By Chris Wickham; Editing by Janet Lawrence9 May 2012 LONDON (Reuters) – Scientists are predicting the disappearance of another vast ice shelf in Antarctica by the end of the century that will accelerate rising sea levels. The Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf fringing the Weddell Sea on the eastern side of Antarctica has so far not seen […]
By Tamera Jones4 May 2012 Scientists have long been concerned that the massive West Antarctic Ice Sheet could collapse if global temperatures keep climbing. If it did, sea levels are predicted to rise by as much as five metres. Now, genetic evidence from an Antarctic octopus reveals that this may have happened at some point […]
By Jonathan Bamber, www.guardian.co.uk 15 April 2012 Glaciers are one of the natural environments most often used to illustrate the impacts of climate change. It is fairly indisputable that in a warming world, glaciers melt faster. Yet two recent studies published in top scientific journals (more here and here) suggest that in the Himalayas the […]
By Pete Spotts, Staff writer 5 April 2012 Rising levels of carbon dioxide drove much of the global warming that thawed Earth at the end of the last ice age. That’s the conclusion a team of scientists has drawn in a new study examining the factors that closed the door on the last ice age, […]
By Wynne Parry, LiveScience5 April 2012 As a European satellite enters its second decade in orbit, it continues to observe the retreat of an Antarctic ice sheet, which has been dwindling due to warming. The satellite, Envisat, was launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) on March 1, 2002. One of its first observations was […]
By Michael Marshall, environment reporter9 February 2012 What on Earth is going on with the world’s glaciers? Reports today suggest that the Himalayan glaciers have not lost any [as much –Des] mass in the last decade [as previously thought –Des]. But while that comes as a real surprise, the global pattern remains basically the same. […]
Contact: Dr. Gerhard Kuhn (tel.: +49 (0)471 4831-1204; e-mail: Gerhard.Kuhn(at)awi.de) and in the press office Ralf Röchert (tel.: +49 (0)471 4831-1680; e-mail: Ralf.Roechert(at)awi.de)1 December 2011 Bremerhaven – The end of the last ice age and the processes that led to the melting of the northern and southern ice sheets supply basic information on changes in […]
“A lot of times when you’re in science, you don’t get a chance to catch the big stories as they happen because you’re not there at the right place at the right time. But this time we were,” John Sonntag, a scientist with the NASA survey team that captured the data said in a video […]
By IB Times Staff Reporter26 October 2011 Scientists are closely watching Antarctica’s fast-flowing Thwaites Glacier, as they say its retreat is expected to speed up within 20 years when it separates from an underwater ridge that is presently holding it back. Columbia University researchers said scientists are keeping a keen eye on Thwaites Glacier, which […]
By Andy Coghlan7 September 2011 Huge crabs more than a metre across have invaded the Antarctic abyss, wiped out the local wildlife and now threaten to ruin ecosystems that have evolved over 14 million years. Three years ago, researchers predicted that as the deep waters of the Southern Ocean warmed, king crabs would invade Antarctica […]
