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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
02:47 GMT |
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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
17:01 GMT |
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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
21:01 GMT |
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As years of satellite observations in the Antarctic went by, NASA experts observed that the southern continent had, in fact, a very well developed “plumbing system” underneath its miles of ice. Underground lakes, pressured by the tons of ice above, have created thin water layers between the rocks and the ... |
28 August 2009
04:42 GMT |
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According to scientific evidence seen by the BBC News, it would appear that one of the largest ice sheets in the Antarctic, Pine Island Glacier, is melting four times faster than it did only ten years ago. Satellite measurements of the region have revealed the fact that the formation is at this time losing about 16 m... |
14 August 2009
02:21 GMT |
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Recent investigations have proven that large and seemingly unmovable glaciers can rapidly shrink, in just a few centuries. Researchers from the University at Buffalo came to this conclusion after they analyzed traces left behind by a large ancient glacier, which existed in the Canadian Arctic. They concluded that the... |
22 June 2009
05:25 GMT |
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One of the most severe byproducts of global warming and climate change is increasing and widespread drought, which will affect a large number of nations in the future, especially those in regions already prone to experiencing such phenomena. Paradoxically, increased droughts will be joined by massive flooding, but ba... |
13 May 2009
06:35 GMT |
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Recent investigations in the Antarctic have revealed a microbe colony that has been living underneath hundreds of feet of ice for 1.5 million years, after having been completely separated from the outside world. The microorganisms have no access to oxygen or sunlight, so they just had to make do with what they could ... |
17 April 2009
04:54 GMT |
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For quite some time now, climatologists have known that the layers found in most ancient ice shelves and in large icebergs can be used to get a glimpse into our planet's ancient history, at least as far as climate changes go. Each layer is specific to a certain period of time in our planet's past, and each ... |
30 March 2009
06:38 GMT |
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British researchers have just recently announced the success of a fully robotized mission in the treacherous environment of the Antarctic, where Autosub, a machine built and developed by the UK National Oceanography Center in Southampton, has managed to complete a six-part mission. It has had to submerge itself under... |
18 March 2009
07:19 GMT |
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The Spanish Environment Ministry has announced only recently that the Pyrenee mountains, which are located at the border between France and Spain, have lost more than 90 percent of their ice during the 20th century, and that, if the current global warming trend continues, the remaining 10 percent of ice could disappe... |
25 February 2009
06:56 GMT |
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According to an international study, published on Tuesday by French researchers, the massive ice cap at Mars' north pole is over 95 percent pure, and is thus made mostly of water. The news came as a shock to many people, because the implications of this are far-reaching. Biologists know that, wherever there is w... |
21 January 2009
02:30 GMT |
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Since the early 1990s, land- and mountain-based glaciers worldwide have been in a constant process of withdrawal, with devastating consequences to global fresh water supplies, which mostly depend on these sources. Asian glaciers, in particular, pose the highest threat because they fuel several large rivers, that, in ... |
28 November 2008
05:36 GMT |
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A new international expedition is to analyze the vast lands of the Larsen C ice shelf, a chunk of ice about the size of Scotland. This is all that remained from a much larger spread of ice, which melted successively – Larsen A in 1995 and Larsen B in 2002. The main goal of this expedition is to find out if the ... |
23 October 2008
04:55 GMT |
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Many boat captains have complained throughout the years that, at some coordinates on the ocean, their ships lose speed and almost grind to a halt, although the engines are fully powered and there is no visible change in the consistency of the water. Oceanologists have identified the cause for this occurrence in the s... |
22 October 2008
04:28 GMT |
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A large portion of Greenland's ancient glaciers is currently melting, at a very high speed, say locals. The roaring of the cracks can be heard for tens of miles in all directions. The people near the blocks of ice, who see glaciers melting every summer, reported that the large icebergs that used to come off the ... |
13 October 2008
09:28 GMT |
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The threat that melting glaciers pose is extremely high. If they collapse, the sea levels could rise several feet worldwide, leading to extensive flooding and the alternation of known shore lines. This means that cities such as New York, Tokyo and Bombay could be partially or totally flooded and millions of human liv... |
10 October 2008
07:10 GMT |
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