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The tiny stretch of ice visible in the image to the left is a portion of the Amery Ice Shelf, a region of the Antarctica that is very narrow, but extremely significant to the East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS). A new study shows that this narrow basin drains about 16 percent of all EAIS ices. The Lambert Glacier is dr... |
13 February 2012
04:14 GMT |
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Using data supplied by a NASA spacecraft, a team of experts at the University of Colorado in Boulder (UCB) was recently able to determine that global sea levels rose by 0.5 inches (12 millimeters) between 2003 and 2010. Though this may not seem like much, experts provide frightening statistics.
They say that the vol... |
9 February 2012
03:59 GMT |
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The Pine Island Glacier, known among experts as PIG, is one of Antarctica's five largest ice streams, and one of the most important ice fields in the world. During a study conducted at the location by NASA scientists, back in October 2011, a huge crack was found scarring its surface.
This is nothing but bad ne... |
31 January 2012
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Researchers from the Pennsylvania State University say that bacteria of the species Chryseobacterium and Paenisporosarcina may be able to endure on Mars. The microorganisms live in extremely difficult conditions here on Earth, at the bottom of glaciers in Antarctica and Greenland.
These are not the first places tha... |
20 January 2012
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The Microsoft Kinect motion sensor can be used to map the underbelly of moving glaciers, a PhD student named Ken Mankoff proved last summer. He made a dive underneath Rieperbreen Glacier in Svalbard, Norway, carrying the sensor, and produced a 3D map of the glacier's underside.
This is an innovative use for a d... |
15 December 2011
03:46 GMT |
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A collaboration of space agencies around the world announces the creation of the world's most comprehensive map of ice flows in Antarctica. The work will help climate researchers and planetary scientists understand how sea levels will rise over the next decades.The investigation was part of an ambitious science ... |
19 August 2011
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NASA investigators at the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) determined that the tsunami produced by the March 2011 Tohoku earthquake was able to dislodge large icebergs from Antarctica. The magnitude-9.0 earthquake struck Japan on March 11, causing widespread damage to both population and infrastructur... |
8 August 2011
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Experts at the University of California in Merced (UCM) and the University of California in Berkeley (UCB) announce the creation of a prototype wireless monitoring installation in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The grid keeps an eye on the amount of snow and ice available at these locations.Water is the most precious r... |
2 August 2011
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When the Larsen A and B ice shelves collapsed in 1995 and 2002, respectively, experts were on the scene to observe the Antarctic decline. Now, a new study quantifies just how much ice was lost following the collapse of these two ice masses.The ice shelves were located in East Antarctica, and experts have been warning... |
25 July 2011
10:40 GMT |
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While the controversy about how fast the world’s ice sheets and glaciers are melting on account of global warming rages on, one thing remains certain – there is at this point a dire need for experts to continuously monitor the situation. GlobGlacier was designed to do just that.GlobGlacier is an initiativ... |
25 July 2011
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Right before it was decommissioned on July 6, the second European Remote Sensing satellite (ERS-2) sent back a final treasure trove of glacier data, that masterfully crowned its amazing, 16-year mission. A large part of the measuring methods current satellites use were first tested and validated aboard this testbed s... |
8 July 2011
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A massive ice island that broke off the Greenland ice sheet nearly a year ago has now been identified off the coasts of Labrador, Canada. The massive iceberg has been drifting in the North Atlantic, posing a danger for navigation, but authorities now know its location. The object became separated from the Petermann G... |
6 July 2011
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When researchers first noticed that the world's oceans tended to warm up, they calculated the amount of time it would take for adjacent glaciers and ice sheets to melt down. Now, new studies are showing that the meltdown could occur a lot earlier than experts first calculated. In addition to the warming itself, ... |
4 July 2011
08:48 GMT |
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A group of investigators in the United States says that the rates at which snowpacks on the Rocky Mountains collapse are higher than any other recorded over the past centuries. The difference can only be attributed to man-made global warming, and the climate change it induces.The study focused on how the ices on the ... |
10 June 2011
05:58 GMT |
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The conclusions of the most recent scientific investigation conducted on glaciers in Alaska show that ices in this area are melting down just like they are in Antarctica, Greenland and the rest of the Arctic.
