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Antarctic Melt Has Increased Tenfold Over Past 1,000 Years
By admin on Tuesday, April 16th, 2013 | Comments Off
Summer ice melt has increased tenfold over the last millennium in the Antarctic Peninsula, with most of the melt occurring during the last several decades in conjunction with global warming, new research suggests. Science News Headlines – Yahoo! News
Read More...Scientists find Antarctic ice is melting faster
By admin on Monday, April 15th, 2013 | Comments Off
CANBERRA (Reuters) – The summer ice melt in parts of Antarctica is at its highest level in 1,000 years, Australian and British researchers reported on Monday, adding new evidence of the impact of global warming on sensitive Antarctic glaciers and ice shelves. Researchers from the Australian National University and the British Antarctic Survey found data [...]
Read More...Antarctic ice grows as climate warms
By admin on Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013 | Comments Off
Counter-intuitively, global warming may be cooling the surface waters of the Southern Ocean, increasing the extent of Antarctic ice New Scientist – Online news
Read More...Melt ’causes Antarctic sea ice rise’
By admin on Monday, April 1st, 2013 | Comments Off
A paradoxical phenomenon involving more melt water may explain the recent expansion of Antarctic sea ice, scientists tell the journal Nature Geoscience. BBC News – Home
Read More...Penguins’ survival at stake as Antarctic ice disappears
By admin on Monday, March 11th, 2013 | Comments Off
Increasingly, experts say, Antarctic ice is disappearing at a disturbing rate and that in turn impacts the future — and perhaps the very existence — of at least half of the world’s 18 penguin species, who depend on ice and frigid waters that support krill, the penguin diet mainstay. NBCNews.com: World news
Read More...Russian scientists may have found new life under Antarctic ice
By admin on Thursday, March 7th, 2013 | Comments Off
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian scientists believe they have discovered new life forms sealed off for millions of years in a subglacial lake deep under the Antarctic ice, the RIA news agency reported on Thursday. After more than a decade of stop-and-go drilling, Russia pierced through Antarctica's frozen crust last year and took back samples of [...]
Read More...Antarctic lake yields ‘new life’
By admin on Thursday, March 7th, 2013 | Comments Off
Russian scientists say they have found a new type of bacterial life form in water from a buried Antarctic lake. BBC News – Science & Environment
Read More...Satellite Spies Unusual Antarctic Sea Ice
By admin on Saturday, March 2nd, 2013 | Comments Off
Strong winds make for strange sea ice patterns in the Southern Hemisphere. Livescience.com News Headlines – Yahoo! News
Read More...Frostbite Forces Adventurer to Quit Antarctic Trek
By admin on Monday, February 25th, 2013 | Comments Off
Seasoned adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes has had to quit his attempt to be the first person to cross the South Pole on skis during the brutal Antarctic winter. Livescience.com News Headlines – Yahoo! News
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