by faster | Dec 18, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: Science DATE: December 18, 2018 SNIP: Some 125,000 years ago, during the last brief warm period between ice ages, Earth was awash. Temperatures during this time, called the Eemian, were barely higher than in today’s greenhouse-warmed world. Yet proxy records...
by faster | Oct 30, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: Earther DATE: October 30, 2018 SNIP: The Pine Island Glacier has been breaking off monstrous icebergs over the past five years, presenting a worrying sign that the West Antarctic is destabilizing. The latest occurred this weekend. Satellite imagery shows an...
by faster | Nov 21, 2017 | Blog
SOURCE: Grist DATE: November 21, 2017 SNIP: The glaciers of Pine Island Bay are two of the largest and fastest-melting in Antarctica. (A Rolling Stone feature earlier this year dubbed Thwaites “The Doomsday Glacier.”) Together, they act as a plug holding back enough...
by faster | Sep 25, 2017 | Blog
SOURCE: The Washington Post, Yale e360 DATE: September 25, 2017 SNIP: An enormous Antarctic glacier has given up an iceberg over 100 square miles in size, the second time in two years it has lost such a large piece in a process that has scientists wondering whether...
