A group of scientists recently drew attention to the fact that a large iceberg currently roaming the Southern Ocean threatens to adversely affect the currents and weather patterns of the world. The enormous piece of ice broke off from the Mertz Glacier Tongue, which is a 60-kilometer-long slip of floating ice that pr... |
26 February 2010
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Researchers were able to finally identify the mechanisms through which cracks appear in the large ice shelves covering Antarctica and Greenland, a process known as calving. Understanding exactly how this happens is crucial, as the two regions stock most of the ice on Earth, whose melting could increase sea levels by ... |
28 November 2008
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On 14 April 1912, RMS Titanic, an Olympic-class passenger liner, struck an iceberg while in the waters of the North Atlantic. Three hours later, on 15 April 1912, the so-called 'unsinkable' luxury liner sank, killing more than 1,500 people on board. Ironically, the biggest passenger liner of its time was in... |
21 April 2008
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A large iceberg has just split off from Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica. Envisat's Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) instrument monitored the cleavage of the huge ice mass, 34 km in length and 20 km in width, having an area nearly half the size of Greater London.Icebergs appear due to the action of wind... |
23 October 2007
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Can ice be considered life deserted? If you think so, check out an iceberg. Icebergs can take lives in sea incidents (of course, Titanic remains the most severe accident involving an iceberg), but they can also boost marine life. People had noticed that algae, krill (shrimplike crustaceans) and seabirds gather on an... |
22 June 2007
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Canadian oceanographers are puzzled by bizarre photographs showing the skeleton of a large mammal popping out of an iceberg drifted near the coast of eastern Newfoundland. The six images reveal what looks like a brown rib cage and spinal column, slightly bent, sticking out of the iceberg. "Researchers throughout Cana... |
21 June 2007
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11 % of the land surface is covered by ice (23 million square km).14.1 million are in Antarctica, 21,000 square km in mountain glaciers in southern temperate zone, 100 square kilometers in tropical mountain glaciers, 100,111 square km in mountain glaciers in northern temperate zone and 2.2 million square km in the Ar... |
19 April 2007
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