antarctic ice sheet Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 06 Sep 2017 17:30:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 According to a NASA Study The Antarctic Ice Sheet Gains More Mass Than It Loses https://www.greenoptimistic.com/according-nasa-study-antarctic-ice-sheet-gains-mass-looses-20170906/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/according-nasa-study-antarctic-ice-sheet-gains-mass-looses-20170906/#respond Wed, 06 Sep 2017 11:07:11 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=64123 An article from NASA updated a few days ago shows that a 2015 study has shown that the issue of the Antarctica Ice Sheet melting isn’t quite so grim as it may have appeared. It seems that, while it is true that large areas of the continent have lost some of their mass, Antarctica is […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/according-nasa-study-antarctic-ice-sheet-gains-mass-looses-20170906/feed/ 0 64123 Is Antarctica Melting? Yes, but It (Probably) Won’t Disappear https://www.greenoptimistic.com/antarctica-melting-disappear/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/antarctica-melting-disappear/#respond Mon, 14 Sep 2015 19:47:01 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=56630 Is Antarctica melting? Yes, and in fact, it is melting at a higher rate than other masses of ice around the world. Antarctica has been around for fifteen million years, but if humans do not stop burning fossil fuels, the continent could disappear for good. If all the fossil fuels stored within the Earth are burned, […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/antarctica-melting-disappear/feed/ 0 56630 Huge Amounts of Methane Stored Under Melting Antarctic Ice Sheet, Scientists Warn https://www.greenoptimistic.com/huge-amounts-of-methane-stored-under-melting-antarctic-ice-sheet-scientists-warn-20120829/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/huge-amounts-of-methane-stored-under-melting-antarctic-ice-sheet-scientists-warn-20120829/#respond Wed, 29 Aug 2012 19:12:27 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=25879 A paper published today in the journal Nature by scientists from various universities around the world warns that the methane trapped under the Antarctic Ice Sheet is a bomb ready to burst into the atmosphere with devastating effects for the environment and climate change. Their studies revealed that micro-organisms could have turned massive amounts of […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/huge-amounts-of-methane-stored-under-melting-antarctic-ice-sheet-scientists-warn-20120829/feed/ 0 25879 Global Warming Causing Antarctic Ice Sheets to Detach From Land https://www.greenoptimistic.com/antarctic-ice-sheets-detach-20120329/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/antarctic-ice-sheets-detach-20120329/#respond Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:11:14 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=23707 By analyzing 40 years worth of satellite imagery of West Antarctica, scientists from the University of Texas have recently concluded that the floating ice shelves are losing their grip on the bay walls that used to sustain them. This situation could worsen the loss of ice into the sea. “Typically, the leading edge of an ice […]

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