Tag Archives: ICE

[ad_1] A group of chinstrap penguins huddle atop an iceberg floating near Antarctica’s Lemaire Channel. UESLEI MARCELINO / REUTERS According to an annual report released on Friday, Chinese scientists found that Antarctica’s ice shelves, particularly those on its northernmost peninsula, melted at an accelerating rate from 1999 to 2019. Climate …

[ad_1] A group of chinstrap penguins huddle atop an iceberg floating near Antarctica’s Lemaire Channel. UESLEI MARCELINO / REUTERS According to an annual report released on Friday, Chinese scientists found that Antarctica’s ice shelves, particularly those on its northernmost peninsula, melted at an accelerating rate from 1999 to 2019. Climate …

[ad_1] Greenland is the largest island in the world and on it lies the largest mass of ice in the Northern Hemisphere. If all that ice melted, the sea would rise over 7 meters. But it won’t happen, will it? Well, not very soon, but figuring out how much of …

[ad_1] At least one prebiotic molecule, an ingredient for building life, can form in the harsh environment of interstellar space, away from stars and planets, new research shows. It was thought that the simplest amino acid glycine, without which life could not exist, required the irradiation of stars to form. …

[ad_1] An international team of laboratory astrophysicists and astrochemical modellers has shown that glycine, the simplest amino acid and an important building block of life, can form under the harsh conditions that govern chemistry in space. The results were published this week in Nature Astronomy and show that glycine and …

[ad_1] According to new research, a giant underground river fueled by melting ice could flow in a state of perennial darkness far below Greenland’s surface. Dubbed the ‘dark river’, this hypothetical waterway – if it really exists, that is – can extend for 1,000 kilometers (620 miles), flowing from the …

[ad_1] Even if humanity stops emitting greenhouse gases tomorrow, the Earth will warm up for centuries to come and oceans will rise by meters, according to a controversial modeling study released Thursday. Natural factors of global warming – more heat-trapping clouds, permafrost melting and sea ice shrinkage – already set …

[ad_1] It appeared in 1973, seemingly out of nowhere: a hole in sea ice off the coast of Antarctica. But this was no ordinary hole. It was so big it could swallow California. The mysterious opening remained in effect for the next three winters. Then it seemed to largely disappear …

[ad_1] The remains of a gigantic ancient lake have been discovered beneath Greenland, buried deep beneath the ice sheet in the northwest of the country and are estimated to be hundreds of thousands of years, if not millions, scientists say. The enormous “ fossil lake bed ” is a phenomenon …

[ad_1] The rapid melting is reshaping the coast of Greenland, potentially altering the human and animal ecosystems along the country’s coast. New research published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface on October 27 he discovers that the retreat of Greenland’s ice has changed the way glaciers flow and where …