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Icebergs threaten Antarctic research gear
2016-04-11 01:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yahoo: They're far from the fastest things on water, but two massive icebergs are threatening to plough through Antarctic research gear and destroy a year worth of data, scientists say. Researchers from NIWA say the two huge hunks of ice, which could be up to 15 kilometres across and more than 100 metres thick, have broken off the Antarctic coastline over the weekend and may now be on a crash course with mooring containing precious equipment. BREAKING: TWO #Massive #icebergs #break of #Antarctica...
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Greenland and Antarctic melting isnt just raising seas its changing the Earths rotation
2016-04-09 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Africa is front and center in this image of Earth taken in July 2015 by a NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite. Sophisticated new gravity research suggests that changes in Earths climate may actually be having a stunning geophysical effect: slightly moving the location of the planets spin axis, or axis of daily rotation. In other words, even as the Earth spins on its axis in a west to east direction, completing a full rotation every 24 hours, that axis itself...
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Public asked to aid Antarctic research
2016-04-07 14:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: British scientists who have set up a network of penguin-monitoring cameras in Antarctica are asking the public to help them carry out their research. The Oxford University team is launching a new version of their ambitious project, PenguinWatch, on Thursday. This is now the largest Antarctic citizen science venture in the world. In "PenguinWatch 2.0", people will be able to see the results of their online efforts to monitor and conserve Antarctica's penguins colonies. Lead researcher...
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Climate forecasts underestimate sea-rise impact of Antarctic thaw
2016-03-31 15:08:02| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Sea levels could rise 50 cm (20 inches) more this century than had been expected, according to a report published on Wednesday which found that Antarctic ice will melt faster than previously thought. Climate scientists at two U.S. universities said the most recent U.N. report on the effects of global warming had underestimated the rate at which the ice covering the continent would melt. That report, issued in 2013, said the worst case of man-made climate change would mean a sea-level rise of...
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Antarctic model raises prospect of unstoppable ice collapse
2016-03-31 13:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature: Recent studies suggest that the Antarctic ice sheet is much less stable than scientists once thought. Choices that the world makes this century could determine the fate of the massive Antarctic ice sheet. A study published online this week in Nature1 finds that continued growth in greenhouse-gas emissions over the next several decades could trigger an unstoppable collapse of Antarcticas ice -- raising sea levels by more than a metre by 2100 and more than 15 metres by 2500. That is literally...
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