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Dust in the Wind Could Speed Greenlands Ice Melt
2014-06-08 19:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Despite it's name, Greenland is predominantly white, as snow and ice cover the majority of the country. New research indicates that Greenland's main color may be starting to fade and in fact darken, though, thanks to a widespread increase of dust across the ice sheets. That darkening could speed up surface melt, and with it, sea level rise around the globe. More than three-quarters of Greenland is covered by a massive ice sheet that's up to 2 miles thick in spots. It contained 684,000 cubic miles...
Johnny Appleseed to build world's largest ice luge
2014-06-05 19:54:43| Beverages - Topix.net
Johnny Appleseed Hard Cider, a brand of St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch, is working to break world records by building the world's largest ice luge in Boston on June 19. Johnny Appleseed Hard Cider's attempt at the world's largest ice luge will stand at least 25 feet high, surpassing the current record holder by 2 feet, span 4 feet wide and weigh ... (more)
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Tepco begin work Fukushima ice wall contain water leaks
2014-06-04 10:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The operator of the troubled Fukushima nuclear power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), has begun construction of a 1.5km (0.9-mile) ice wall to contain leaked radioactive water. Some 1,550 coolant-circulating pipes will be inserted 25 metres into the ground in an attempt to freeze the soil surrounding the contaminated water. A Tepco official said, We plan to end all the construction work in March 2015 before starting trial operations. The state-funded ice wall could be in operation...
Scientists Piece Together the Puzzle of Earth's Last Ice Age
2014-06-03 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: It seems blatantly obvious that an extremely cold climate spurred Earth's last Ice Age - officially known as the "Last Glacial Maximum" (LGM) - but scientists have long suspected that other factors were at play, and are just now piecing together the rest of the puzzle. "We have all these scattered pieces of information about changes in the ocean, atmosphere, and ice cover," Raffaele Ferrari, the Breene M. Kerr Professor of Physical Oceanography in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary...
Southern Ocean Research Provides New Insight Into Ice Age Climates
2014-06-03 13:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: A team of MIT scientists has turned to the Southern Ocean in search of an explanation for the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), a period in the Earth`s climate history during which the northern continents were covered by ice sheets, according to new research appearing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Plankton fossils contained in deep-sea sediments contain chemical traces that reveal rearranged ocean water masses, as well as extended sea ice coverage off Antarctica, during the...
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