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Antarctic ice loss is accelerating
2015-03-30 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: New research published this week in the journal Science Express describes how the ice shelves around Antarctica are thinning and therefore allowing more of the ice sheet behind them to flow into the sea. Using nearly two decades of satellite data, the team of international researchers observed an acceleration of ice loss from the continents ice shelves, with an increase in loss of 70% in West Antarctica over the last decade. In the Amundsen and Bellingshausen regions, some ice shelves have...
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Antarctica's ice shelves are thinning fast
2015-03-30 16:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Antarctica's floating ice collar is quickly disappearing in the west, a new study reports. In the Bellingshausen and Amundsen seas two of West Antarctica's melting hotspots some ice shelves lost 18 percent of their thickness in the past decade, researchers said. The most dramatic shrinkage occurred in the Bellingshausen Sea's Venable Ice Shelf, which lost ice at an average rate of 118 feet (36 meters) per decade in the past 18 years. At that rate, the entire ice shelf could disappear within...
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Antarctica Records Hottest Day Ever, Rapid Acceleration of Ice Melt
2015-03-30 16:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The warmest temperature ever recorded in Antarctica may have occurred last Tuesday with a thermometer reading 63.5 degrees Fahrenheit at Argentinas Esperanza Base on the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, according to Weather Underground. The previous record was set the day before at 63.3 degrees at Argentinas Marambio Base on a small islet just off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. Prior to this weeks record heat wave for the icy continent, the hottest known temperature in Antarctica...
Melting ice slows down ocean circulation
2015-03-29 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Living on Earth: The Atlantic Conveyor Belt is a system of ocean currents that bring warm temperatures and important nutrients to the waters off of East Coast America and Western Europe. But as global warming melts ice in Greenland, the influx of fresh water seems to be slowing the northward drift down and could shut the system down altogether. Climate scientist Michael Mann tells host Steve Curwood that could spell trouble for the ocean and the economy. Transcript CURWOOD: It's Living on Earth. I'm Steve Curwood....
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Antarctica ice shelves see substantial loss last two decades, finds study
2015-03-27 14:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: A new study has found that over the last two decades there has been substantial changes in Antarcticas floating ice shelves, with some areas experiencing as much as an 18% decreases. The researchers argue that the findings show how the ice sheet is responding to climate change. The study, which has been published in the journal Science, was led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego. The researchers analysed data from nearly two decades of satellite...
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