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Antarctic glacier

West Antarctic ice sheet may not be losing ice as fast as once thought

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (10) | comments 4

New ground measurements made by the West Antarctic GPS Network (WAGN) project, composed of researchers from The University of Texas at Austin, The Ohio State University, and The University of Memphis, suggest ...


Global glacier melt continues

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 29, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (20) | comments 8

Glaciers around the globe continue to melt at high rates. Tentative figures for the year 2007, of the World Glacier Monitoring Service at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, indicate a further loss of average ice thickness ...


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An accurate picture of ice loss in Greenland

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 30, 2008 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (14) | comments 0

Researchers from TU Delft joined forces with the Center for Space Research (CSR) in Austin, Texas, USA, to develop a method for creating an accurate picture of Greenland's shrinking ice cap. On the strength ...





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Past climate of the northern Antarctic Peninsular informs global warming debate

Past climate of the northern Antarctic Peninsular informs global warming debate

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (8) | comments 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 ...


3 Questions: Sergey Paltsev on the costs of climate-change legislation

3 Questions: Sergey Paltsev on the costs of climate-change legislation

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (5) | comments 4

Sergey Paltsev, a principal research scientist in MIT’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, was the lead author of a recent report that analyzed the costs of climate legislation currently ...


Snows Of Kilimanjaro shrinking rapidly, and likely to be lost

Snows Of Kilimanjaro shrinking rapidly, and likely to be lost

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created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 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 .


Feds designate 'critical habitat' for polar bear (AP)

Feds designate polar bear habitat in Alaska

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(AP) -- The Obama administration said Thursday it is designating more than 200,000 square miles in Alaska and off its coast as "critical habitat" for polar bears, an action that could add restrictions to ...


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Penn State researchers promote pollinator-friendly native gardens

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Across the country, pollinators such as honeybees and hummingbirds are declining due to habitat loss, diseases such as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), pests and excessive pesticide use. Penn ...


On their trip, Pen Hadow (R) and Ann Daniels found the average thickness of the ice floes was 1.8 metres

Arctic ice cap 'to disappear in future summers'

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (31) | comments 21

The Arctic ice cap will disappear completely in summer months within 20 to 30 years, a polar research team said as they presented findings from an expedition led by adventurer Pen Hadow.


Minn. city's get-healthy effort called a success

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Hardware store owner and heart attack survivor Leo Aeikens spent most of his life with a hankering for meat, cheese and ice cream. But an ambitious effort aimed at making his entire southern Minnesota city healthier ...


A cow is covered with ash of the Chilean Chaiten volcano near the border town of Los Cipreses

Chilean eruption highlights risk from 'rhyolitic' volcanoes

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (13) | comments 0

Magma from a Chilean volcano shot through Earth's crust at around a metre (3.25 feet) per second, a speed highlighting the perils from so-called rhyolitic volcanoes, scientists reported on Wednesday.


Arctic sea ice recovers slightly in 2009, remains on downward trend, says U. of Colorado report

Arctic sea ice recovers slightly in 2009, remains on downward trend (w/ Video)

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created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (14) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite a slight recovery in summer Arctic sea ice in 2009 from record-setting low years in 2007 and 2008, the sea ice extent remains significantly below previous years and remains on a trend ...


Feds to decide on listing ice seals as threatened

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- A federal agency must decide within three weeks whether spotted seals, which depend on sea ice off Alaska's coast, should be listed as a threatened or endangered species.



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