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Melting threat from West Antarctic Ice Sheet less than previously believed
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May 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- While a total or partial collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet as a result of warming would not raise global sea levels as high as some predict, levels on the U.S. seaboards would rise 25 percent more ...
West Antarctic ice comes and goes, rapidly
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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 ...
Greenland's glaciers losing ice faster this year than last year, which was record-setting itself
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Dec 15, 2008 |
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Researchers watching the loss of ice flowing out from the giant island of Greenland say that the amount of ice lost this summer is nearly three times what was lost one year ago.
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Giant Antarctic iceberg heads towards N.Zealand: experts
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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.
'Webcam' from Space: Envisat observing Wilkins Ice Shelf
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Dec 12, 2008 |
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In light of recent developments that threaten to lead to the break-up of the Wilkins Ice Shelf, ESA is making daily satellite images of the ice shelf available to the public via the 'Webcam' from Space web ...
Geologists to discuss historic ice core
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Apr 26, 2007 |
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An Antarctic core with unprecedented geological detail of the Ross Ice Shelf will be featured during a U.S. international geology meeting.
Computer model documents the history of the West Antarctic ice sheet
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Aug 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- One major threat of planetary warming is the melting of the great polar ice sheets, and the resulting rise in global sea level. Particularly worrisome to researchers is the fragility of the ...
'Finger rafting:' Ice sheets that mesh when they meet
Mar 02, 2007 |
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A study reported in Physical Review Letters demonstrates how ice sheets sometimes interlace when they meet, rather than riding over or under each other, and discusses the implications for other phenomena from p ...
Wilkins Ice Shelf under threat
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Nov 28, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New rifts have developed on the Wilkins Ice Shelf that could lead to the opening of the ice bridge that has been preventing the ice shelf from disintegrating and breaking away from the Antarctic ...
Study: Icebergs create ocean 'hot spots'
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Jun 20, 2007 |
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A U.S. study suggests Antarctic icebergs created by global climate change are having a major ecological impact.
Greenland and Antarctic ice sheet melting, rate unknown
Feb 16, 2009 |
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The Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets are melting, but the amounts that will melt and the time it will take are still unknown, according to Richard Alley, Evan Pugh professor of geosciences, Penn State.
New research provides insight into ice sheet behavior
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Jul 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study published this week takes scientists a step further in their quest to understand how Antarctica's vast glaciers will contribute to future sea-level rise. Reporting in the journal ...
Melting of Floating Ice Will Raise Sea Level
Aug 04, 2005 |
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When ice on land slides into the ocean, it displaces ocean water and causes sea level to rise. People believe that when this floating ice melts, water level doesn’t rise an additional amount because the freshwater ice displaces ...
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