Last January, a study in Nature Climate Change showed the world's glaciers are the smallest they've been in human history, revealing radiocarbon material that hasn't been exposed for 40,000 years. Now, new research published in Nature quantifies how much the world's lost glaciers have contributed to rising sea levels. From …
The international body on whaling has renewed a five-year whaling quota for Eskimos for subsistence hunting in the us and Russia on May 29. The 76-nation International Whaling Commission voted by consensus to allow 280 bowhead whales to be hunted and caught until 2012. About 260 bowheads were reserved for …
Geoscientists have discovered huge rock formations off Greenland's southwestern coast, which they believe are remains of Earth's crust created when the sea floor split some 3.8 billion years ago. Though geo-chemical analysis has set the date of plate tectonics to 2.5 billion years ago, this is the first study to …
At the Oscars, apart from Martin Scorsese, among those most feted was Al Gore for his documentary feature titled An Inconvenient Truth that focussed on the dangers of global warming. Deservedly so and no one would grudge Gore if he uses the adulation to take another shot at the US …
A new radar instrument, called the Global Ice Sheet Mapping Orbiter (gismo) has enabled scientists to see through more than a mile of Greenland ice. The radar revealed an image of land that has been hidden for millions of years, said Ohio State University scientists, while revealing the radar's first …
oceans have cooled substantially during some of the warmest years in recent times, claims a study. During the years 2003 and 2005, which saw the highest global average surface temperatures in more than a century, the top 750 metres of the oceans lost around one-fifth of the heat accumulated over …
The meltdown of Greenland's ice sheet has accelerated since 2004 and most of the ice is being lost from its eastern part, shows satellite data. The ice sheet is melting at a rate of about 239 cubic kilometres per year, according to Jianli Chen of the University of Texas at …
Greenland's ice sheet could melt even before the stipulated 1,000 years, scientist told a conference in St Louis, usa. A study by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (nasa) and the University of Kansas found that the amount of ice melt making its way into the Atlantic Ocean from Greenland …
in stark contrast to warming trends observed in many other parts of the globe, Greenland is significantly cooler today than it was 40 years ago. Meteorological data collected by Danish researchers shows that average temperatures in the southern part of the island fell by 1.29
in the past 21 years, parts of the Northern Hemisphere have become much greener than they used to be. But this may not be good news as the greenery is a result of warmer temperatures, warn researchers. After studying satellite data, researchers from Boston University, usa , and the National …
Researchers at the University of Toronto, Canada have been able to predict rises in sea level attributed to global warming. Usually global warming models predict that the poles will warm up quickly, causing sea levels to rise as the ice melts but cannot predict where the rise in sea-level could …
global warming is responsible for melting more than 50 billion tonnes of water per year from the Greenland ice sheet, leading to a 59 centimetres rise in global sea level over the last century. This was stated in a National Aeronautical and Space Administration ( nasa ) study, which is …
According to researchers in the United States, the melting of the Greenland icecap may have caused a rise in the sea level during the last interglacial period around 125,000 years ago. At that time the sea level was about five metres higher than present levels. The origins of the water …
greenland's southern glaciers are rapidly thinning and their lower elevations may be particularly sensitive to potential climate changes, suggests a nasa study. The results of this study are important as they could represent the first indication of an increase in the speed of outlet glaciers, said Bill Krabill, principle investigator …
Greenland's ice may hold the key to the puzzle over the climate on the island. To unravel its mysteries, a three-km-deep hole has been drilled in the middle of Greenland. The goal of the project conducted by Danish researchers is to extract an ice core that will reveal how the …
MANAGED by the Danish Polar Centre - a monitoring and research body in the country -ZERO is located in the Zackenberg mountains of the national park (NP) in northeast Greenland. According to scientists at the station, the pristine conditions of the park will prove to be an excellent site to …
Ice sheets in western Greenland have become thicker by about two m in the last 10 years. Kenneth jezek and his colleagues from the Ohio State University, contend that each year adds about 15 cm. They feel that continued monitering of the ice sheet would provide insight into the phenomenon …