Studies conducted as far back as the 1980s demonstrated without a doubt that the massive glaciers on the A... |
28 May 2011
06:35 GMT |
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The newest studies aimed at calculating the exact extent of ice loss in Greenland reveal that the two of three most important glaciers on the island have thus far lost enough ice that the meltwater can fill Lake Erie, one of the five Great Lakes at the border between Canada and the United States.According to scientis... |
25 May 2011
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As the world is getting warmer, experts are beginning to identify more and more areas that play a significant role in boosting sea level rise. Recently, they found out that islands in the Canadian section of the Arctic contributed extensively to this phenomenon.Glacier and ice caps in these area are now melting faste... |
21 April 2011
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Throughout the world, the existence of U-shaped valleys featuring a distinct shape and composition have been attributed to the action of glaciers over millions of years. Recently, a team of scientists developed a model that can indicate how these areas looked like before the ices took hold. Glacier valleys are produc... |
1 April 2011
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For many years, scientists have believed that warmer temperatures over the summer would speed up the flow of glaciers from ice shelves into the sea. But new satellite data collected by an European spacecraft show that this is not the case, and that warm weather actually slows down the glaciers. Investigators were equ... |
27 January 2011
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific study, it would appear that a significant portion of the ices covering the Himalaya mountain chain is stable and even growing at some places. This is due to an insulating layer of debris that allows it to remain isolated from the warming world. These findings are in di... |
24 January 2011
05:09 GMT |
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A little more than a year ago, a group of investigators carrying out a series of research flights above Antarctica discovered a hidden feature below the surface of Pine Island Glacier, in the form of a deepwater channel, that brought warmer water under the ice, heating it from beneath. This particular glacier is in f... |
19 January 2011
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More than a decade ago, two major Antarctic ice shelves collapsed into the waters of the Southern Ocean, in an event that marked the seriousness of global warming with a real-life event. Now, experts are beginning to understand how various factors conspired to underlie the collapse. The western parts of Antarctica ar... |
17 December 2010
05:16 GMT |
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Studies of places such as Greenland are evidencing the fact that land-based glaciers in these regions are currently melting, and flowing towards the sea at high speeds. But a new research shows that meltwater, long-thought to be a favoring factor in this, actually plays a different role.Glaciers tend to flow downhill... |
13 December 2010
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Scientists at the Ohio State University (OSU) say that preliminary results of an investigation they conducted atop the eastern European Alps hint at the fact that some of the glaciers in the area hold back climate data spanning more than a thousand years.The research was conducted on the highest mountain in the easte... |
10 December 2010
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One of the things the Swiss Alps are famous for is the impressive number of gorges they contain. These landscape features are monumental in scale and grandeur, and also very difficult for geologists to explain. A recent study proposes a new approach to explaining the gorges' existence. According to researchers b... |
6 December 2010
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Few people living in Massachusetts or in the United States in general know that Cape Cod was in fact produced by a large glacier, that originated in the Laurentide Ice Sheet. This large chunk of ice, which disappeared millennia ago, stretched across most of the territory now occupied by Canada, as well as over much o... |
25 November 2010
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For the last time ever, the European Space Agency has paired up its ERS-2 and Envisat satellites in Earth's orbit, so that the two spacecraft can produce three-dimensional maps of low-lying coastal areas and glaciers around the world. The two instruments worked together in the past several times, and each sortie... |
2 November 2010
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A collaboration of experts from NASA and a number of European partner institutions announce that they have just finished a new study on how water is transported on Earth's surface. At the same time, the investigation was also oriented on determining how the solid crust that covers our planet responds to the retr... |
15 September 2010
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Officials at the European Space Agency announce that their intentions of using satellites to create the most detailed global picture of glaciers and ice caps ever have finally materialized. The ambitious, three-year, €1million GlobGlacier project concluded successfully, representatives from the space agency say,... |
8 September 2010
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The large iceberg that broke off the Petermann Glacier in Greenland about a month ago is now making its way into the Nares Strait, satellites observations reveal. The massive piece of ice broke away from the glacier in August 5, and has been slowly moving away ever since. It represents about one quarter of the former... |
4 September 2010
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According to a recently-published study by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), it would appear that a large number of Asian glaciers are currently retreating due to rising global temperatures.The finding could have disastrous consequences for millions of people who depend on Asian rivers for drinking water, i... |
26 August 2010
04:17 GMT |
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NASA is keeping an eye on a massive iceberg, that broke off a glacier in Greenland about a week ago. Officials at the American space agency say that the large chunk of ice, which is about four times larger than Manhattan, could reach a position from which it could threaten shipping lanes in the region. This will happ... |
13 August 2010
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Greenland has just lost a massive chunk of ice from its Petermann Glacier, experts report. The structure, which is an estimated four time the size of Manhattan, is now floating freely in the Atlantic Ocean. According to scientists, this is the first time since 1962 that such a massive piece of ice breaks loose, and t... |
