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Unstable Antarctica: What’s Driving Ice Loss?

torsdag, 16. december 2010

Scientists have previously shown that West Antarctica is losing ice, but how that ice is lost remained unclear. Now, using…

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Deep ocean heat is rapidly melting Antarctic ice

torsdag, 16. december 2010

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Global warming is sneaky. For more than a century it has been hiding large amounts of excess heat in the…

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The Warming of Antarctica: A Citadel of Ice Begins to Melt

mandag, 22. november 2010

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The fringes of the coldest continent are starting to feel the heat, with the northern Antarctic Peninsula warming faster than…

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Polar Science Conference, Oslo June 2010

søndag, 6. juni 2010

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The IPY Oslo Science Conference is to demonstrate, strengthen, and extend IPY’s remarkable accomplishments in science and outreach.

Conference Website: http://ipy-osc.no/

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The…

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ESA: Radar images: B-9B iceberg ramming into the Mertz Glacier Tongue

fredag, 5. marts 2010

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credit: ESA

5 March 2010

This animation, made up of eight Envisat radar images, shows the 97-km long B-9B iceberg (right) ramming…

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Antarctic: Massive iceberg calves from the Mertz Glacier

fredag, 26. februar 2010

mertz glacier credit  Barbara Wienecke austarlia anatarcic division

credit: Barbara Wienecke

26 February 2010

A massive iceberg, measuring 78 kilometres long and 39 kilometres wide, has calved from the Mertz…

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