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Winds drive icebergs away from New Zealand
Wellington :: New Zealand | 2 days ago
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New Zealand — Strong westerly winds in the southern Pacific Ocean have driven scores of icebergs originally headed toward New Zealand to the east, away from the country, an oceanographer said Tuesday. A shipping alert was sent out last week and maritime...
Tags: New Zealand, Wellington, Environment, Iceberg, Physical oceanography, South Island, Sea ice, Glaciers of Antarctica, Ice shelves of Antarctica, Climate change, Ice shelf, Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf
Massive icebergs heading to New Zealand
Wellington :: New Zealand | 8 days ago
Credibility 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
Icebergs head from Antarctica for New Zealand
Wellington :: New Zealand | 10 days ago
Credibility New Zealand — Ships in the south Pacific Ocean have been alerted that groups of icebergs believed to have split off Antarctic ice shelves are drifting north toward New Zealand, officials said Tuesday. The alert comes three years after cold weather and...
Tags: New Zealand, Wellington, Environment, Iceberg, Physical oceanography, Icebergs, Iceberg B-15, Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, Ice shelf, British Antarctic Territory, Southern Ocean, Iceberg C-19, Sea ice, Antarctica, Glaciology
Giant iceberg spotted off Australia
Auckland :: New Zealand | 16 days ago
Credibility Neal Young, an Australian Antarctic Division glaciologist, said the flat-topped slab could break into dozens of smaller icebergs as it moves in the direction of New Zealand, causing a possible shipping hazard. “It’s rare to make a sighting like this –...
Tags: New Zealand, Auckland, Ice shelf, Iceberg B-15, Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, Ice shelves of Antarctica, Iceberg, Physical oceanography, Environment
The giant iceberg that went walkabout... towards the coast of Australia
Australia is known for sunny beaches, surfers, and blistering Outback heat.So scientists were a bit taken aback when they spotted this giant iceberg floating near an island Down Under.Australian Antarctic Division researchers were working on Macquarie...
Tags: The giant iceberg that went walkabout... towards the coast of Australia, Environment, global warming, Neal Young, giant icebergs, Ross Ice Shelf, ice sheets, Andrew Kohut, Australia, Hamish Pritchard, Sydney, Climate change, Iceberg, Ice shelf, Glaciers of Antarctica, Ice shelves of Antarctica, Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, Physical oceanography, Antarctica, Glaciology
HUGE Island of ice floats near Macquarie Island
The iceberg, estimated to be 500m long and 50m high, was spotted about eight kilometres north-west of the island by Australian Antarctic Division expeditioners this week. Fur seal biologist Dean Miller was the first to see the iceberg while on his...
Tags: Island, green, Pakistan, Lahore, Ross Ice Shelf, Ice shelf, Iceberg B-15, Ice shelves of Antarctica, Environment, Iceberg, Neal Young, Physical oceanography, Dean Miller, Macquarie Island
Rare iceberg spotted off island south of Australia; uncommon sight in such waters
Sydney :: Australia | 21 days ago
Credibility A large iceberg was spotted off an island about halfway between Antarctica and Australia, a rare sight in waters so far north, Australian scientists said Thursday. Australian Antarctic Division researchers working on Macquarie Island, about 930 miles...
Tags: Macquarie Island, Australia, Antarctica, New Zealand, Sydney, Ice shelves of Antarctica, Glaciology, Glaciers of Antarctica, Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, Iceberg B-15, Physical oceanography, Iceberg, Ice shelf, Environment, West Antarctica, Sea ice, Ross Ice Shelf, Thwaites Glacier
Search officially called off
Canterbury :: United Kingdom | 2 months ago
Credibility Poor weather has prevented any search so far and the conditions are forecast to continue today. Senior Constable Phil Simmonds says it is past the point of survival for the teenager given the amount of time he has been trapped and any rescue attempt...
Tags: ice shelf, Rolleston, Canterbury University, mt rolleston, university student, Arthur, United Kingdom, Canterbury
Scientific American: NASA Satellites Watch Polar Ice Shelf Break into Crushed Ice
Nuuk :: Greenland | 4 months ago
Credibility The accelerating pace of climate warming in the earth’s polar regions is spurring a new sense of scientific urgency. Aqua caught a Manhattan-size floating piece of ice shelf in the act of disintegrating. Slabs continued to calve and break up throughout...
Tags: ice shelf
Thinning Arctic sea ice alarms experts
Washington :: DC :: USA | 8 months ago
Credibility The latest alarm about the fate of the Arctic sea ice, due to an unusually high proportion of thinner "first-year" ice, raises the prospect of an acceleration in the loss of ice during the warmer summer months, considered a key indicator of climate change...
Tags: sea ice, Shrinking of Arctic sea, global warming, ice shelf, Hillary Rodham Clinton, national snow, Antarctica, thinning arctic
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