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Mysteriously warm times in Antarctica

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Nov 18, 2009 | 4.2 / 5 (26) | 31

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study of Antarctica's past climate reveals that temperatures during the warm periods between ice ages (interglacials) may have been higher than previously thought. The latest analysis ...

Past regional cold and warm periods linked to natural climate drivers

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Nov 26, 2009 | 3.8 / 5 (19) | 28

Intervals of regional warmth and cold in the past are linked to the El Niño phenomenon and the so-called "North Atlantic Oscillation" in the Northern hemisphere's jet stream, according to a team of climate scientists. These ...

Newly drilled ice cores may be the longest taken from the Andes

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Nov 02, 2009 | 3.7 / 5 (3) | 0

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.

Big freeze plunged Europe into ice age in months

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Nov 30, 2009 | 3.9 / 5 (16) | 7

In the film, 'The Day After Tomorrow' the world enters the icy grip of a new glacial period within the space of just a few weeks. Now new research shows that this scenario may not be so far from the truth after all.

Supervolcano eruption -- in Sumatra -- deforested India 73,000 years ago

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Nov 23, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (17) | 3

A new study provides "incontrovertible evidence" that the volcanic super-eruption of Toba on the island of Sumatra about 73,000 years ago deforested much of central India, some 3,000 miles from the epicenter, ...

SOFIA Seeks Secrets of Planetary Birth

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Nov 19, 2009 | not rated yet | 1

You don't always have to have a rocket to do rocket science. Sometimes a mere airplane will do - that is, a mere Boeing 747 toting a 17-ton, 9-foot wide telescope named SOFIA.

NASA Supercomputer Ranks Among World's Fastest

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Nov 19, 2009 | 4 / 5 (4) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's premiere supercomputer located at Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., has garnered the sixth spot on the Top500 list of the world's most powerful computers.

LCROSS Impact Finds Water on the Moon

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Nov 13, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (31) | 15

(PhysOrg.com) -- The argument that the moon is a dry, desolate place no longer holds water. Secrets the moon has been holding, for perhaps billions of years, are now being revealed to the delight of scientists ...

Past climate of the northern Antarctic Peninsular informs global warming debate

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Nov 06, 2009 | 2.8 / 5 (9) | 1

The seriousness of current global warming is underlined by a reconstruction of climate at Maxwell Bay in the South Shetland Islands of the Antarctic Peninsula over approximately the last 14,000 years, which ...

Snows Of Kilimanjaro shrinking rapidly, and likely to be lost

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Nov 02, 2009 | 3.9 / 5 (7) | 3

The remaining ice fields atop famed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania could be gone within two decades and perhaps even sooner, based on the latest survey of the ice fields remaining on the mountain .

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