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Study: Shelf holding back key Antarctic glacier could break up in 5 years

Science News // 3 years ago

Study: Shelf holding back key Antarctic glacier could break up in 5 years

Scientists warned Monday that an ice shelf holding a crucial Antarctic glacier could break up within the next five years, potentially greatly increasing the rate of sea level rise.

Another month, another record sea ice low

Science News // 8 years ago

Another month, another record sea ice low

The extent of Arctic sea ice averaged 3.51 million square miles during November, a record low for the month.

Odd News // 1 decade ago

Coldest temperature on Earth: minus 136 degrees

A Colorado researcher told a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco he has recorded the lowest temperature on Earth in Antarctica.

Science News // 1 decade ago

Antarctica records record low temperature

U.S. scientists announced the lowest-ever temperature on Earth was recorded on the East Antarctica Plateau in August 2010 at negative 93 degrees Celsius.

Science News // 1 decade ago

Study reports more global warming evidence

U.S. researchers have used satellite imagery to determine a large part of the Antarctic ice shelf is disintegrating as result of climate change.

Science News // 1 decade ago

Antarctic ice shelf collapse explained

Welsh scientists have discovered global warming was only one of many factors leading to the 2002 collapse of a major Antarctic ice shelf.

Science News // 1 decade ago

Climate: A race through thick and thin ice

The interior of the East Antarctic ice sheet is gaining mass because of increased snowfall there, a development that should offset sea level rise from other sources around the globe.

Science News // 1 decade ago

Climate: The sea level-climate connection

A series by UPI examining the science and issues related to global climate change. This week: Shifts in sea level in the world's oceans are occurring more frequently and more rapidly than previously thought, strongly suggesting a direct link to climate ch

Science News // 2 decades ago

Climate: The debate is changing

A series examining the science behind and potential impact of global climate change. This week: The global warming debate is shifting in the United States in 2005, because evidence that the phenomenon is real has reached a crescendo.

Science News // 2 decades ago

Climate: Worrisome trends in Antarctica

A series by UPI examining the human role in and potential impact of global climate change. This week: New research suggests Antarctica is about to enter a period of rapid climate change, brought on by global warming.

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I'm amazed at how many feedbacks there are. I'd put some money on the shrinkage outpacing the thickening -- but that's just a hunch
Climate: A race through thick and thin ice May 23, 2005

Glaciers that were tributaries to the ice shelf accelerated -- not just slowly, but almost immediately by glacier standards
Climate: The sea level-climate connection Apr 18, 2005

We're beginning to push past the normal range of climate variability of the Holocene (post-Ice-Age period)
Climate: The debate is changing Jan 03, 2005

A warming climate in Antarctica is going to initiate a large, rapid change in the mass balance of the ice sheet
Climate: Worrisome trends in Antarctica Oct 11, 2004

Glaciers that were tributaries to the ice shelf accelerated, not just slowly, but almost immediately by glacier standards
Climate: Worrisome trends in Antarctica Oct 11, 2004