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Ice, Ice Scraping Antarctic icebergs scraping seafloor bare more often due to climate change		18 Jul 2008	News
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 ...
Topics: Antarctica, climate, climate change impacts, news, scientific research, wildlife (all these topics)

Oh No You DDT Melting Antarctic glaciers may be releasing DDT, says study		27 May 2008	News
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 ...
Topics: Antarctica, climate, climate change impacts, news, scientific research, toxics (all these topics)

Meanwhile ... Not looking good for ice shelf in the Antarctic	Sir Oolius	25 Mar 2008	Gristmill
... over there: While the area of collapse involves 160 square miles at present, a large part of the 5,000-square-mile Wilkins Ice Shelf is now supported only by a narrow strip of ice between two islands, said CU-Boulder's Ted Scambos, lead scientist at NSIDC. 'If there is a little bit more retreat, this last 'ice buttress' could collapse and we'd likely lose about half the total ice shelf area in the next few years.' Shouldn't that be 'Region of Beachfront Reclamation' ...
Topics: Antarctica, climate, climate change impacts (all these topics)

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do Giant Antarctic ice chunk collapses		25 Mar 2008	News
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 ...
Topics: Antarctica, climate, climate change impacts, news (all these topics)

Journey to the bottom of the Earth CBS airs final segment of Antarctica series tonight	Katy Balatero	13 Feb 2008	Gristmill
CBS has been televising a series this week on climate change impacts in Antarctica. Monday's broadcast spotlighted how climate change has affected Adelie penguin populations. The segment last night focused on scientific research in Antarctica and what it might mean for our understanding of global warming (see video below). You can tune in tonight at 6:30 pm EST to find out about waste and recycling issues in our least-inhabited continent.
Topics: Antarctica, climate, climate change impacts, climate science, recycling, scientific research, TV, waste, wildlife (all these topics)

The Antarctic ice sheet hits the fan Antarctic shrinking much faster than expected	Joseph Romm	15 Jan 2008	Gristmill
The global warming deniers (and the rest of us) just can't catch a break: Vast areas of the Antarctic ice sheet -- which has 10 times as much ice as Greenland -- is losing mass much faster than anyone expected. And the rate of ice loss has quickened in the last decade. In fact, 2007's ice loss was 75 percent higher than 2006's. Jeez, it's almost like ... I don't know ... the whole friggin' planet is melting, and we are to blame! If only we had a group of scientists ...
Topics: Antarctica, climate, climate change impacts, climate science (all these topics)

Antarctic'ed Off Antarctica ice melt more widespread and faster than thought, says study		14 Jan 2008	News
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 ...
Topics: Antarctica, climate, climate change impacts, news, scientific research (all these topics)

Antarctic ice streams are no bubbling brook Bad news from down south	Joseph Romm	27 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Scientific and observational data from Antarctica are driving home the message that we have entered a period of consequences. Most recently, scientists have discovered ice streams hiding bigger reservoirs of water in West Antarctica. The evidence has 'major implications for glacial melt rates and associated sea-level rises' and the rate of warming. Equally frightening is that the ice streams feed into the Ross Ice Shelf, a major southern ice shelf whose melting wo ...
Topics: Antarctica, climate, climate change impacts (all these topics)

Aren't You Glad You Use Dial? World sweats through warmest winter on record		19 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
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 ...
Topics: Antarctica, Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, news (all these topics)

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