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Scientists are Setting Up Camp in the Antarctic to Dig Up 1,500,000-Year Old Ancient Ice Sample

ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE 03.31.2019 22:59 PM

What secrets do the glaciers in Antarctica keep? Scientists are drilling for a thick sheet of ice to find out.

Global Warming Needs Proper Attention: The UN Negotiators Are Ready To Meet In Bonn To Address The Issue

05.08.2017 08:31 AM

Global Warming should be addressed properly, as the UN negotiators are ready to meet in Bonn to discuss the issue.

East Antarctic Ice Sheet Have To Contribute More To Rising Sea Level Than Previously Suggested, New Research Shows

05.08.2017 03:50 AM

The East Antarctic Ice Sheet actually had a less growth than what was previously studied. (Photo : Mario Tama/Getty Images) It is mostly known to scientists that for over a decade, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has been losing mass, resulting for the sea level to rise.

Global Warming Should Be Blamed For The Gradual Vanishing Of North American Ice Sheet

03.22.2017 05:03 AM

Global warming is the most seen reason by scientists that causes the gradual vanishing of the ice sheets in North America. In the next 300 years, the Barnes Ice Cap Island in Canada is expected to melt as shown in its current situation.

World's Largest Canyon May Be Hidden Beneath Antarctica's Ice Sheets

01.16.2016 10:30 AM

There might be a possibility that a mysterious landscape of layered bands of rocks are hidden beneath the ice sheets of the Antarctic. This could reportedly be the world's largest, extending up to over a thousand kilometre long and 1 km deep.

Satellite Data Reveal an Alarming Trend in Antarctica

05.23.2015 15:24 PM

Antarctica is a truly massive continent. At over 5 million square miles, the whole of the US could fit securely within its borders. It boasts the highest, driest, coldest, and windiest landscape of all seven continents. And the fact that it is losing ice is nothing new. It's the rate at which parts of the continent are melting that is raising new concerns.

Antarctica's Ice Shelves Melting Faster Than Originally Thought

03.27.2015 14:46 PM

Times are tough for the massive ice sheets of Antarctica these days with the latest report that the giant floating ice shelves that form a fringe along the continent's coast are beginning to melt and deteriorate much faster than scientists once believed.

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