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People all over the world mourn over the ice loss of the northern planetary pole. But recent research indicated that this might actually be a good thing in some ways, since it leaves more room for phytoplankton to expand. This, in turn, produces chlorophyll, which helps assimilate sun energy and absorbs atmospheric C... |
12 September 2008
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It is obvious that global warming is already impacting clime, water regime, plant and animal life. So far, a new analysis published in the journal Nature is the most exhaustive one, gathering data on the effects of global warming around the world, from cannibalistic polar bears to melting glaciers and earlier-bloomin... |
15 May 2008
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The sea level rise is well understood in the current conditions of global warming. Glaciers and ice sheets are melting fast. But it seems that we are largely unaware of the dimension of the phenomenon, as a new research presented at the European Geosciences Union conference in Vienna, Austria, this week, shows that b... |
18 April 2008
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By the time of our grandchildren, polar bears may be gone, like the dinosaurs. In the summer of 2007, the Arctic ice surface was about 30% under the long-term average, a record of all times. Some studies forecast ice-free Arctic summers by 2040. Ignatius Rigor, a University of Washington climatologist, speaking at th... |
15 February 2008
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If the ocean levels rose by 13 cm (5 in) only between 1940 and 1980, before the current speeding of the global warming, a phenomenon that prolonged the day on Earth by 0.001 second, you can imagine what happened in the last three decades and what will follow!... Tuvalu is already a flooded nation. Paradoxically (or n... |
8 November 2007
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Melting ice has 'provided' us with frozen mammoths and even frozen people, like the famous Oetzi from the Alps, as if they were kept in a fridge. No wonder that melting glaciers in Western Canada, which recently reached a historic minimum, have unveiled 7,000-year-old tree stumps. The prehistoric tree stump... |
1 November 2007
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Water drips, the Earth is round, Halo 3 sells and ... the Xbox 360 can melt if it's left on a heated stove. These are all general truths that usually require no demonstration in order to prove that they're facts. Well, maybe except for that last statement...One of Engadget's readers, Ty was keen on an... |
8 October 2007
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This haunted the Europeans for long: a short sea route to China. This is how America was discovered. After that, since the 16th century, various expeditions tried to find a sea route above North America or Siberia to get to China, without the long and painful journey through the Suez or Panama channels (and before by... |
19 September 2007
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Yeah, it looks like we will have to explain to our grandchildren what a Polar bear used to be, when the time comes. Now it seems we have to start with our kids first. In 2007, summer melting of the Arctic sea ice is expected to set a record low by the end of September, as data for the 8th of August seem to indicate. ... |
14 August 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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This year it snowed orange in Siberia. But contamination can give many colors to snow, which is anything but white in many places. Now a team at UC Irvine has signaled that dirty snow can be responsible for over 35 % of the Arctic meltdown, besides global warming induced by greenhouse gases.Snow gets dirty due to so... |
8 June 2007
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The Arctic is said to get warmer than Antarctica. Still, hundreds of Antarctic glaciers are melting faster with the global warming, as found by a new satellite study. The faster flow of the glaciers into the ocean could rise the sea levels higher and faster than currently forecast. Satellite pictures of over 300 glac... |
7 June 2007
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90 % of the ice on Earth is stored in Antarctica, being the Earth's largest amount of freshwater. You can imagine that minimal changes in the ice mass of Antarctica have a deep impact on raising the global sea level. Large quantities of Antarctic molten freshwater shed into the ocean could have a deep impact in ... |
16 May 2007
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The Northern Hemisphere is warmer. That's because there are more land masses, that trap more heat during the summer. That's why ice packs on the North Pole are more sensitive to the global warming and it would shrink faster at minimal temperature changes, unlike the Antarctic ice, which is much more stable.... |
7 May 2007
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Sea levels have risen 10 cm (4 inch) from the beginning of the industrial era, when people started to dump huge amounts of carbon dioxide resulted from the burning of the fossil fuels into the atmosphere. But what has occurred till now is nothing compared to what is going to happen if only the Greenland's ice sh... |
2 May 2007
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Experts have detected that a Texas-sized ice pack of Antarctica is thinning and could make the ocean level rise significantly in the long-term."Surprisingly rapid changes are occurring in Antarctica's Amundsen Sea Embayment, an ice drainage system that faces the southern Pacific Ocean," warn the experts, pointin... |
30 March 2007
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At the current global warming rate, 30% of the world's highest glaciers will be gone by 2050 and by 2090, 50% will be history. The melting of Tibet's massive glaciers will have a deep impact on south and southeastern Asia, but for the people inhabiting the region this remains a vague concept. Even at the co... |
5 March 2007
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