by faster | Feb 5, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: Garn Press DATE: February 5, 2018 SNIP: The key question, as I see it, is how to project what the sea level will soon be due to ice sheet melting. But this is confounded by us not really knowing what to expect. We keep being surprised by nature being more...
by faster | Dec 20, 2017 | Blog
SOURCE: American Geophysical Union (AGU) DATE: December 20, 2017 SNIP: New research shows algae growing on the Greenland ice sheet, the Earth’s second-largest ice sheet, significantly reduce the surface reflectivity of the ice sheet’s bare ice area and contribute more...
by faster | Oct 31, 2017 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: October 31, 2017 SNIP: A British research station in Antarctica is being shut down for the second winter in a row following concerns over growing cracks in the 150-metre thick ice shelf on which it stands. The Halley VI station, which is...
by faster | Oct 11, 2017 | Blog
SOURCE: Washington Post DATE: October 11, 2017 SNIP: A new scientific study published Tuesday has found that warm ocean water is carving an enormous channel into the underside of one of the key floating ice shelves of West Antarctica, the most vulnerable sector of the...
by faster | Oct 4, 2017 | Blog
SOURCE: Washington Post DATE: October 4, 2017 SNIP: Two new studies of Greenland, using sophisticated technologies and large scientific teams to pull together and process the data, have now gone further in taking the full measure of the island through that...
