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Image: Crack discovered in Pine Island Glacier
(PhysOrg.com) -- In mid-October 2011, NASA scientists working in Antarctica discovered a massive crack across the Pine Island Glacier, a major ice stream that drains the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Extending ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 01, 2012 |
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Huge Antarctic iceberg foils centenary plans
An iceberg nearly 100 kilometres (60 miles) long was Wednesday preventing tourist ships from reaching Antarctica to mark the centenary of Australian explorer Douglas Mawson's epic polar voyage.
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Dec 21, 2011 |
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Ice sheets can expand in a geologic instant, Arctic study shows
(PhysOrg.com) -- A fast-moving glacier on the Greenland Ice Sheet expanded in a geologic instant several millennia ago, growing in response to cooling periods that lasted not much longer than a century, according ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 14, 2011 |
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Rapid retreat of Chile glacier captured in images
(AP) -- Researchers in Chile released a series of time-lapse photos Wednesday showing the dramatic retreat of a glacier in Patagonia.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 08, 2011 |
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Scientists watch birth of huge Antarctic iceberg
A new iceberg is forming in western Antarctica, and it's a big one.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 17, 2011 |
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Watching the birth of an iceberg
(PhysOrg.com) -- After discovering an emerging crack that cuts across the floating ice shelf of Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica, NASA's Operation IceBridge has flown a follow-up mission and made the first-ever ...
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Nov 02, 2011 |
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Team says Arctic ice shelf broke up before
(PhysOrg.com) -- Arctic shelf ice has been in the news of late due to its shrinkage over the past few decades that most attribute to global warning. Thus, its levels and seemingly constant calving have become ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 25, 2011 |
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Extreme melting on Greenland ice sheet, team reports
The Greenland ice sheet can experience extreme melting even when temperatures don't hit record highs, according to a new analysis by Dr. Marco Tedesco, assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 25, 2011 |
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Tohoku tsunami created icebergs in Antarctica
A NASA scientist and her colleagues were able to observe for the first time the power of an earthquake and tsunami to break off large icebergs a hemisphere away.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 08, 2011 |
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Fast-shrinking Greenland glacier experienced rapid growth during cooler times
Large, marine-calving glaciers have the ability not only to shrink rapidly in response to global warming, but to grow at a remarkable pace during periods of global cooling, according to University at Buffalo geologists working ...
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Jul 14, 2011 |
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