight into climate future
Nuuk :: Greenland | 4 months ago
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Scientists say an ice core taken from almost three kilometres down in the Greenland ice sheet has given them an extraordinary vision of what the planet could look like as it heats up. The ice core dates from the last warming period around 120,000
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We are about to find out what lurks in an Antarctic lake sealed under 2.2 miles of ice
Moscow :: Russia | 4 months ago
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You may recall that last year, a Russian research team drilled over 2 miles into the Antarctic ice sheet to reach Lake Vostok, a massive body of water that has been cut off from the world for possibly millions of years. Yes, it sounds exactly like
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Cool Find: Russian team takes ice from biggest Antarctic sub-glacial lake, searching for life
Saint Petersburg :: Russia | 4 months ago
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Truly mind-blowing for modern science, the 20-million-year-old Antarctic lake drilling is a life-or-death trial for explorers believes RT's correspondent Sean Thomas, who covered some research on the icy continent...The finding is of great value as
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Australia to lead ice core drill project
Sydney :: Australia | 5 months ago
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Antarctica to advance the search for the scientific "holy grail" of the million-year ice core. Environment Minister Tony Burke on Saturday announced the Aurora Basin North project, which will drill a 40-metre deep ice core 600km inland from Casey
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Weatherwatch: Would modern humans survive a volcanic winter?
Toba :: Japan | 6 months ago
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Ash and smoke spewed from Popocatepetl Volcano in Mexico in April this year. Would modern humans survive a volcanic winter like our ancestors did? Photograph: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty Images Some 74,000 years ago an Indonesian super-volcano
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Mount Kilimanjaro may be ice free by 2060
Dar es Salaam :: Tanzania | 6 months ago
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The peaks of Mount Kilimanjaro, the world's highest free-standing mountain, could be gone by 2060, scientists have claimed...Kimberly Casey, a glaciologist based at the US space agency's Goddard Space Flight Centre, who visited the mountain earlier
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Himalayan glaciers melting more rapidly
Kathmandu :: Nepal | 10 months ago
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He and his colleagues drilled ice cores from deep within the glacier in 2006. An ice core provides detailed climate records that can extend over hundreds of thousands of years. Also in 2006, we observed cyoconite holes in the glacier all the way to
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Everything You Know About Paleo-Climate May Be Wrong
London :: United Kingdom | 11 months ago
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But the methodcomparing the ratio of oxygen isotopes buried as snow fell over millenniamay not be such a straightforward indicator of air temperature. We don't believe the ice cores can be interpreted purely as a signal of temperature, says Anders
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