Researchers have found evidence of rainforests near the South Pole 90 million years ago, suggesting the climate was exceptionally warm at the time. …read more Source:: Science
Tag: Antarctica
Almost alien: Antarctic subglacial lakes are cold, dark and full of secrets
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•More than half of the planet’s fresh water is in Antarctica. While most of it is frozen in the ice sheets, underneath the ice pools and streams of water flow …read more Source:: Science
Earth was stressed before dinosaur extinction
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•By measuring the chemistry of fossilized seashells collected in Antarctica, researchers discovered that Earth was already experiencing carbon cycle instability before the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. …read more Source:: Science
Large Antarctic Ice Shelf, home to a UK research station, is about to break apart
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•Glaciology experts have issued evidence that a large section of the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica, which is home to the British Antarctic Survey’s Halley Research Station, is about break …read more Source:: Science
Antarctica losing six times more ice mass annually now than 40 years ago
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•Antarctica experienced a sixfold increase in yearly ice mass loss between 1979 and 2017, according to a new study. Glaciologists additionally found that the accelerated melting caused global sea levels …read more Source:: Science
Leading Antarctic experts offer two possible views of continent’s future
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•The next 10 years will be critical for the future of Antarctica, and choices made will have long-lasting consequences, says an international group of Antarctic research scientists. It lays out …read more Source:: Science
Decades of satellite monitoring reveal Antarctic ice loss
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•Scientists have reviewed decades of satellite measurements to reveal how and why Antarctica’s glaciers, ice shelves and sea ice are changing. Their report explains how ice shelf thinning and collapse …read more Source:: Science
Antarctica ramps up sea level rise
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•Ice losses from Antarctica have increased global sea levels by 7.6 mm since 1992, with two fifths of this rise (3.0 mm) coming in the last five years alone. The …read more Source:: Science
Secret life of an enigmatic Antarctic apex predator
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•Scientists have, for the first time, tracked the lives of leopard seals as they migrate around Antarctica. The team followed these formidable predators as they move from the frozen Antarctic …read more Source:: Science
More ‘losers’ than ‘winners’ predicted for Southern Ocean seafloor animals
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•A new study of the marine invertebrates living in the seas around Antarctica reveals there will be more ‘losers’ than ‘winners’ over the next century as the Antarctic seafloor warms. …read more Source:: Science