New Booklet About Modern Antarctic Science
The National Science Foundation’s Office of Polar Programs is making available a new full-color, extensively illustrated booklet that highlights the variety of cutting-edge science conducted in...
View ArticleResearchers refine assessment of tipping elements of the climate system
The West Antarctic ice sheet is a potential tipping element of the climate system that might have partially tipped already. According to a study now published in Climatic Change, experts can not rule...
View ArticleStronger ocean circulation and increased melting under Pine Island Glacier...
Stronger ocean currents beneath West Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf are eroding the ice from below, speeding the melting of the glacier as a whole, according to a new study in Nature...
View ArticleA World Centered on Sea Ice Is Changing Swiftly at the Poles
For eons, the polar marine food chain has been closely linked to the seasonal formation and retreat of sea ice. Now, as that ice rapidly melts in the Arctic and along the Antarctic Peninsula, this...
View ArticleAcceleration of outlet glaciers and ice flows in Greenland and Antarctica is...
“Water has a much larger heat capacity than air. If you put an ice cube in a warm room, it will melt in several hours. But if you put an ice cube in a cup of warm water, it will disappear in just...
View ArticleAn ice sheet on the move
ESA: 18 August 2011 A huge network of glaciers, carrying ice thousands of kilometres across Antarctica, has been discovered as a result of space agencies’ efforts to focus their satellites on Earth’s...
View ArticleAntarctic ice-sheet loss driven by basal melting of ice shelves
H. D. Pritchard, S. R. M. Ligtenberg, H. A. Fricker, D. G. Vaughan, M. R. van den Broeke & L. Padman Nature 484, 502–505 (26 April 2012) doi:10.1038/nature10968
View ArticleHow to teach … Polar meltdown
This week the Guardian Teacher Network has resources related to climate change and the Arctic meltdown. Enjoy.
View ArticleAntarctic rift subject of international attention
NASA: The ice shelf remained stable throughout the 2011 IceBridge campaign and in the months since then. Scientists around the world have been keeping tabs on the rift using various satellite...
View ArticleClearest evidence yet of polar ice losses
ESA: After two decades of satellite observations, an international team of experts brought together by ESA and NASA has produced the most accurate assessment of ice losses from Antarctica and Greenland...
View ArticleAntarctica`s ice loss on the rise
ESA: Three years of observations by ESA’s CryoSat satellite show that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is losing over 150 cubic kilometres of ice each year – considerably more than when last surveyed. The...
View ArticleWest Antarctic Glacier Loss Appears Unstoppable
NASA: A new study by researchers at NASA and the University of California, Irvine, finds a rapidly melting section of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appears to be in an irreversible state of decline,...
View ArticleIncreased ice losses from Antarctica detected by CryoSat-2
ScienceDaily: Three years of observations show that the Antarctic ice sheet is now losing 159 billion tons of ice each year — twice as much as when it was last surveyed. Scientists have now produced...
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