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NASA Gets New Eye to Watch Earth’s Ice Melt

Matthew Fiala — Tue, 18 Sep 2018 16:33:17 +0000

If everything goes as planned today, climate scientists will have a new satellite in the sky to keep a close watch on the melting of Earth’s ice. The new satellite, called ICESat-2, is scheduled to launch in California at 5:46 a.m. Pacific time. The launch will be shown live on nasa.gov. The satellite’s predecessor, ICESat, […]

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Big Hole in Russia Appearing Due to Climate Change

Benji Jerew — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 19:20:36 +0000

Thanks to ever-increasing amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that human activity is pumping into the atmosphere, climate change is increasing average temperatures globally. In the arctic, some point to disappearing ice shelves and methane plumes as proof that climate change is happening. In the permafrost of the Russian steppe, people point at […]

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Sea Level Rise Accelerating Due to Climate Change

Benji Jerew — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 14:13:24 +0000

While it has been long known that climate change is effecting sea level rise, it seems that the measurements haven’t been quite accurate over the last century, making recent corrections a cause for alarm. There’s a good reason that “climate change” was previously referred to as “global warming,” because global temperatures are rising. Some have […]

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Satellite Mission Reveals Antarctica’s Ice Melts Cause Change in Earth’s Gravity

Mila Luleva — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 08:44:07 +0000

Satellite imagery can now help scientists determine the amount of ice lost from Antarctica by presenting exact measurements of the gravity of the Earth. European Space Agency’s latest the Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) mission revealed that melting of ice sheets has caused deviation in the planet’s gravitational norm. It has been long […]

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‘Greener’ Arctic Will Cause Raise in Global Temperature, Study Claims

Mila Luleva — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 18:22:39 +0000

According to recent research published in Nature Climate Change earlier this week, The Arctic is about to become ‘greener’ due to global rise in temperatures. The team, led by Richard Pearson, a research scientist at the American Museum of Natural History’s Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, conducted a series of model simulations based on data […]

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Bedmap2 Model Reveals Antarctic Ice’s Unknown Secrets

Mila Luleva — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 18:47:26 +0000

A new model developed by the British Antarctic Survey in collaboration with various international contributors, gives the opportunity to everyone to observe what happens beneath the ice cover in Antarctica. The model called Bedmap2, uses cartographic data, radio echo sounding measurements, satellite readings and seismic techniques. The result is a picture of a scenery that has […]

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Study Reveals How Carbon Dioxide Accelerates Glacial Melting

Benji Jerew — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:52:04 +0000

Scientists already agree that rising man-made carbon-dioxide [CO2] is effecting the global warming phenomenon, with the implications of more extreme weather patterns and higher-than-average sea ice and glacial melting. With respect to the ice caps and glaciers, which take up 7% of the world’s land surface area, it is well-known that they play an important […]

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Research Shows How Fast Glaciers Respond to Climate Change

Benji Jerew — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 04:51:12 +0000

We may be familiar with the saying, “at a glacier’s pace,” but when it comes to climate change, new research is showing a surprising response. “One of the questions scientists have been asking is how long it takes for these huge chunks of ice to respond to a global climate phenomenon,” said study co-author Jason […]

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Arctic Ice Reduction Responsible for Recent Cold Winters in Northern Hemisphere, Says Georgia Tech

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:23:01 +0000

Global warming doesn’t necessarily refer to the actual warming of the planet. There are places on Earth where excessive warming determines cooling in other places. The reduction of the Arctic Ocean’s ice surface generated by climate warming could constitute an explanation for the snow and frost of the latest years in Europe and some Northern […]

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Ice Melt Due To Global Warming Could Trigger Colder Winters In Northern Regions, Study Claims

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 15:10:41 +0000

Previewing floods, droughts, heat waves and rising sea levels, a U.N. panel of climate scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research warned that the global warming and the melting of sea ice could actually bring harsher winters over Europe and northern Asia.

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