New weak point of Antarctic ice sheet found
London, May 10 (ANI): Climate researchers have predicted that the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf fringing the Weddell Sea, Antarctica, may start to melt rapidly in this century and no longer act as a...
View ArticleWest Antarctic Ice Sheet warming twice earlier estimate
A new analysis of temperature records indicates that the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet is warming nearly twice as fast as previously thought. US researchers say they found the first evidence of warming...
View ArticleNature of Antarctica's ice sheet revealed (15939271)
(Source: Victoria University of Wellington) Nature of Antarctica's ice sheet revealed 20 September 2012 Small changes in the temperature of the Southern Ocean can contribute to far-reaching changes on...
View ArticleAntarctic Area Thought Stable May Be at Risk From Ocean Currents
An Antarctic area previously thought stable may be at risk as ocean currents undermine a floating frozen shelf and threaten to push part of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet into retreat, according to...
View ArticleNature of Antarctica’s ice sheet revealed
Thursday, 20 September 2012, 1:19 pm Press Release: Victoria University of Wellington Nature of Antarctica’s ice sheet revealed Small changes in the temperature of the Southern Ocean can contribute to...
View ArticleWarm Ocean Currents Cause Majority Of Ice Loss From Antarctica
WASHINGTON, April 25, 2012 -- /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Warm ocean currents attacking the underside of ice shelves are the dominant cause of recent ice loss from Antarctica, a new study using...
View ArticleWarm ocean currents behind majority of ice loss from Antarctica
London, April 26 (ANI): Warm ocean currents attacking the underside of ice shelves are the dominant cause of recent ice loss from Antarctica, researchers have claimed. The finding brings scientists a...
View ArticleWarm sea water is melting Antarctic glaciers
A reduction of the ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland will affect the water levels of the world's oceans. It is therefore problematic that we currently have insufficient knowledge about the ocean...
View ArticleStudy finds warm ocean currents cause majority of ice loss from Antarctica
Researchers used 4.5 million measurements made by a laser instrument mounted on NASA's ICESat satellite to map the changing thickness of almost all the floating ice shelves around Antarctica,...
View ArticleTropical sea temperatures influence melting in Antarctica
Higher-than-normal sea-level pressure north of the Amundsen Sea sets up westerly winds that push surface water away from the glaciers and allow warmer deep water to rise to the surface under the edges...
View ArticleWarm ocean driving Antarctic ice loss
Most of the ice being lost from Antarctica is going as a result of warm water eating the fringes of the continent, scientists say. The researchers used a satellite laser to measure the thinning...
View ArticleTexas A&M Study Shows Ice Melt In Antarctica Aided By Warm Ocean Currents
COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Nov. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The melting rate of certain glaciers in Antarctica is unmistakably accelerating and the most direct link to global warming is in the...
View ArticleUnderlying ocean melts ice shelf, speeds up glacier movement (Penn State -...
(Source: Penn State - The Pennsylvania State University) UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Warm ocean water, not warm air, is melting the Pine Island Glacier'sfloating ice shelf in Antarctica and may be the...
View ArticleWarm ocean water main culprit behind melting ice shelf
Tweet Washington, Sept. 13 (ANI): Researchers have said that warm ocean water, and not warm air, is melting the Pine Island Glacier's floating ice shelf in Antarctica and could be blamed for increased...
View ArticleAntarctic Mission to Feature Robot Subs & Seals with Sensors
A team of British scientists is preparing for a mission to Antarctica — an ambitious journey that will involve sensor-carrying seals, seafaring robots and state-of-the-art radar technology — to...
View ArticleAmbitious science mission sets off for Antarctica (NERC - Natural...
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View ArticleWarm Water Under Antarctic Glacier Spurs Rapid Melting
A two-month-long expedition to one of the most remote sites on the planet — the sprawling Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica — has revealed that currents of warm water beneath the glacier are melting...
View ArticleVortex factor in E. Antarctica glacier melt
While the effects of climate change on glaciers, ice sheets and ice shelves of Arctic, and Western Antarctica have been extensively studied, there has been little gathering of data on East Antarctica...
View ArticleLa Niña Influences Melt of Major Antarctic Glacier
Though typically thought of as a tropical climate pattern, the influence of La Niña (the cold counterpart to El Niño) spreads as far as Antarctica, significantly slowing the melting rate of one of the...
