This Monday, March 14, the American space agency embarked on the 2011 iteration of its famous IceBridge Mission, which seeks to determine the state of the polar ice caps all over the world. This year's endeavors will be focused in the Arctic, especially in northern Canada. At the same time, all participants will... |
16 March 2011
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The conclusions of a new scientific research bring about new concerns that two of the largest ice masses on the planet – Greenland and the Antarctic – are melting away at much faster rates than previously calculated. There are significant implications to this discovery, experts say, especially in terms of... |
9 March 2011
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Understanding the complex relationships that develop between the world's ice cover and the overall climate has been a goal in science for many years, and the CryoSat mission is a part of the efforts to clear up this mystery. The data the satellite produces have just been made available for all.The European Space... |
1 February 2011
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Some scientists expressed enthusiasm at the idea that the melting ice caps around the Arctic could also have positive effects on the global environment. They argued that, even if climate patterns would indeed be disrupted following the ice caps breaking up, the surface of the ocean would increase. This should have be... |
23 July 2010
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Researchers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, announce that they were recently able to obtain new and detailed data on how the Martian ice caps look like. The formations are not readily visible, as they are covered with a thin layer of red dust, but instruments on the Mars Reconnais... |
27 May 2010
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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
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A group of investigators has recently determined that a strong connection exists between the fast-flowing ice streams on which ice sheets move and climate change. When ice caps are displaced during ice ages, they move on top of these rapidly-moving structures, which carve out distinct patterns in the ocean floor. Res... |
7 May 2010
10:47 GMT |
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Once scientists discovered that the poles of the Red Planet were covered in buried ice caps, they set out to find out whether the precious ice could be found anywhere else as well. They conducted an extensive mapping campaign of northern Mars' middle latitudes, using radars that could peer below the sand cover. ... |
3 March 2010
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A scientific paper, published in the respected journal Nature Geoscience, shows that our previous estimates of how the Earth's atmosphere would respond to mounting carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations were highly conservative. In fact, the team behind the new investigation says, it may be that the atmosphere is 3... |
7 December 2009
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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
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Researchers collecting soil samples from several sites in Alaska discovered that a layer of permafrost, buried at a depth of about one meter (3 feet), is mostly made up of organic remains that have great carbon-emitting potential. Professor Chien-Lu Ping, leader of this study, said that this layer could represent a s... |
9 October 2008
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