Search results for glacial melting:
Melting glaciers may release DDT and contaminate Antarctic environment
May 26, 2008 |
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In an unexpected consequence of climate change, scientists are raising the possibility that glacial melting is releasing large amounts of the banned pesticide DDT, which is contaminating the environment in ...
Intensified ice sheet movements do not affect rising sea levels
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 08, 2008 |
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Meltwater is rapidly increasing the tempo of glacial movements on the rim of the Greenland ice sheet. Over the long term, however, this process is interrupted as meltwater drains away via broad channels, as a result of which ...
Glacial melting may release pollutants in the environment
Oct 21, 2009 |
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Those pristine-looking Alpine glaciers now melting as global warming sets in may explain the mysterious increase in persistent organic pollutants in sediment from certain lakes since the 1990s, despite decreased ...
Shrinking Bylot Island glaciers tell story of climate change
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 31, 2009 |
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The U.S. Geological Survey has released the results of a long-term study of key glaciers in western North America, reporting this month that glacial shrinkage is rapid and accelerating and a result of climate ...
Toxic legacy seeps from melting Alpine glaciers: study
Oct 14, 2009 |
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Swiss researchers have found that Alpine glaciers melting under the impact of climate change are releasing highly toxic pollutants that had been absorbed by the ice for decades.
Alaska glacier speed-up tied to internal plumbing issues
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 15, 2008 |
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A University of Colorado at Boulder study indicates meltwater periodically overwhelms the interior drainpipes of Alaska's Kennicott Glacier and causes it to lurch forward, similar to processes that may help ...
Mapping of Greenland may aid understanding of sea-level mystery
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 15, 2008 |
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A University of Alberta Arctic ice researcher is closing in on some real understanding about the process that might be feeding rising sea levels.
West Antarctic ice comes and goes, rapidly
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 18, 2009 |
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Researchers today worry about the collapse of West Antarctic ice shelves and loss of the West Antarctic ice sheet, but little is known about the past movements of this ice. Now climatologists from Penn State ...
'Whitewash' could slow global warming: Peruvian scientist
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 04, 2009 |
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A Peruvian scientist has called on his country to help slow the melting of Andean glaciers by daubing white paint on the rock and earth left behind by receding ice so they will absorb less heat.
Norwegian glaciers could melt completely
Apr 07, 2006 |
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Climate researchers predict that the approximately 1,600 Norwegian glaciers could melt completely away in course of the next 100 years. This would mean that only 28 glaciers would remain in the country.
Antarctica glacier retreat creates new carbon dioxide store
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 09, 2009 |
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Large blooms of tiny marine plants called phytoplankton are flourishing in areas of open water left exposed by the recent and rapid melting of ice shelves and glaciers around the Antarctic Peninsula. This ...
Scientists prepare for large-scale glacial floods (w/ Video)
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Surging floods as powerful as the Amazon could hit parts of Europe within decades, according to new research.
When it Comes to Sea Level Changing Glaciers, New NASA Technique Measures Up
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 06, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A NASA-led research team has used satellite data to make the most precise measurements to date of changes in the mass of mountain glaciers in the Gulf of Alaska, a region expected to be a ...
Close relationship between past warming and sea-level rise
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 22, 2009 |
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Scientists from the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, along with colleagues from Tuebingen and Bristol have reconstructed sea-level fluctuations over the last 520,000 years. Comparison of this record with data on ...
Long debate ended over cause, demise of ice ages -- may also help predict future
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 06, 2009 |
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Researchers have largely put to rest a long debate on the underlying mechanism that has caused periodic ice ages on Earth for the past 2.5 million years - they are ultimately linked to slight shifts in solar radiation caused ...
