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 Stories About: Antarctica AND climate AND climate change impacts AND news
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Ice, Ice Scraping
Antarctic icebergs scraping seafloor bare more often due to climate change |
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18 Jul 2008 |
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| Posted at 7:14 AM on 18 Jul 2008 The warming Antarctic is changing life on the seafloor as well as above as icebergs freed from surrounding sea ice earlier than in previous years can pummel bottom-dwelling creatures for much of the year, according to a new study. "Our results suggest that as the winter sea-ice season shortens, the thousands of icebergs that float around the coastline of the Antarct ... |
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| Topics: Antarctica, climate, climate change impacts, news, scientific research, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Oh No You DDT
Melting Antarctic glaciers may be releasing DDT, says study |
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27 May 2008 |
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| Posted at 10:44 AM on 27 May 2008 Adélie penguins in the Antarctic are as chock-full of pesticide DDT as they were in the 1970s, even though global DDT use has dropped 80 percent in the past three decades, says new research published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. Researchers speculate that climate change is at fault -- honestly, is there anything climate change is not mucking up? -- as concentratio ... |
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| Topics: Antarctica, climate, climate change impacts, news, scientific research, toxics (all these topics) |
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Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
Giant Antarctic ice chunk collapses |
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25 Mar 2008 |
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| Posted at 4:12 PM on 25 Mar 2008 A 160-square-mile chunk of ice -- that's seven times the size of Manhattan -- has collapsed off of the Wilkins ice shelf in Antarctica. The entire ice shelf, which is approximately the size of Connecticut, is "hanging by a thread," says climate scientist David Vaughan: "We'll know in the next few days or weeks what its fate will be." Scientists are not concerned that the ice breaka ... |
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Antarctic'ed Off
Antarctica ice melt more widespread and faster than thought, says study |
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14 Jan 2008 |
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| Posted at 3:48 PM on 14 Jan 2008 Antarctica holds about 90 percent of the Earth's ice, so it's a bit problematic that the continent seems to be melting faster than expected. Not only is large-scale ice loss more widespread than thought, but the rate of meltiness has accelerated over the last decade, says a study in the journal Nature Geoscience. The West Antarctic ice sheet lost about 132 billion tons of ic ... |
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| Topics: Antarctica, climate, climate change impacts, news, scientific research (all these topics) |
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Aren't You Glad You Use Dial?
World sweats through warmest winter on record |
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19 Mar 2007 |
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| Aren't You Glad You Use Dial? World sweats through warmest winter on record Congratulations, global citizens, for weathering the warmest winter in the Northern Hemisphere since record-keeping began in 1880. From December to February, combined land and ocean temperatures were 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit above average, says a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration study published Friday in Scie ... |
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| Topics: Antarctica, Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, news (all these topics) |
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