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Dust may settle unanswered questions on Antarctica
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 29, 2009 |
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Dust trapped deep in Antarctic ice sheets is helping scientists unravel details of past climate change.
New Ice Age maps point to climate change patterns
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New climate maps of the Earth’s surface during the height of the last Ice Age support predictions that northern Australia will become wetter and southern Australia drier due to climate change.
Melting of the Greenland ice sheet mapped
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Sep 16, 2009 |
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Will all of the ice on Greenland melt and flow out into the sea, bringing about a colossal rise in ocean levels on Earth, as the global temperature rises? The key concern is how stable the ice cap actually ...
Small mammals have a 'Celtic fringe' too
Sep 30, 2009 |
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The origin of the 'Celtic fringe' of genetically and culturally distinctive people in the northern and western British Isles is the source of fierce academic controversy.
The least sea ice in 800 years
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Jul 01, 2009 |
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New research, which reconstructs the extent of ice in the sea between Greenland and Svalbard from the 13th century to the present indicates that there has never been so little sea ice as there is now. The ...
Tahiti corals clue to 'dynamic' glaciers
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Fossilised corals from tropical Tahiti show that the behaviour of ice sheets is much more volatile and dynamic than previously thought, a team led by Oxford University scientists has found.
Sea level rise of 1 meter within 100 years
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Jan 08, 2009 |
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New research indicates that the ocean could rise in the next 100 years to a meter higher than the current sea level - which is three times higher than predictions from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...
Avoiding the hothouse and the icehouse
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 11, 2009 |
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By controlling emissions of fossil fuels we may be able to greatly delay the start of the next ice age, new research from the Niels Bohr Institute at University of Copenhagen concludes. The results have been ...
Steppe change: Mammoths roamed southern Spain
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 09, 2009 |
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Remains of woolly mammoths have been found in southern Spain, proving that the chilly grip of the last Ice Age extended farther south than thought, palaeontologists said on Thursday.
Silica algae reveal how ecosystems react to climate changes
Mar 09, 2009 |
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A newly published dissertation by Linda Ampel from the Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology at Stockholm University in Sweden examined how rapid climate changes during the most recent ice ...
Ice cores map dynamics of sudden climate changes
Jun 19, 2008 |
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New, extremely detailed data from investigations of ice cores from Greenland show that the climate shifted very suddenly and changed fundamentally during quite few years when the ice age ended. Researchers ...
Geologists demonstrate extent of ancient ice age
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Jun 16, 2009 |
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Geologists at the University of Leicester have shown that an ancient Ice Age, once regarded as a brief ‘blip’, in fact lasted for 30 million years.
Long debate ended over cause, demise of ice ages -- may also help predict future
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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 ...
Newly drilled ice cores may be the longest taken from the Andes
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Nov 02, 2009 |
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Researchers spent two months this summer high in the Peruvian Andes and brought back two cores, the longest ever drilled from ice fields in the tropics.
Arctic sea ice recovers slightly in 2009, remains on downward trend (w/ Video)
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Oct 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite a slight recovery in summer Arctic sea ice in 2009 from record-setting low years in 2007 and 2008, the sea ice extent remains significantly below previous years and remains on a trend ...
