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Windsor Star, Canada: Antarctic ice shelf set to collapse
Washington :: DC :: USA | 9 months ago
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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 | about 1 year 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
Ice Sheet Breaks - Things are Really happening Faster
A chunk of ice spreading across 7 square miles (18 square kilometers) has broken off a Canadian ice shelf in the Arctic, scientists say. The sheet broke away last week from the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf off the north coast of Ellesmere Island in Canada's far...
Giant Arctic ice sheet snaps off
Toronto :: Canada | about 1 year ago
Credibility The 20 square kilometer ice sheet is believed to be the biggest ice chunk to fracture in the region since 2005, BBC reported...Disraeli Fjord which froze under the shelf; the fracture may have been caused by a change in process. Researchers warn that...
Tags: arctic, ice shelf, Ellesmere Island, broke away, ice sheet, shelf broke, ward hunt
Giant chunks break off Canadian ice shelf
Edmonton :: Canada | about 1 year ago
Credibility Scientists had already identified deep cracks in the Ward Hunt shelf, which measures around 400 square km. The shelf is one of five along Ellesmere Island in the northern Arctic. "Because the break-off occurred between two large parallel cracks they're...
Tags: arctic, global warming, ice sheet, ice shelf, Ellesmere Island
Antarctica has warmed before
Wellington :: New Zealand | about 1 year ago
Credibility Scientists drilling deep into Antarctica have uncovered evidence of a once-warm land, including pollen and algae, buried below the sea floor. Victoria University geologist Peter Barrett said the late American glaciologist John Mercer predicted warming...
Tags: antarctic, arctic, ice shelf, ice sheet, Antarctica, Antarctic Peninsula, global warming
Glacial lake transformed to titanic torrent
Nuuk :: Greenland | about 1 year ago
Credibility For an hour or so Greenland had it's own mighty waterfall, flowing secretly at three times the volume of Niagara. A meltwater lake on the surface of a glacier suddenly emptied in July 2006, sending millions of gallons of water through cracks in the ice...
Tags: ice sheet, ice sheets, Greenland, arctic, greenland ice, Niagara Falls, meltwater lake
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