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Thinning Ice Around Antarctica Is Weakening Its Ice Sheet

Thinning Ice Around Antarctica Is Weakening Its Ice Sheet

For the first time, scientists have proven that the thinning ice shelves floating around Antarctica are driving ice loss from the interior of the continent as well, according to new research published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. The weakening of the ice shelf means that more ice is flowing from the interior of the […]

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    Antarctica’s Ice Is Melting 5 Times Faster Than in the 90s

    Antarctica’s Ice Is Melting 5 Times Faster Than in the 90s

    Yet another study has shown that glaciers in Antarctica are melting at accelerating rates. Almost 25 percent of the West Antarctic ice shelf is now thinning, and the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers are losing ice at five times the rate they were in the early 1990s, CNN reported. “In parts of Antarctica, the ice […]

    Winter Weather Doesn’t Disprove Global Warming

    Winter Weather Doesn’t Disprove Global Warming

    Weather and climate aren’t the same. It’s one thing for people who spend little or no time learning about global warming to confuse the two, but when those we elect to represent us don’t know the difference, we’re in trouble. For a U.S. president to tweet about what he referred to as “Global Waming” because […]

    City-Sized 1,000-Foot Deep Cavity Found in Glacier, Warns NASA, Signaling ‘Rapid Decay’ of Antarctic Ice

    City-Sized 1,000-Foot Deep Cavity Found in Glacier, Warns NASA, Signaling ‘Rapid Decay’ of Antarctic Ice

    By Julia Conley NASA scientists were startled when a recent exploratory mission revealed a huge and rapidly-growing cavity on the underside of one of Antarctica’s glaciers—signaling that the ice mass has been melting much faster than experts realized. The cavity is two-thirds the size of Manhattan—large enough to have contained about 14 billion tons of […]

    ‘INSANE!’: Even Weather Experts Can’t Believe How Cold It Is

    ‘INSANE!’: Even Weather Experts Can’t Believe How Cold It Is

    During bouts of extreme weather, we always turn to our beloved meteorologists to analyze, forecast and report these events. So you know it’s really cold outside when trusted weather experts, like Minneapolis’s Chris Shaffer of WCCO-TV, dedicate The Weeknd’s “Can’t Feel My Face” to Mother Nature amid temperatures that feel like the negative 30s, 40s […]

    Scientists Melt a Mile-Deep Hole in Antarctica to Study Climate Change

    Scientists Melt a Mile-Deep Hole in Antarctica to Study Climate Change

    A group of scientists and engineers led by the British Antarctic Survey dug a 1.3-mile deep hole through the ice sheet in West Antarctica—the deepest hole ever made in the region using hot water, according to BBC News. By reaching the base of the Rutford Ice Stream, the researchers hope to understand how the area […]