by faster | Jul 9, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: July 9, 2019 SNIP: Antarctica faces a tipping point where glacial melting will accelerate and become irreversible even if global heating eases, research suggests. A Nasa-funded study found instability in the Thwaites glacier meant there...
by faster | May 16, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: May 16, 2019 SNIP: Ice losses are rapidly spreading deep into the interior of the Antarctic, new analysis of satellite data shows. The warming of the Southern Ocean is resulting in glaciers sliding into the sea increasingly rapidly, with ice...
by faster | Jan 21, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: BBC DATE: January 21, 2019 SNIP: A keystone prey species in the Southern Ocean is retreating towards the Antarctic because of climate change. Krill are small, shrimp-like creatures that swarm in vast numbers and form a major part of the diets of whales,...
by faster | Apr 2, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: April 2, 2018 SNIP: Hidden underwater melt-off in the Antarctic is doubling every 20 years and could soon overtake Greenland to become the biggest source of sea-level rise, according to the first complete underwater map of the world’s...
by faster | Jun 28, 2017 | Blog
SOURCE: National Geographic DATE: June 28, 2017 SNIP: Seen from above, the Pine Island Ice Shelf is a slow-motion train wreck. Its buckled surface is scarred by thousands of large crevasses. Its edges are shredded by rifts a quarter mile across. In 2015 and 2016 a...
