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
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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 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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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
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In November 2009, the otherwise-gray day of researchers working on surveying the underside of the Antarctic ice sheet was brightened up when they discovered a shrimp-like creature swimming no less than 600 feet underneath the surface of the ice shelf. The animal was going about its business inside a borehole that the... |
19 March 2010
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