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World's largest ice sheet melting faster than expected
Nuuk :: Greenland | 7 days 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, 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
Travellers Guide to Antarctica
Auckland :: New Zealand | 8 days ago
Credibility To discover a part of the planet reduced to its raw elements. "The Antarctic is to the rest of the world as the Abode of the Gods was to the ancient Chaldees," wrote Apsley Cherry-Garrard: "A precipitous and mammoth land lying far beyond the seas." That...
Tags: West Antarctica, London-Madrid-Buenos Aires-Ushuaia, Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, Antarctic Circle, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctic Logistics, International Antarctic Centre, Air New Zealand, South Georgia, South Pole, New Zealand, Auckland, Argentine Antarctica, Edwardian era, Antarctica, Ernest Shackleton, Poles, Heroic Era of Antarctic exploration, Extreme points of Earth
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
Rare iceberg spotted off island south of Australia; uncommon sight in such waters
Sydney :: Australia | 17 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
NASA flights will study Antarctic ice changes
Seattle :: WA :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Wallops Flight Facility told reporters on a conference call Thursday. The flights will be conducted by a DC-8 outfitted as a special airborne laboratory with laser mapping instruments, ice-penetrating radar and gravity instruments. The flights will be...
Tags: West Antarctica
Satellite shows 'ominous' polar melting
Nuuk :: Greenland | 2 months ago
Credibility Antarctica and Greenland is melting from glaciers and ice sheets far faster than scientists had previously thought, a discovery that one UC Berkeley climate expert calls "ominous and distressing." Using a laser aboard an orbiting spacecraft that precisely...
Tags: West Antarctica, Greenland, Nuuk
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
Scientists drill deep into Greenland ice for global warming clues from Eemian Period
Oslo :: Norway | 8 months ago
Credibility Scientists are to dig up ice dating back more than 100,000 years in an attempt to shed light on how global warming will change the world over the next century. The ice, at the bottom of the Greenland ice sheet, was laid down at a time when temperatures...
Tags: West Antarctica
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
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
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