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Antarctica is basically liquefying
2015-03-27 20:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Antarctica`s icy edges are melting 70 percent faster in some places than they were a decade ago, according to a new study in the journal Science. These massive ice shelves serve as a buffer between the continents ice-sheet system and the ocean. As they disintegrate, more and more ice will slip into the sea, raising sea levels by potentially huge amounts. This study is just the latest bit of horrible news from the bottom of the world. Last year, we found out that the West Antarctic ice sheet...
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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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Monstrous melt: Distant Antarctica glaciers have scientists worried
2015-03-22 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The great ice sheet of West Antarctica has begun sliding into what scientists believe is an irreversible collapse. It will take a century, but once glaciers that took tens of thousands of years to form are gone, the absence will result in a sea level rise in the Northern Hemisphere of at least 10 feet. If this were the only scenario to worry about, it would be more than enough to qualify as a catastrophe. Unfortunately, West Antarctica isn't the only ice formation that may disappear from the bottom...
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Melting of Antarctica was already really bad. It just got worse
2015-03-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: A hundred years from now, humans may remember 2014 as the year that we first learned that we may have irreversibly destabilized the great ice sheet of West Antarctica, and thus set in motion more than 10 feet of sea level rise. Meanwhile, 2015 could be the year of the double whammy -- when we learned the same about one gigantic glacier of East Antarctica, which could set in motion roughly the same amount all over again. Northern Hemisphere residents and Americans in particular should take note...
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International tensions as talks to protect Antarctica begin
2014-10-20 14:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Twenty-five member nations of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) are set to discuss the creation of two large marine protected areas to protect the Antarctic environment from fishing and other commercial activities, but the move is being opposed by Russia and China. The CCAMLR will decide on proposals to create marine protected areas (MPAs) in East Antarctica and the Ross Sea, initiatives to reduce illegal fishing in the Southern Ocean and setting...
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