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 3, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: Phys.org DATE: January 3, 2019 SNIP: The Greenland Ice Sheet emits tons of methane according to a new study, showing that subglacial biological activity impacts the atmosphere far more than previously thought. An international team of researchers led by the...
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 | Nov 12, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: NewsAsia DATE: November 13, 2018 SNIP: Even modest temperature rises agreed under an international plan to limit climate disaster could see the ice caps melt enough this century for their loss to be “irreversible”, experts warned on Monday (Nov...
by faster | Mar 28, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: The Washington Post DATE: March 28, 2018 SNIP: Scientists who crossed western Greenland with a fleet of snowmobiles, pulling up long cylinders of ice at camps a little more than a mile above sea level, have found evidence that the vast sheet of ice is melting...