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Iceberg Scour Affects Biodiversity
Jul 17, 2008 |
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Antarctic worms, sea spiders, urchins and other marine creatures living in near-shore shallow habitats are regularly pounded by icebergs. New data suggests this environment along the Antarctic Peninsula is ...
'Monster' iceberg shedding hundreds of offshoots
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 14, 2009 |
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An island-sized iceberg is breaking up as it drifts closer to Australia, producing hundreds of smaller slabs spread over a massive area of ocean, experts said Monday.
Giant iceberg spotted south of Australia
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 09, 2009 |
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A monster iceberg nearly twice the size of Hong Kong island has been spotted drifting towards Australia in what scientists Wednesday called a once-in-a-century event.
Giant Antarctic iceberg heads towards N.Zealand: experts
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 12, 2009 |
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A giant iceberg twice the length of Beijing's "Bird's Nest" Stadium has been spotted floating off Australia and could be headed for New Zealand, scientists said on Thursday.
Iceberg crashes into Drygalski Ice Tongue
Apr 08, 2006 |
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An iceberg, C-16, rammed into the Drygalski Ice Tongue, a large sheet of glacial ice in Antarctica, breaking off a huge block and forming a new iceberg.
Envisat Captures Splitting iIceberg
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 14, 2008 |
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Envisat captures the break up of the massive A53A iceberg located just east of the South Georgia Island (visible at image bottom) in the southern Atlantic Ocean.
Iceberg B15A no longer Earth's largest
Nov 07, 2005 |
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What was the Earth's largest free-floating object for five years -- the B-15A iceberg -- has broken into smaller pieces off Antarctica's Cape Adare.
Winds drive icebergs away from New Zealand
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 01, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Strong westerly winds in the southern Pacific Ocean have driven scores of icebergs originally headed toward New Zealand to the east, away from the country, an oceanographer said Tuesday.
Birth of an iceberg
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 19, 2007 |
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New images, acquired by Envisat’s Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) instrument, show the breaking away of a giant iceberg from the Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica. Spanning 34 km in length by ...
Ships warned about icebergs headed for New Zealand
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 25, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Ships are on alert and maritime authorities are monitoring the movements of hundreds of menacing icebergs drifting toward New Zealand in the southern Pacific Ocean, officials said.
Icebergs head from Antarctica for New Zealand
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 24, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Ships in the south Pacific Ocean have been alerted that hundreds of icebergs believed to have split off Antarctic ice shelves are drifting north toward New Zealand, officials said Tuesday.
Sociologist Says This Month's Family Murder-Suicides Only 'the Tip of the Iceberg'
Jan 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A family sociologist at the University at Buffalo says this month's murder-suicides involving a family of four in Ohio and a family of five in California may be "just the tip of the iceberg."
Antarctic Demolition is Underway: Scientists witness hundreds of cracks in the sea ice
Jan 20, 2005 |
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Car demolition derbies last minutes, but when it comes to a giant iceberg near Antarctica it takes a bit longer. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board the Terra and Aqua satellites ...
Brain energy use key to understanding consciousness
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 16, 2009 |
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High levels of brain energy are required to maintain consciousness, a finding which suggests a new way to understand the properties of this still mysterious state of being, Yale University researchers report.
Speed matters for ice-shelf breaking
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 27, 2008 |
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It won't help the Titanic, but a newly derived, simple law may help scientists improve their climate models and glaciologists predict where icebergs will calve off from their parent ice sheets, according to a team of Penn ...
