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Study: 'Major decline' in Antarctic penguin population
2016-02-15 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deutsche Welle: About 150,000 penguins have perished in Antarctica after a huge iceberg cut off their access to the sea, forcing them to trek dozens of kilometers to find food. Scientists warn the birds could be gone within 20 years. Desolate Cape Denison in eastern Antarctica used to be home to a colony of tens of thousands of Adelie penguins. They lived just a short waddle from the sea - their food supply - and thrived. Unrelenting winds blowing floating ice offshore meant that there was always a section of...
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Warmer oceans speed up Antarctic ice loss
2016-02-15 10:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: European researchers have once again warned that the thinning of the Antarctic ice shelf means that the flow of glaciers on the frozen continent could accelerate, with a consequent rise in sea levels. They examine, in two separate studies, the increasingly precarious state of some of the ice shelf. When the shelf, consisting of ice floating on the ocean, melts, it makes no difference to sea levels. But the floating ice does have an effect on the land. It serves as a brake on the pace of glaciers...
Geophysicist questions stability of Antarctic ice sheet
2016-01-31 00:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A professor in Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences is joining the growing debate over the fate of the world's largest ice sheet, whose sudden melting is sending shockwaves throughout the geophysics community. Robert Moucha, assistant professor of Earth sciences, is the co-author of a recent paper in Geology (Geological Society of America, 2015), examining the impact of the deep Earth on ice-sheet stability. Particular emphasis is on the retreat, or melting, of the East Antarctic Ice...
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UK Royal Navys HMS Protector completes East Antarctic patrol
2016-01-20 01:00:00| Naval Technology
The Royal Navy's ice patrol ship, the HMS Protector, has successfully completed a five-week mission to the East Antarctic and Ross Sea, becoming the UK's first vessel to have visited the region in 80 years.
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The Antarctic Ice Sheet may be hiding the world's largest canyon system
2016-01-14 17:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Nature Network: Geologists studying satellite imagery of the remote Princess Elizabeth Land in East Antarctica, one of the largest unsurveyed land surfaces on Earth, have discovered evidence of a massive subglacial canyon system buried beneath the ice. Tipped off by the physical hints, the team of researchers utilized radio-echo sounding to pull back the white curtain and peer through the ice. What they found is an absolute monstrosity of geology, a canyon system believed to be more than 685 miles long and as...
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