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Ancient ecosystem under a glacier
Washington :: DC :: USA | 6 months ago
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The rusty water comes from a subterranean pool where bacteria have been isolated for up to 2 million years. Photograph: Science An ancient ecosystem that has thrived in isolation for millions of years has been discovered in a pool of dark, salty water...
Tags: Antarctica, East Antarctic, antarctic glacier, antarctic ice, ancient ecosystem, ice sheet, iron compounds
Rising CO2 to trigger ice sheet collapse
Auckland :: New Zealand | 7 months ago
Credibility Antarctica's vulnerable western ice sheet, scientists said. The massive land mass known as western Antarctica was thought to be unstable, but a study by New Zealand, American and European researchers published today reveals details about just how volatile...
Tags: antarctic ice, West Antarctica, ice sheet, sea level, global sea, ice melted, raising sea, sheet collapsed, ocean temperatures, Earth
San Francisco Bay vulnerable to rising waters
Nuuk :: Greenland | 8 months ago
Credibility The economic threat to the state's 1,000 miles of coastline between Oregon and Mexico is of concern, but is dwarfed by the threat to the bay's shoreline, where a history of filling wetlands and building on them could be reversed by a rising sea. "No one...
Tags: sea level, climate change, Greenland, global warming, rise sea, California, ice melt, ice sheet, level rise
Windsor Star, Canada: Antarctic ice shelf set to collapse
Washington :: DC :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility A huge Antarctic ice shelf is on the brink of collapse with just a sliver of ice holding it in place, the latest victim of global warming that is altering maps of the frozen continent. "We've come to the Wilkins Ice Shelf to see its final death throes,"...
Tags: West Antarctica, ice sheet, antarctic ice, sea level
2 °C rise could spark meltdown
Nuuk :: Greenland | 11 months ago
Credibility A less than 2 °C rise in global temperatures might be sufficient to spark a meltdown of the Greenland Ice Sheet and Arctic sea ice, the WWF warned in a new study released on Thursday. "Scientists now suggest that even warming of less than 2 °C might be...
Tags: ice sheet, melting, ice sheets
Climate change clues buried in ice 1.2m years old
Ross :: OH :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Antarctic conservation mission in history this month to find the planet's oldest ice and unravel the mysteries of climate change. A team of scientists, engineers and pilots from Britain, the US, Germany, Australia, China and Japan will join forces...They...
Tags: climate change, arctic, ice sheet
Queensland Courier-Mail: Meltdown: Fears for Greenland icesheet
Nuuk :: Greenland | about 1 year ago
Credibility Greenland icesheet, a prospect once merely the preserve of doomsayers. Such melting would see much of the world's coastline drowned by rising seas. The researchers found that the great Laurentide icesheet which smothered much of North America during the...
Tags: ice sheet, global warming, melting, sea level, ice sheets, Greenland, arctic
Ice Sheet Breaks - Things are Really happening Faster
A chunk of ice spreading across 7 square miles (18 square kilometers) has broken off a Canadian ice shelf in the Arctic, scientists say. The sheet broke away last week from the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf off the north coast of Ellesmere Island in Canada's far...
Giant Arctic ice sheet snaps off
Toronto :: Canada | about 1 year ago
Credibility The 20 square kilometer ice sheet is believed to be the biggest ice chunk to fracture in the region since 2005, BBC reported...Disraeli Fjord which froze under the shelf; the fracture may have been caused by a change in process. Researchers warn that...
Tags: arctic, ice shelf, Ellesmere Island, broke away, ice sheet, shelf broke, ward hunt
Giant chunks break off Canadian ice shelf
Edmonton :: Canada | about 1 year ago
Credibility Scientists had already identified deep cracks in the Ward Hunt shelf, which measures around 400 square km. The shelf is one of five along Ellesmere Island in the northern Arctic. "Because the break-off occurred between two large parallel cracks they're...
Tags: arctic, global warming, ice sheet, ice shelf, Ellesmere Island
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