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Arctic ice grows darker and less reflective
2013-08-05 19:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: Arctic ice is losing its reflective sheen. It's common knowledge that each summer, more and more of the ice melts leaving the dark waters of the ocean uncovered a process that accelerates global warming by reducing the amount of solar radiation reflected back into space. Now it turns out that the surviving sea ice is also becoming darker and less reflective. For the first time, a detailed analysis of 30 years of satellite data for the Arctic Ocean has quantified how much the albedo, or reflectivity,...
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Less Ice Means a Much Hotter Earth By 2100
2013-08-05 15:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The Arctic is intricately linked to Earth`s climate. As Arctic sea ice declines, the effects are being felt far beyond the Arctic region. Now a new study shows how losing sea ice means the top of the planet is absorbing more heat than it did just three decades ago--and it makes for a sobering read. Scientists have noticed big changes in the Arctic since satellites started observing earth from space, thirty years ago. The area covered by sea ice is getting smaller and the ice is getting thinner,...
Young harp seals in the North Atlantic at risk from melting sea ice
2013-08-05 13:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Shrinking sea ice is bad news for the baby harp seal, according to researchers from Duke University in the US. Pagophilus groenlandicus relies on stable winter sea ice to provide a safe platform to give birth and nurse the young until the pups can swim, hunt and fend off predators. But the Duke team report in PLoS One, the Public Library of Science journal, that in four harp seal breeding regions of the North Atlantic, the winter ice had declined by 6% a decade since 1979. The researchers based...
Loss of sea ice affects all Arctic life: Study
2013-08-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canadian Press: A review of the latest research on the Arctic says the accelerating loss of sea ice is kicking the legs out from under the entire northern dinner table with consequences for large animals and tiny plants alike. "We're losing all the things that life depends on," said Ian Stirling, an adjunct professor at the University of Alberta and one of the co-authors of a study published Thursday in the prestigious journal Science. The paper reviews dozens of recent studies on the Arctic in an attempt...
Move Over, Dippin' Dots: 5 Futuristic Ice Creams
2013-08-02 03:35:33| Biotech - Topix.net
When Dippin' Dots emerged in 1987 with the slogan "Ice Cream of the Future," its liquid nitrogen-blasted pellets seemed about as cutting edge as ice cream could get.
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