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The 5,000 year old monument is no longer considered a mystery by scientists, due to a recent discovery. Robert Ixer from University of Leicester and the National Museum of Wales has collaborated with Richard Bevins from the National Museum of Wales to indicate the source of the rocks that are now famous worldwide, th... |
19 December 2011
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According to climate researchers and polar investigators, the ices the Antarctic is currently losing are playing an important role in raising the global sea level around all continents. Scientists knew this would happen, but the influence was not expected to become noticeable so soon. A new analysis, released an a re... |
26 January 2011
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It seems that the European Space Agency has made a habit out of having its satellites fly in formation, as a result of a successful similar campaign which took place in 2007. This year’s initiative will involve the two satellites from the previous operation, the ERS-2 and the Envisat. Their moving together... |
10 December 2008
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The mild slopes on the mid-latitudes of Mars were first spotted by the Viking orbiters during the '70s and their composition has eluded the scientific world so far, given the differences in aspect when compared to the surrounding similar features. But recent observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissa... |
21 November 2008
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Gerard Maynard, a photographer and painter from New York, United States, has managed to obtain a 17-gigapixel photography of the Yosemite National Park, creating, according to his own words, the most impressive available panorama ever stitched together. The artist, formerly known for his photographic description of H... |
30 October 2008
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The recent digs performed this summer at the World Trade Center in New York in order to lay the foundations for another skyscraper revealed some remains sculpted into the rocks in the area by ancient glaciers some twenty millennia ago, among which there was a 40 ft-deep (12 m) pothole. The uncovering of the soli... |
24 September 2008
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There is a common belief, largely fueled by multiple studies related to climate change and global warming, that Greenland's glaciers are slipping towards the ocean at even faster rates than previously thought. A newly published paper however shows that for the last 17 years or so, Greenland's ice sheet has ... |
4 July 2008
04:56 GMT |
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Indeed, DDT has been banned in some countries for more than three decades now, but that doesn't mean that several million tons of toxic chemicals just disappeared into thin air during this time. Instead DDT insecticide has been frozen and stored in the Antarctic glaciers, which by the way are now slowly melting ... |
7 May 2008
10:46 GMT |
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Mars is often viewed as a planet that has been climatically active in a distant past, having flowing water on its surface as early as 3.5 billion years ago. At some point in time around this date, Mars' clime took a turning point rendering it much as the way we see it today. New discoveries made with the Mars Re... |
24 April 2008
05:40 GMT |
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In small amounts ice is a solid, brittle, crystalline material. But in ticker layers, of 60-100 m (200-330 ft), the part situated underneath behaves like a plastic material, engaged in a slow flow, so that the whole ice mass spreads over an extended area or displace on slopes. That's why a glacier behaves like a... |
27 March 2008
17:51 GMT |
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Ancient Greeks and Egyptians talked about the Mountains of the Moon as the source of the Nile River. Indeed, the Ruwenzori Mountains, located between Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo, represent the highest water source for the Nile (with peaks over 16,000 ft (4,900 m)) and one of the few equatorial mountains ... |
26 March 2008
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Glaciers appear only on high mountains and around the Poles. Through their movements, the ice blocks shape distinct relief forms, like U-shaped valleys, while the eroded matter is deposed as moraines. At the edge of glacial regions, there can be found periglacial areas. Temperatures are still low, but with a slightly... |
25 January 2008
06:23 GMT |
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It is considered the roof of Africa. When German missionaries reported in 1848 a snow-covered mountain in equatorial Africa, everybody in Europe laughed. But later expedition confirmed this. Kilimanjaro is located in northeastern Tanzania, close to the border with Kenya, standing at only 3 degrees south of Equator (3... |
21 November 2007
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If the ocean levels rose by 13 cm (5 in) only between 1940 and 1980, before the current speeding of the global warming, a phenomenon that prolonged the day on Earth by 0.001 second, you can imagine what happened in the last three decades and what will follow!... Tuvalu is already a flooded nation. Paradoxically (or n... |
8 November 2007
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Transcend, known especially as a leading company in flash memory products, has recently announced the latest of its MP3 players, dubbed T.sonic 840. Regarding the player's design, apparently, the manufacturers chose a successful combination between a mirrored surface and a cold metal body that makes the player g... |
3 August 2007
02:42 GMT |
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The Arctic is said to get warmer than Antarctica. Still, hundreds of Antarctic glaciers are melting faster with the global warming, as found by a new satellite study. The faster flow of the glaciers into the ocean could rise the sea levels higher and faster than currently forecast. Satellite pictures of over 300 glac... |
7 June 2007
06:04 GMT |
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This is the oldest European mummy, 5,300 years old, and the oldest ice mummy worldwide. The mummified, frozen body of Ötzi was discovered in 1991 by accident by two German tourists and named after the Ötztal region between Austria and Italy where it was found. The body, stuck in the Schnalstal glacier offered a lot of ... |
7 June 2007
05:28 GMT |
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In small amounts, ice is just a solid, brittle, crystalline material; but when an ice layer surpasses 60-100 m (200-330 ft), the under part behaves like a plastic material, engaged in a slow flow so that the whole ice mass spreads over an extended area or displaces on a slope. For a glacier to appear, the snowfall fr... |
30 May 2007
08:40 GMT |
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In 2006, NASA MODIS Terra satellite discovered the Alyes Ice Island, off the north coast of Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada, at about 800 km (497 miles) from the North Pole.An US-Canadian team has installed this week beacons on the massive ice island to track down its movements through the Arctic Ocean in Canada&... |
25 May 2007
06:51 GMT |
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We consider ice just a solid, brittle, crystalline material because we use to see it in small amounts. But when ice forms a ticker layer, of 60-100 m (200-330 ft), the under part behaves like a plastic material, engaged in a slow flow so that the whole ice mass spreads over an extended area or displace on slope. This... |
28 March 2007
11:30 GMT |
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At the current global warming rate, 30% of the world's highest glaciers will be gone by 2050 and by 2090, 50% will be history. The melting of Tibet's massive glaciers will have a deep impact on south and southeastern Asia, but for the people inhabiting the region this remains a vague concept. Even at the co... |
5 March 2007
06:55 GMT |
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