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Ice Bridge Supporting Wilkins Ice Shelf Collapses

Ice Bridge Supporting Wilkins Ice Shelf Collapses

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (34) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- An ice bridge connecting the Wilkins Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula to Charcot Island has disintegrated. The event continues a series of breakups that began in March 2008 on the ice ...


Wilkins Ice Shelf under threat

Wilkins Ice Shelf under threat

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created Nov 28, 2008 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (23) | comments 9

(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 ...


Wilkins Ice Shelf hanging by its last thread

Wilkins Ice Shelf hanging by its last thread

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created Jul 10, 2008 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (27) | comments 12

The Wilkins Ice Shelf is experiencing further disintegration that is threatening the collapse of the ice bridge connecting the shelf to Charcot Island. Since the connection to the island in the image centre ...





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'Webcam' from Space: Envisat observing Wilkins Ice Shelf

'Webcam' from Space: Envisat observing Wilkins Ice Shelf

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 12, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1

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 ...


NASA flies over Antarctica to measure icemelt

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (9) | comments 1

(AP) -- Hoping to better understand how a melting Antarctica could swamp the planet, a NASA plane outfitted with lasers and ground-penetrating radar made its first flight over the icy continent on Friday.


Satellite imagery shows fragile Wilkins Ice Shelf destabilised

Icebergs break away from Antarctic iceshelf

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created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (16) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Satellite images show that icebergs have begun to calve from the northern front of the Wilkins Ice Shelf - indicating that the huge shelf has become unstable. This follows the collapse three ...


Collapse of the ice bridge supporting Wilkins Ice Shelf appears imminent

Collapse of the ice bridge supporting Wilkins Ice Shelf appears imminent

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created Apr 03, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (74) | comments 14

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Wilkins Ice Shelf is at risk of partly breaking away from the Antarctic Peninsula as the ice bridge that connects it to Charcot and Latady Islands looks set to collapse. The beginning ...


NASA flies to Antarctica for largest airborne polar ice survey

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created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

NASA begins a series of flights Oct. 15 to study changes to Antarctica's sea ice, glaciers and ice sheets. The flights are part of Operation Ice Bridge, a six-year campaign that is the largest airborne survey ever made of ...


Global warming creates an island

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created Apr 24, 2007 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (20) | comments 0

An island has separated from mainland Greenland because of global climate change.


Researchers Develop Wireless Bridge Sensors Without Batteries

Researchers Develop Wireless Bridge Sensors Without Batteries

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 17, 2007 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Clarkson University researchers have developed technology that uses the vibrations caused by passing traffic to power wireless bridge monitoring sensors.


Peering under the ice of a collapsing polar coast

Peering under the ice of a collapsing polar coast

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Starting this month, a giant NASA DC-8 aircraft loaded with geophysical instruments and scientists will buzz at low level over the coasts of West Antarctica, where ice sheets are collapsing at a pace far beyond ...


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'Super-river' formed the English Channel

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created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Anglo-French scientists studying sedimentary deposits in the Bay of Biscay have concluded that Britain and France were separated by a "super-river" during three periods of glaciations, ...


NASA flies to Greenland to extend polar science

NASA flies to Greenland to extend polar science

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created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Imagine a piece of ice 1,000 miles long, 400 miles wide, and 2 miles thick in the center. That's the Greenland ice sheet. But that island-sized piece of ice is melting, so NASA researchers are flying to the ...



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