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Antarctic coastal waters 'rising faster'
Posted in Science on 1st Sep, 2014
by Alex Muller
Melting ice is fuelling sea-level rise around the coast of Antarctica, a new report in Nature Geoscience finds.
Antarctic hides extreme ecosystem
Posted in Science on 21st Aug, 2014
by Alex Muller
Scientists have pulled up thousands of different types of micro-organisms from Lake Whillans, a large body of water buried 800m under the ice sheet.
NASA Study Finds Arctic Ice Reduced by Half in Some Areas
Posted in Science on 19th Aug, 2014
by Alex Muller
Springtime snow on Arctic sea ice has thinned dramatically in the last 50 years, up to about half in some areas.
Recent Glacial Melt Mostly Caused By Man-Made Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Study Finds
Posted in Science on 16th Aug, 2014
by Alex Muller
Scientists looking at glacier melt since 1851 didn't see a human fingerprint until about the middle of the 20th century.
Frozen World Opens up the Door for Earth-like Planets
Posted in Science on 4th Jul, 2014
by Alex Muller
The discovery is expected to help astronomers better understand how Earth-like, or even potentially habitable, planets can form and how to find them.