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Map Shows Cities Climate Change Disaster Would Destroy
A terrifying map has outlined large swaths of the U.S. at risk of being wiped out in the event the “doomsday glacier” melts, ...
Antarctic research is in decline, and the timing couldn’t be worse
Ice loss in Antarctica and its impact on the planet – sea level rise, changes to ocean currents and disturbance of wildlife ...
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Arctic tern numbers down nearly a third at key breeding site, experts warn
Arctic and little terns, and ringed plover, breed and nest on the fragile dunes and beaches at Long Nanny, monitored by seven ...
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Something Under the Ice is Moving - NASA Earth Observatory
Scambos and his colleagues had created the Mosaic of Antarctica map by layering hundreds of digital images of Antarctica taken by Aqua and Terra MODIS between late 2003 and early 2004. To help Fricker ...
Old aerial photos give scientists a new tool to predict sea level rise
On 28 November 1966, an American airplane flies over the Antarctic Peninsula just south of the southernmost tip of Chile. On ...
Antarctic summer sea ice is at record lows. Here's how it will harm the planet, and us
On her first dedicated scientific voyage to Antarctica in March, the Australian icebreaker RSV Nuyina found the area sea-ice ...
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Antarctic sea ice collapse linked to a sudden surge in ocean salt
A sudden salinity spike in the Southern Ocean is accelerating Antarctic ice loss and triggering a dangerous climate feedback ...
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See Earth’s Forests as Never Before in Biomass Satellite’s First Images
New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon through our planet’s most precious and remote ecosystems ...
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Antarctic ice infographic (IMAGE)
Extreme lows in sea ice induce many changes in the physical, ecological, and societal systems of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. A: an average sea ice summer. B: an extreme low sea ice summer. In B ...
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Shrinking Antarctic sea ice is warming the ocean faster than expected
Antarctic sea ice extent has fallen dramatically in recent years – the effects include accelerated ocean warming, faster loss ...
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NASA makes surprising discovery after capturing satellite image of the Arctic: 'Implications of this loss are far-reaching'
NASA's Terra satellite recently captured the seasonal breakup of sea ice in Canada's Amundsen Gulf, according to NASA's Earth ...
Near Antarctica, Saltier Seas Mean Less Ice, Study Finds
A study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that increases in salinity in seawater near the surface could help explain some of the decrease in Antarctic sea ...