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Look Out Below: Antarctic Melting From Underneath
2013-06-17 15:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Ice experts have long known that Antarctica is losing ice at the margins of its vast ice sheets, where the frozen continent meets the sea -- presumably, they thought, from icebergs breaking off and floating away. According to a report published in Science, however, more than half the ice loss is coming from warming ocean waters, which are melting the ice from underneath. "This has profound implications for our understanding of interactions between Antarctica and climate change,' said lead author...
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Case Study - British Antarctic Survey
2013-06-17 12:04:00| Airport Technology
British Antarctic Survey operates in some of the harshest environmental conditions on the planet. The airstrip at Rothera Research Station is a lifeline to the team onsite, for flying science teams to deep-field study sites and for delivering essenti
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Antarctic Ice Shelves Melt Mostly From Below
2013-06-13 13:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: When iceberg chunks break off of floating ice shelves, it can serve as dramatic proof of melting -- and this traditionally has been considered the main way that these expanses of Antarctic ice become smaller. But new research reveals a disconcerting finding that is invisible to the naked eye: These ice shelves primarily melt from below. Knowing what is driving ice-shelf melt is important because when ice shelves lose mass, they speed up the flow of land-bound glaciers that feed them, moving ice...
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Antarctic polar icecap is 33.6 million years old, researchers show
2013-05-29 01:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Seasonal primary productivity of plankton communities appeared with the first ice. This phenomenon, still active today, influences global food webs. These findings, reported in the journal Science, are based on fossil records in sediment cores at different depths. The Antarctic continental ice cap came into existence during the Oligocene epoch, some 33.6 million years ago, according to data from an international expedition led by the Andalusian Institute of Earth Sciences (IACT) -- a Spanish National...
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British Antarctic Survey Selects Maxtena's Antenna for Science Spears
2013-05-02 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Maxtena has been selected as the antenna provider to British Antarctic Survey (BAS), one of the world's leading environmental research centers with responsibility for the UK's national scientific activities in Antarctica.<br /> <br /> BAS scientists have developed an airdropped spear to put vital reporting instruments in parts of Antarctica only accessible by plane. Twenty-five of the spears have been strategically dropped in Pine Island Glacier (PIG), currently one of the world's largest net ...This story is related to the following:Transmitting Antennas | Global Positioning System (GPS) Antennas | Antennas |
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