Tue. December 02, 2008
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The Age
December 2, 2008
Webdiary
December 2, 2008
Given the onset of the Antarctic ice sheet at or below 450 parts per million (ppm) CO2 c. 34 Million years (Ma) ago (late Eocene), and of Arctic
sea ice ...
Science Daily (press release)
December 2, 2008
Melting continental ice sheets. Data from GRACE has made it possible to measure changes in the mass of the two polar
ice sheets in Antarctica and
Greenland. ...
Science Daily (press release)
December 2, 2008
Ice sheets, such as those in
Antarctica and
Greenland, spread under their own weight and flow off land over the
oceans. The Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica ...
guardian.co.uk
December 1, 2008
That included the possible extinction of nearly one-third of the earth's species, a threatened meltdown of the
Greenland or western
Antarctic ice sheets ...
ScienceBlogs
December 1, 2008
It had almost certainly reached close to these frigid temperatures about 15 million years ago, when there was a strong expansion of the Antarctic ice sheet ...
New York Times
December 1, 2008
By HENRY FOUNTAIN One process that contributes to the rise of
sea levels is the calving of icebergs from the
Greenland and
Antarctic ice sheets. ...
Scienceline
November 30, 2008
As
Greenland 's ice sheets collapse, Gore predicts that our shores will be flooded and
sea-bordering cities will sink beneath the water leaving millions of ...
European Space Agency
November 28, 2008
The Wilkins Ice Shelf, a broad plate of floating ice south of
South America on the Antarctic Peninsula, had been stable for most of the last century before ...
EcoWorldly
November 28, 2008
They are formed as the ice sheet spreads under its own weight. Some shelves can be quite narrow, with others such as the Ross ice shelf in
Antarctica ...
Newspost Online
November 27, 2008
Smith said that the temperature at the bottom of the ice sheet stays very close to melting point. Geothermal energy and friction warm it slightly and the ...
Reuters
November 27, 2008
Ice sheets are giant frozen rivers, caused by snowfall, that slowly flow to the
sea and then break up. In
Antarctica, the Ross Ice Shelf extends 500 miles ...
National Science Foundation (press release)
November 24, 2008
... where large ice sheets began to form. Based on research by Pekar and others, once formed, the ice sheet covering
Antarctica sometimes grew larger than ...
Scientific American
November 24, 2008
Editor's Note: Marine geophysicist Robin Bell is leading an expedition to
Antarctica to explore a mysterious mountain range beneath the ice sheet. ...
Pembroke Daily Observer
November 24, 2008
Furthermore, the IPCC tells the world (if anybody is listening) current
global model studies project that the
Antarctica ice sheet will remain too cold for ...
Sourdough Sentinel
November 23, 2008
... to the furthest reaches of this theater, and we've rescued countless injured civilians from the waters of the Pacific to the ice sheets of Antarctica. ...
The Province
November 23, 2008
Satellite-based gravity measurements of the Earth revealed that the
Greenland ice sheet is losing about 150 gigatonnes of ice each year. ...
Science Daily (press release)
November 23, 2008
The
oceans are rising because the warming ocean water increases in volume and because water is being added from melting glaciers and land-based ice sheets. ...
Entertainment and Showbiz!
November 23, 2008
Smith said that the temperature at the bottom of the ice sheet stays very close to melting point. Geothermal energy and friction warm it slightly and the ...
USA Today
November 23, 2008
In fact, he says, "there are many remote areas in the Antarctic where no humans have ever set foot." "The changing mass of
Greenland and
Antarctica ...
Multinational Monitor
November 22, 2008
West Antarctic and
Greenland ice sheets are vulnerable to even small additional warming. These two-mile-thick behemoths respond slowly at first, ...
eTaiwan News
November 22, 2008
"The Antarctic ice sheet is melting rapidly and experts estimate that in few decades there will be no more ice at the
South Pole in summer, " said Chang, ...
Sourdough Sentinel
November 22, 2008
... to the furthest reaches of this theater, and we've rescued countless injured civilians from the waters of the Pacific to the ice sheets of Antarctica. ...
ScienceBlogs
November 22, 2008
The
sea level rises predicted by Gore and Manne depend upon the great
ice sheets of Antarctica and
Greenland suddenly disappearing, a scenario deriving more ...
Scientific American
November 22, 2008
Editor's Note: Marine geophysicist Robin Bell is leading an expedition to
Antarctica to explore a mysterious mountain range beneath the ice sheet. ...
Embedded Computing Design (press release)
November 22, 2008
scientists believe the Antarctic ice sheet is the best place on Earth to build an
acoustic neutrino
telescope that can listen for these neutrinos. ...
Reno News & Review
November 20, 2008
... Institute is here, but I don't think everyone realized the breadth of your research-that you're studying Walker Lake but also
Antarctica, for example. ...
MarketWatch
November 20, 2008
A layer of rocky debris blanketing the ice may have preserved the underground glaciers as remnants from an ice sheet that covered middle latitudes during a ...
Science Daily (press release)
November 19, 2008
Using nearly 50 years of data, University of
Maine researchers have determined that subglacial
floods in East
Antarctica caused a rapid and short-lived ...
Payson Roundup
November 19, 2008
During
Antarctica's summer - December, January and February. Other facts on the continent: if Antarctica's ice sheets melted, the world's
oceans would rise ...
Softpedia
November 19, 2008
"It is hard to see how anthropogenic
global warming would affect the base of the ice sheet," argued Andy Smith, a
scientist with the British Antarctic ...
LabnewsOnline
November 19, 2008
Professor Nicholas Owens, Director of British Antarctic Survey said: "There's an amazing history of our planet locked in
Antarctica's ice and rocks. ...
EUROPA
November 19, 2008
BBC News
November 17, 2008
By Jonathan Amos Great
floods beneath the Antarctic ice sheet can now be linked directly to the speed at which that ice moves towards the ocean, ...
Science Daily (press release)
November 17, 2008
... within and beneath the ice on
Antarctica. In the last decade,
scientists have discovered lakes of liquid water underneath the Antarctic ice sheet. ...
Discover Magazine
November 17, 2008
Deep beneath the Antarctic ice sheet,
floods of water from buried lakes can hurry glaciers along on their slow slide towards the
sea, according to a new ...
Forbes
November 17, 2008
And for those worried about ice sheets melting in parts of
Antarctica, Lawson doesn't hide from the latter, but merely points out that they're growing in ...
innovations report (Pressemitteilung)
November 17, 2008
... within and beneath the ice on
Antarctica. In the last decade,
scientists have discovered lakes of liquid water underneath the Antarctic ice sheet. ...
Newspost Online
November 16, 2008
Smith said that the temperature at the bottom of the ice sheet stays very close to melting point. Geothermal energy and friction warm it slightly and the ...
Science News
November 16, 2008
By Sid Perkins
floods that occasionally surge from immense lakes trapped beneath the Antarctic ice sheet can significantly speed the flow of ice in ...
