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Icebergs break away from Antarctic iceshelf
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Apr 28, 2009 |
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(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 ...
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Icebergs head from Antarctica for New Zealand
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Nov 24, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Ships in the south Pacific Ocean have been alerted that hundreds of icebergs believed to have split off Antarctic ice shelves are drifting north toward New Zealand, officials said Tuesday.
Winds drive icebergs away from New Zealand
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(AP) -- Strong westerly winds in the southern Pacific Ocean have driven scores of icebergs originally headed toward New Zealand to the east, away from the country, an oceanographer said Tuesday.
Study: Icebergs create ocean 'hot spots'
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Jun 20, 2007 |
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A U.S. study suggests Antarctic icebergs created by global climate change are having a major ecological impact.
Ships warned about icebergs headed for New Zealand
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Nov 25, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Ships are on alert and maritime authorities are monitoring the movements of hundreds of menacing icebergs drifting toward New Zealand in the southern Pacific Ocean, officials said.
Giant Antarctic iceberg heads towards N.Zealand: experts
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Nov 12, 2009 |
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A giant iceberg twice the length of Beijing's "Bird's Nest" Stadium has been spotted floating off Australia and could be headed for New Zealand, scientists said on Thursday.
Iceberg Scour Affects Biodiversity
Jul 17, 2008 |
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Antarctic worms, sea spiders, urchins and other marine creatures living in near-shore shallow habitats are regularly pounded by icebergs. New data suggests this environment along the Antarctic Peninsula is ...
Envisat Captures Splitting iIceberg
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Mar 14, 2008 |
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Envisat captures the break up of the massive A53A iceberg located just east of the South Georgia Island (visible at image bottom) in the southern Atlantic Ocean.
Antarctic icebergs -- Hotspots of ocean life
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Jun 21, 2007 |
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Global climate change is causing Antarctic ice shelves to shrink and split apart, yielding thousands of free-drifting icebergs in the nearby Weddell Sea. According to a new study in this week’s journal Science these ...
Speed matters for ice-shelf breaking
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Nov 27, 2008 |
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It won't help the Titanic, but a newly derived, simple law may help scientists improve their climate models and glaciologists predict where icebergs will calve off from their parent ice sheets, according to a team of Penn ...
Sediment yields climate record for past half-million years
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Jun 15, 2009 |
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Researchers here have used sediment from the deep ocean bottom to reconstruct a record of ancient climate that dates back more than the last half-million years.
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