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Major Antarctic Ice Shelf May Disappear by 2020
2015-05-19 17:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: With climate change heating things up, and the Earth's poles rapidly melting, it should come as no surprise that a major Antarctic ice shelf may completely disappear by 2020, according to a new NASA study. The last remaining section of the Larsen B Ice Shelf, which partially collapsed in 2002, is quickly weakening, flowing faster, and becoming more and more fragmented as well as developing large cracks. This, plus the fact that two of its tributary glaciers are also flowing faster and thinning...
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NASA: Massive Antarctic Ice Shelf Disappear Completely Few Years
2015-05-18 14:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: An Antarctic ice shelf roughly half the size of Rhode Island will disintegrate completely within the next few years, according to a NASA study released Thursday. In 2002, two-thirds of the Larsen B Ice Shelf - which had been intact for more than 10,000 years - broke up in less than six weeks. The remaining portion of the ice shelf covers about 625 square miles along the Antarctic Peninsula, extending toward the southern tip of South America. Using data collected from airborne surveys and radar,...
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March of the Penguins director to close Cannes with climate change film Ice and the Sky
2015-05-17 20:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: March Of The Penguins enraptured audiences worldwide and won its French director an Oscar. Now, Luc Jacquet is back with another film set in Antarctica one that promises to have a very different impact on cinema-goers, even if it does still feature some penguins. The director has spoken of his trip to the continent to film the documentary Ice and the Sky about Claude Lorius the man credited with discovering global warming and how shocked he was to see the effects of climate change at first...
Antarctic Ice Shelves found to be thinning from the top AND the bottom
2015-05-17 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: A decade-long scientific debate about whats causing the thinning of one of Antarcticas largest ice shelves is settled this week (Wednesday 13 May) with the publication of an international study in the journal The Cryosphere. The Larsen C Ice Shelf whose neighbours Larsen A and B, collapsed in 1995 and 2002 is thinning from both its surface and beneath. For years scientists have been unable to determine whether it is warming air temperatures or warmer ocean currents that were causing the...
NASA: 10,000-Year-Old Ice Shelf in Antarctica Soon Be Completely Gone
2015-05-16 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Slate: Earth's polar regions are in the midst of a stunning transformation. As global warming accelerates, evidence of change is perhaps most obvious in our planet's ice. More than a decade ago, scientists watched in awe as Antarctica's Larsen B Ice Shelf shattered almost completely in just six weeks. No one had ever seen such a large mass of ice vanish so quickly. Now, a new study from NASA, released this week, predicts that what remains of Larsen B will be totally gone in less than five years. Since...
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