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Scientist develops lab machine to study glacial sliding related to rising sea levels
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 10, 2009 |
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Neal Iverson opened his laboratory's walk-in freezer and said the one-of-a-kind machine inside could help scientists understand how glaciers slide across their beds. And that could help researchers predict ...
Blubbery 'researchers' lend fin to climate science
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Apr 06, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Into the Antarctic enigma, the puzzle of a place with too few researchers chasing too many climate mysteries, slowly waddles the elephant seal.
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Alaska glacier speed-up tied to internal plumbing issues
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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 ...
Birth of an iceberg
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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 ...
Scientists prepare for large-scale glacial floods (w/ Video)
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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.
Experts warn glaciers in Indian Kashmir melting
Oct 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Indian Kashmir's glaciers are melting fast because of rising temperatures, threatening the water supply of millions of people in the Himalayan region, a new study by Indian scientists says.
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.
New Antarctic seabed sonar images reveal clues to sea-level rise
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May 05, 2009 |
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Motorway-sized troughs and channels carved into Antarctica's continental shelves by glaciers thousands of years ago could help scientists to predict future sea-level rise according to a report in the journal ...
Rapidly accelerating glaciers may increase how fast the sea level rises
Nov 14, 2005 |
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Satellite images show that, after decades of stability, a major glacier draining the Greenland ice sheet has dramatically increased its speed and retreated nearly five miles in recent years. These changes could contribute ...
Phantom limbs learn impossible tricks
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New research has shown that body images can be formed independently of external sensory inputs, and that the phantom limbs of amputees can be trained to carry out tasks that would be impossible ...
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.
Data show Antarctic ice stream radiating seismically
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Jun 04, 2008 |
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A seismologist at Washington University in St. Louis and colleagues at Pennsylvania State University and Newcastle University in the United Kingdom have found seismic signals from a giant river of ice in Antarctica ...
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