Scientists looked back in time to reconstruct the past life of Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier”; It was given this nickname because its collapse could cause catastrophic sea level rise. They found that it began to retreat rapidly in the 1940s, according to a new study that gives an alarming glimpse of future melting. Thwaites Glacier in… Read More »
Scientists looked back in time to reconstruct the past life of Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier”; It was given this nickname because its collapse could cause catastrophic sea level rise. They found that it began to retreat rapidly in the 1940s, according to a new study that gives an alarming glimpse of future melting. Thwaites Glacier in… Read More »
Evidence from a 600-meter-long ice core reveals that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet suddenly and dramatically shrank about 8,000 years ago, according to new research; This gives an alarming insight into how quickly Antarctic ice may melt and how quickly sea levels may rise. Over a period of just 200 years at the end of… Read More »
Evidence from a 600-meter-long ice core reveals that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet suddenly and dramatically shrank about 8,000 years ago, according to new research; This gives an alarming insight into how quickly Antarctic ice may melt and how quickly sea levels may rise. Over a period of just 200 years at the end of… Read More »
Scientists investigating how Antarctica’s ice sheets retreated in the deep past have turned to an innovative approach: studying the genes of octopuses that live in cold waters. A new analysis published Thursday in the journal Science finds that geographically isolated populations of eight-armed marine creatures mated freely about 125,000 years ago; This signals an ice-free… Read More »
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