News tagged with sheet
Catastrophic sea levels 'distinct possibility' this century: study
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 15, 2009 |
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A breakthrough study of fluctuations in sea levels the last time Earth was between ice ages, as it is now, shows that oceans rose some three meters in only decades due to collapsing ice sheets.
Ice Sheets Can Retreat 'In a Geologic Instant,' Study of Prehistoric Glacier Shows
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Modern glaciers, such as those making up the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, are capable of undergoing periods of rapid shrinkage or retreat, according to new findings by paleoclimatologists ...
Greenland ice sheet larger contributor to sea-level rise
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 12, 2009 |
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The Greenland ice sheet is melting faster than expected according to a new study led by a University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher and published in the journal Hydrological Processes.
Ice Age lesson predicts a faster rise in sea level
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 31, 2008 |
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If the lessons being learned by scientists about the demise of the last great North American ice sheet are correct, estimates of global sea level rise from a melting Greenland ice sheet may be seriously underestimated.
Sea level rise could be worse than anticipated
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 05, 2009 |
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If global warming some day causes the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to collapse, as many experts believe it could, the resulting sea level rise in much of the United States and other parts of the world would be ...
New wonder material, one-atom thick, has scientists abuzz
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 13, 2009 |
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Imagine a carbon sheet that's only one atom thick but is stronger than diamond and conducts electricity 100 times faster than the silicon in computer chips. That's graphene, the latest wonder material coming out ...
Small glaciers -- not large -- account for most of Greenland's recent loss of ice, study shows
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 15, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The recent dramatic melting and breakup of a few huge Greenland glaciers have fueled public concerns over the impact of global climate change, but that isn't the island's biggest problem.
Previously Unknown Volcanic Eruption Helped Trigger Cold Decade
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of chemists from the U.S. and France has found compelling evidence of a previously undocumented large volcanic eruption that occurred exactly 200 years ago, in 1809.
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Greenland ice cap melting faster than ever
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 12, 2009 |
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Satellite observations and a state-of-the art regional atmospheric model have independently confirmed that the Greenland ice sheet is loosing mass at an accelerating rate, reports a new study in Science.
Carbon nanotubes could act as an efficient music speaker
Nov 03, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- While carbon nanotubes are widely praised for their strength and electrical properties, no one has thoroughly investigated their acoustic properties, until now. A team of Chinese researchers ...
New data show much of Antarctica is warming more than previously thought
Jan 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists studying climate change have long believed that while most of the rest of the globe has been getting steadily warmer, a large part of Antarctica - the East Antarctic Ice Sheet - ...
Long debate ended over cause, demise of ice ages -- may also help predict future
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 06, 2009 |
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Researchers have largely put to rest a long debate on the underlying mechanism that has caused periodic ice ages on Earth for the past 2.5 million years - they are ultimately linked to slight shifts in solar radiation caused ...
Melting of the Greenland ice sheet mapped
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 16, 2009 |
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Will all of the ice on Greenland melt and flow out into the sea, bringing about a colossal rise in ocean levels on Earth, as the global temperature rises? The key concern is how stable the ice cap actually ...
West Antarctic ice comes and goes, rapidly
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 18, 2009 |
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Researchers today worry about the collapse of West Antarctic ice shelves and loss of the West Antarctic ice sheet, but little is known about the past movements of this ice. Now climatologists from Penn State ...
Scientists probe Antarctic glaciers for clues to past and future sea level
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 28, 2008 |
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Scientists from the U.S., U.K. and Australia have teamed up to explore two of the last uncharted regions of Earth, the Aurora and Wilkes Subglacial Basins, immense ice-buried lowlands in Antarctica with a combined area the ...
