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World's largest ice sheet melting faster than expected
Nuuk :: Greenland | about 12 hours ago
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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, ice loss, Greenland, Nuuk, Oceanography, Pleistocene, Interglacial, Antarctica, Eemian, Glaciology, Climate change, Ice ages, Environment, Ice sheets, West Antarctic Ice Sheet, Antarctic ice sheet, Current sea level rise, Global warming, Effects of global warming, Sea level
The Splendor of Greenland's Ice Sheet Crumbling Away [Megaenvironmentalism]
Nuuk :: Greenland | 8 days ago
Credibility For the past several years, scientists have been tracking the transformation of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Now it's shrinking faster than ever, and a new study proves it has lost 1500 gigatons of mass from 2000 to 2008. That is an enormous amount of mass,...
Tags: sea level, ice sheet, Greenland, Nuuk, Greenland ice sheet, Current sea level rise, Climate change, Glaciology, Oceanography, Environment
Greenland ice loss 'accelerating'
Nuuk :: Greenland | 10 days ago
Credibility Published in the journal Science, it has also given scientists a clearer view of why the sheet is shrinking. The team used weather data, satellite readings and models of ice sheet behaviour to analyse the annual loss of 273 thousand million tonnes of...
Tags: Greenland, ice sheet, ice loss, Nuuk, Oceanography, Ice sheets, Greenland ice sheet, Current sea level rise, Sea level, Climate change, Glaciology, Effects of global warming, Environment, Glacier, Physical oceanography
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
Rising CO2 to trigger ice sheet collapse
Auckland :: New Zealand | 8 months ago
Credibility Antarctica's vulnerable western ice sheet, scientists said. The massive land mass known as western Antarctica was thought to be unstable, but a study by New Zealand, American and European researchers published today reveals details about just how volatile...
Tags: antarctic ice, West Antarctica, ice sheet, sea level, global sea, ice melted, raising sea, sheet collapsed, ocean temperatures, Earth
San Francisco Bay vulnerable to rising waters
Nuuk :: Greenland | 8 months ago
Credibility The economic threat to the state's 1,000 miles of coastline between Oregon and Mexico is of concern, but is dwarfed by the threat to the bay's shoreline, where a history of filling wetlands and building on them could be reversed by a rising sea. "No one...
Tags: sea level, climate change, Greenland, global warming, rise sea, California, ice melt, ice sheet, level rise
Windsor Star, Canada: Antarctic ice shelf set to collapse
Washington :: DC :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility A huge Antarctic ice shelf is on the brink of collapse with just a sliver of ice holding it in place, the latest victim of global warming that is altering maps of the frozen continent. "We've come to the Wilkins Ice Shelf to see its final death throes,"...
Tags: West Antarctica, ice sheet, antarctic ice, sea level
2 °C rise could spark meltdown
Nuuk :: Greenland | 12 months ago
Credibility A less than 2 °C rise in global temperatures might be sufficient to spark a meltdown of the Greenland Ice Sheet and Arctic sea ice, the WWF warned in a new study released on Thursday. "Scientists now suggest that even warming of less than 2 °C might be...
Tags: ice sheet, melting, ice sheets
Climate change clues buried in ice 1.2m years old
Ross :: OH :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Antarctic conservation mission in history this month to find the planet's oldest ice and unravel the mysteries of climate change. A team of scientists, engineers and pilots from Britain, the US, Germany, Australia, China and Japan will join forces...They...
Tags: climate change, arctic, ice sheet
Queensland Courier-Mail: Meltdown: Fears for Greenland icesheet
Nuuk :: Greenland | about 1 year ago
Credibility Greenland icesheet, a prospect once merely the preserve of doomsayers. Such melting would see much of the world's coastline drowned by rising seas. The researchers found that the great Laurentide icesheet which smothered much of North America during the...
Tags: ice sheet, global warming, melting, sea level, ice sheets, Greenland, arctic
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