Antarctic Glacier-Melt Increasing Dramatically
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As early as the 1970s, several theorists and climate modelers predicted that global warming would cause ice shelves in the oceans around Antarctica to melt and release glaciers.
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A scientific scramble is under way to clarify whether the erosion of the worldâs most vulnerable ice sheets can continue to accelerate.
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A number of massive glaciers in the West Antarctic are sliding into the ocean at an accelerating rate and raising sea levels, according to new data released Thursday.
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Heat from a volcano could still be melting ice and contributing to the thinning and speeding up of the Pine Island Glacier, according to a report by the British Antarctic Survey.
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An ice sheet in Antarctica that is the world's largest &#151; with enough water to raise global sea levels by 200 feet &#151; is relatively stable and poses no immediate threat, according to new research.
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More than 60 nations started the biggest scientific investigation of the Arctic and Antarctic on Thursday amid new evidence that global warming is thawing polar ice and raising sea levels.
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A four-year-long study of the Arctic climate confirms what many in Canada&#39;s North have been saying for years -- the Arctic is melting, and faster all the time.
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Previously undiscovered lakes under Antarctica may help improve our understanding of the interaction between global warming and the melting icepack. Plus: New climate accord sought. By the Associated Press.
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A group of Japanese researchers has found that carbon dioxide levels over the Antarctica rose by over 2.6 percent from six years ago &#151; the first such detection of an increase in a "greenhouse" gas above the southern continent, group members said Tuesday.
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The Larsen B ice shelf probably blocked the glaciers&#39; progress before its collapse in 2002, but now they are able to deposit their loads more freely.
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An expert frets about the accelerating retreat of glaciers from mountain peaks. With rates up to 60 meters per year, is it time to redefine the term "glacial"?
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A large network of waterways helps carry ice from the center of Antarctica to the ocean, scientists say, in a finding that may help clarify how global warming will affect the world's sea levels.
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Arctic sea ice in winter is melting far faster than before, two new NASA studies reported Wednesday, a new and alarming trend that researchers say threatens the ocean's delicate ecosystem.
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PARIS -- Children in Norway plead for snow. Polar researchers describe melting glaciers. Some experts say that within this century, the Arctic may no longer be ice-locked.
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WASHINGTON - Scientists say changes in the earth&#39;s climate from human influences are occurring particularly intensely in the Arctic region, evidenced by widespread melting of glaciers, thinning sea ice and rising permafrost temperatures.
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Arctic regions are warming twice as fast as the rest of the world - a trend marked by melting glaciers, shrinking sea ice and climatic changes that are turning solid ground into swamps, exposing coastal villages to erosion and threatening wildlife.
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The most comprehensive international assessment of Arctic climate change has concluded that Earth&#39;s upper latitudes are experiencing unprecedented increases in temperature