The giant glacier threatening to raise sea levels
The Denman glacier in East Antarctica is one of the largest and fastest melting glaciers on the continent, and yet little is ...
Scientists Used a 1.7-Mile-Long ‘Time Machine’ to See Into Earth’s Climate Past
“We have a strong indication that the uppermost 2,480 meters contain a climate record that goes back to 1.2 million years in ...
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Scientists Baffled After Recovering 1.7-Mile-Long Ice Samples Dating Back 1.2 Million Years, Call It a ‘Time Machine’
Scientists Baffled After Recovering 1.7-Mile-Long Ice Samples Dating Back 1.2 Million Years, Call It a ‘Time Machine’ ...
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Antarctic ice sheet may be less vulnerable to collapse than expected
The West Antarctic ice sheet could cause metres of sea level rise if it collapses – but more than 120,000 years ago, it may ...
The U.S. built a covert Cold War base under a Greenland glacier. Its secrets are now being revealed.
What the visiting journalists weren’t told—nor were many of the soldiers living at the station, which could house up to ...
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Which Greenland Outlet Glaciers have Subglacial Channels?
A new study provides insights into where the channels that drain subglacial water from underneath the Greenland Ice Sheet are ...
Breakthrough Antarctic ice extraction 'an enormous victory,' U of Manitoba researcher says
An international team of scientists, including a researcher from the University of Manitoba, has drilled what’s believed to ...
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Scientists found ancient never-before-seen viruses locked in a glacier
Upon examining ice core samples taken from the glacier, researchers were able to identify over two dozen viruses that nobody has ever seen. If this sounds a bit like the start of a made-for ...
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ISU joins UN's glacier conservation efforts
Glaciers are vanishing at a disruptive rate, jeopardising the planet’s climate balance and the future of ice sports. In ...
The Antarctic mystery threatening sea levels — and the Australians trying to solve it
A team of Australian scientists are at the forefront of a groundbreaking mission to solve one of the planet's most pressing ...
Antarctic Ice Core Unlocks 1.2 Million Years of Unbroken Climate History, Setting New Record
Led by The Institute of Polar Sciences of the National Research Council of Italy (ISP-CNR), the scientists worked for more than 200 days, drilling into the ice and processing the ice core at a remote ...
Scientists drill a 1.2-million-year-old ice core in Antarctica
In this edition of the Science for All newsletter, Priyali Prakash writes on a 1.2-million-year-old ice core in Antarctica ...