7 August 2010
06:09 GMT |
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It's no longer a secret to anyone that the extent of the multi-year ice sheets in the Arctic is rapidly declining. At this point, there are several predictions as to when the North Pole will become completely clear of ice during the summer months, but none of them is too encouraging. Unlike Antarctica, which is ... |
12 June 2010
06:38 GMT |
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The international scientific community acknowledges that global warming and climate change will have a devastating influence on the world's glaciers and ice-capped mountain ranges. The same is expected to take place in Asia as well, where large amounts of melting glaciers could spell disaster for the areas downs... |
11 June 2010
05:28 GMT |
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In a new set of scientific investigations, it was revealed that some of the most prominent glaciers in the Alps were not melting and waning due to global warming alone. Scientists determined that naturally-occurring climate swings also contributed to the decline in ice masses, and this is very evident in the case of ... |
5 June 2010
06:23 GMT |
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Scientists were recently able to determine that the entire island of Greenland is rising extremely fast from the waters. They say that losing its ice sheets, icebergs and caps makes the land a lot lighter. With this massive weight removed, the land is soaring upwards at rates of up to 1 inch per year. In geological t... |
19 May 2010
02:48 GMT |
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Everyone knows how average volcanoes look like, a large mountain with active interior, which funnels magma from the mantle onto the planet's surface, where it turns to lava and devastates everything around. But a special type of such structure is represented by glaciovolcanoes, which are similar to the “re... |
23 April 2010
16:01 GMT |
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According to a new scientific paper, published in the latest issue of the respected scientific journal Geology, it would appear that glaciers can experience the effects of so-called “icequakes” several hundreds of times each day. The events, which shake ice caps to their very core, can send out shock wave... |
2 April 2010
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Alaskan glaciers and their surrounding land arguably produce some of the most beautiful sights in the world, with limbs of ice spiraling downwards from mountaintops. Researchers swarm to various locations every single year, taking measurements, collecting core samples, looking for fossils, or establishing the impact ... |
6 March 2010
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A group of researchers has recently determined that the rate at which a major portion of Alaskan glaciers is melting has been exaggerated by previous studies. The experts note that the method of calculation they used show that the actual melt rate is about 66 percent of the initially-established one. The team adds th... |
3 March 2010
02:28 GMT |
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Climate change and global warming are already beginning to cause ill-effects around the planet, from disrupting ecosystems to causing more volcanic eruptions and making soils arid. But probably these phenomena bring about their worse effects in polar regions. While, in the North, they heat up the Arctic and Greenland... |
18 January 2010
03:26 GMT |
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Although it may seem easy to do, measuring the thickness and evolution of glaciers is a very tricky business. Glaciologists still use wooden poles and shovels to measure the thickness of glaciers, or sometimes just shovels. These methods may be very well suited for small applications, such as assessing the yearly or ... |
3 December 2009
09:42 GMT |
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Scientists at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, led by William Patterson, have demonstrated that the script behind the movie “The Day after Tomorrow” may have not been so far-fetched when showing a deep freeze taking over the world in just a few weeks. They argue that the latest Ice Age to have sw... |
30 November 2009
13:01 GMT |
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In spite of looking like a giant stretch of ice in the Northern Pacific, Greenland fulfills a number of functions in the region, not the least important of them being the fact that it helps keep the North Pole cool. The way it manages to accomplish that is by being large and white, in the purest of senses. Light comi... |
13 November 2009
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Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro is one of the most renowned natural landmarks in the world today. Dominating large plains, the mountain looks as if it had its top cut off by a giant wielding a sword. Its iconic image is partially given by the fact that, while in Africa, it has its top covered in snow and ice. While... |
3 November 2009
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Geologists in Kyrgyzstan are currently struggling to get the world's attention on the extremely serious conditions of their country's glaciers. In the best case scenario, the ice spreads that managed to endure the warming of the climate better dropped in levels by about 20 percent over the last 50 years. Th... |
28 October 2009
04:39 GMT |
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Over the past few years, governmental and private programs have seen a slow, but constant, decrease in the amount of pollution that is generated around the world. In spite of that, scientific measurements have revealed that the pollution layers are, in fact, getting thicker, and experts have had no explanation for th... |
22 October 2009
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Experts at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) have recently demonstrated that variations in climate over the Northern Hemisphere in the past 12,000 years are tightly linked to changes recorded all the way to the tropics, and as far as Peru. In a research paper published in the latest issue of the top journal Scien... |
25 September 2009
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Scientists at the Durham University have devised, for the first time, a model of the British and Irish Ice Sheet, which accounts for the sculpted landscape of northern Britain, but also holds a few surprises. The team discovered that the ice moved in unexpected patterns, and also that these movements left distinctive... |
15 September 2009
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