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Stable Antarctic Ice Is Suddenly Melting Fast

Stable Antarctic Ice Is Suddenly Melting Fast

| May 21, 2015 Comment

Stable Antarctic Ice Is Suddenly Melting Fast – Sea levels worldwide will rise higher than anticipated, thanks to a new once-stable region of Antarctica that is suddenly melting, and at a fast rate. Analysis of satellite data shows that although the massive ice sheet on the Southern Antarctic Peninsula, made up of multiple glaciers, was […]

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Scientists Find Large Antarctic Ice Shelves Closer to Collapse Than They Thought

Scientists Find Large Antarctic Ice Shelves Closer to Collapse Than They Thought

| May 19, 2015 Comment

Scientists find large Antarctic ice shelves closer to collapse than they thought – In 2002, two-thirds of the massive Larsen B ice shelf in Antarctica disintegrated into the ocean, spawning hundreds to perhaps thousands of icebergs, in a span of just six weeks. That event stunned scientists, since it was unprecedented in at least 12,000 […]

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Hottest year ever is 2014

Hottest year ever is 2014

| November 27, 2014 Comment

Hottest year ever is 2014 – It’s official, this year has been the warmest on record since 1880. The Earth’s temperature registered 1.22 degrees Celsius more than the average of the 20th century. That is according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Glaciers in Norway have acted like a sort of thermometer: […]

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