View ArticleEl Niño tied to melting of Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier (University of...
(Source: University of Washington) January 2, 2014 Pine Island Glacier is one of the biggest routes for ice to flow from Antarctica into the sea. The floating ice shelf at the glacier's tip has been...
View ArticleEl Nino tied to melting of Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier (University of...
(Source: University of Washington) January 2, 2014 Pine Island Glacier is one of the biggest routes for ice to flow from Antarctica into the sea. The floating ice shelf at the glacier's tip has been...
View ArticleEl Nino may be behind melting of Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier
Tweet Washington, January 3 (ANI): The floating ice shelf at the tip of Pine Island Glacier, one of the biggest routes for ice to flow from Antarctica into the sea, has been melting and thinning for...
View ArticleSummer Ice Melt In Antarctica Is At The Highest Point In 1,000 Years,...
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...
View ArticleWest Antarctica Warming Twice As Fast As Previously Believed: Study
By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle OSLO, Dec 23 (Reuters) - West Antarctica is warming almost twice as fast as previously believed, adding to worries of a thaw that would add to sea level rise...
View ArticleAt the icy frontier
The fate of Antarctica will impact directly on our shores, and New Zealand experts are leading the way in science on the continent, reports Isaac Davison from Scott Base Our helicopter pilot is...
View ArticleClimate scientists discover new weak point of the Antarctic ice sheet
The results of the climate modelers from the Alfred Wegener Institute will come as a surprise to the professional world with the majority of experts assuming that the consequences of global warming...
View ArticleThe warming of West Antarctica
OSU researchers say melting worse than estimated Reuters...
View ArticleWest Antarctica warming fast‚ may quicken sea level rise - study
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View ArticleIt's the cable guys! Antarctic ice wired for long-distance calls
One of the most desolate spots on Earth recently got a visit from one of the most elusive characters on Earth — the cable guy. Four very high-tech and capable cable guys, to be specific. A small team...
View ArticleA climate window in the Southern Ocean
But what goes down must come back up, and its been a mystery where, and how, deep waters circulate back to the surface. Filling in this missing piece of the circulation, and developing theories and...
View ArticleWarm Ocean Waters to Blame for Antarctic Ice Melt
When it comes to melting ice shelves in Antarctica, the danger comes from below, new research suggests. By discovering the anatomy of ice loss across this chilly expanse, research may be able to...
View ArticleWest Antarctica warming fast
West Antarctica is warming almost twice as fast as previously believed, adding to worries of a thaw that would add to sea level rise from San Francisco to Shanghai, a study showed. Annual average...
View ArticleLess Snow Threatens Antarctica's Fragile Ice Shelves
Antarctica's summer meltwater ponds are beautiful killers. Given an escape route down to the ice, the sapphire-blue water jacks open fractures and crevasses in ice shelves, breaking them apart. Most...
View ArticleAntarctic's Ice Shelves Melting From the Bottom Up
Antarctica's ice shelves are losing it. Conventional wisdom holds that ice shelves—the seaward extension of glaciers on land—lose most of their mass by shedding icebergs. But new research finds that...
View ArticleWarm Ocean Accelerating Antarctic Ice Loss
Rosanne Skirble Summer ice loss in parts of Antarctica is at its highest in 1,000 years, according to a new study which finds that the melt is coming largely from underneath ice shelves, the floating...
View ArticleWarming Oceans Cause Bulk of Antarctic Ice Loss
Matthew Hilburn Most of the loss Antarctic ice is not caused by icebergs falling apart into the sea, but instead by warmer ocean waters underneath the massive ice shelves causing melting, according to...
View ArticleAntarctic Ice Shelves Melt Mostly From Below
When iceberg chunks break off of floating ice shelves, it can serve as dramatic proof of melting — and this traditionally has been considered the main way that these expanses of Antarctic ice become...
View ArticleHistory Repeating Itself at Antarctica's Fastest-Melting Glacier
It's no instant replay, but West Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier, one of the continent's fastest-changing ice streams, looks to be recreating 8,000-year-old history as it melts away, a new study...
View ArticleWest Antarctica warming fast, may quicken sea level rise: study
OSLO (Reuters) - West Antarctica is warming almost twice as fast as previously believed, adding to worries of a thaw that would add to sea level rise from San Francisco to Shanghai, a study showed on...
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