News articles tagged with 'Antarctica'
Some Antarctic ice is forming from bottom
— 4 Mar 2011 16:24 | EnvironmentScientists working in the remotest part of Antarctica have discovered that liquid water locked deep under the continent's coat of ice regularly thaws and refreezes to the bottom, creating…
New interpretation of Antarctic ice cores
— 3 Mar 2011 14:38 | EnvironmentClimate researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association (AWI) expand a prevalent theory regarding the development of ice ages.…
Ice cores yield rich history of climate change
— 3 Feb 2011 17:27 | EnvironmentOn Friday, Jan. 28 in Antarctica, a research team investigating the last 100,000 years of Earth's climate history reached an important milestone completing the main ice core to a depth…
Climate change to continue to year 3000 in best case scenarios
— 9 Jan 2011 19:13 | EnvironmentNew research indicates the impact of rising CO2 levels in the Earth's atmosphere will cause unstoppable effects to the climate for at least the next 1000 years, causing researchers…
Is the ice at the South Pole melting?
— 30 Oct 2010 16:29 | EnvironmentThe change in the ice mass covering Antarctica is a critical factor in global climate events. Scientists at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences have now found that the year…
UBC underwater robot to explore ice-covered ocean and Antarctic ice shelf
— 14 Oct 2010 10:18 | EnvironmentResearchers at the University of British Columbia are deploying an underwater robot to survey ice-covered ocean in Antarctica from October 17 through November 12…
Study adds new clue to how last ice age ended
— 9 Sep 2010 11:00 | Geology and palaeontologyAs the last ice age was ending, about 13,000 years ago, a final blast of cold hit Europe, and for a thousand years or more, it felt like the ice age had returned. But oddly, despite…
Melting rate icecaps Greenland and Western Antarctica lower than expected
— 6 Sep 2010 16:34 | EnvironmentThe Greenland and West Antarctic ice caps are melting at half the speed previously predicted. This finding has emerged from research by a joint US/Dutch team from the Jet Propulsion…
Scientist links increase in greenhouse gases to changes in ocean currents
— 18 Jun 2010 15:01 | EnvironmentBy examining 800,000-year-old polar ice, scientists increasingly are learning how the climate has changed since the last ice melt and that carbon dioxide has become more abundant in…
Scientists call for a new strategy for polar ocean observation
— 18 Jun 2010 13:50 | EnvironmentIn a report published in this week's issue of Science, a team of oceanographers, including MBL (Marine Biological Laboratory) Ecosystems Centre director Hugh Ducklow, outline a polar…