Rocks beneath Antarctic Ice Sheet reveal surprising past
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is shrinking, with many glaciers across the region retreating and melting at an alarming rate. However, this was not always the case according to new […]
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Read more of: Rocks beneath Antarctic Ice Sheet reveal surprising past
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The Big Thaw
Read more of: The Big ThawThe Big Thaw studies snow and glacier changes in the Alps and Himalayas to improve forecasts of mountain water resources for global communities.
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Drilling of oldest ice on Earth completed
Read more of: Drilling of oldest ice on Earth completedThe first ice core drilling campaign of Beyond Epica-Oldest Ice has been successfully completed at the remote Little Dome C site in Antarctica – one of the most extreme places […]
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Mission to drill Antarctica’s oldest ice
Read more of: Mission to drill Antarctica’s oldest iceThe first campaign to drill Antarctica’s oldest ice starts this month (November). Beyond EPICA-Oldest Ice aims to drill an ice core to collect a record of past climate spanning 1.5 million years
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How Antarctic winds shaped CO₂
Read more of: How Antarctic winds shaped CO₂SIWHA investigates how westerly winds and sea ice have influenced CO2 uptake and release in the Southern Ocean.
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Antarctica wasn’t as cold during the last ice age as previously thought, new study shows
Read more of: Antarctica wasn’t as cold during the last ice age as previously thought, new study showsA study of two alternative methods for reconstructing ancient temperatures has given climate researchers a better understanding of how cold it was in Antarctica during the last Ice Age, around […]
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Scientists reconstruct past history of largest ice shelf on Antarctic Peninsula
Read more of: Scientists reconstruct past history of largest ice shelf on Antarctic PeninsulaFor the first time, geological records have been used to reconstruct the history of Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica. The ice shelf is the largest remaining remnant of a […]
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Southern Hemisphere westerly winds likely to intensify as climate warms
Read more of: Southern Hemisphere westerly winds likely to intensify as climate warmsPolar climate scientists have created the most high resolution past record of the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds. The results, published this week (9 December) in the journal Communications Earth and […]
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Past evidence supports complete loss of Arctic sea-ice by 2035
Read more of: Past evidence supports complete loss of Arctic sea-ice by 2035A new study, published this week in the journal Nature Climate Change, supports predictions that the Arctic could be free of sea ice by 2035. High temperatures in the Arctic […]
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Record warming at the South Pole
Read more of: Record warming at the South PoleThe South Pole has warmed at over three times the global rate since 1989, according to a paper published in Nature Climate Change today (29 June 2020). This warming period was […]
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Increase in winter warm spells in UK temperature records
Read more of: Increase in winter warm spells in UK temperature recordsWarm winter spells have increased in frequency and duration two- to three times over since 1878, according to a new study published this week (6 May 2020). In a new […]
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Traces of rainforests found in West Antarctica
Read more of: Traces of rainforests found in West AntarcticaAn international team of researchers has provided a new and unprecedented perspective on the climate history of Antarctica. From a sediment core collected from the seafloor in West Antarctica, they […]
