News articles tagged with 'ice'
Climate sensitivity to CO2 more limited than extreme projections
— 25 Nov 2011 09:00 | EnvironmentA new study suggests that the rate of global warming from doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide may be less than the most dire estimates of some previous studies - and, in fact, may…
Scientists find evidence for 'great lake' on Europa
— 16 Nov 2011 21:37 | AstronomyIn a significant finding in the search for life beyond Earth, scientists from The University of Texas at Austin and elsewhere have discovered what appears to be a body of liquid water…
NOAA scientists find killer whales in Antarctic waters prefer Weddell seals over other prey
— 31 Mar 2011 16:06 | BiologyNOAA's Fisheries Service scientists studying the cooperative hunting behaviour of killer whales in Antarctic waters observed the animals favouring one type of seal over all other available…
Northern peatlands a misunderstood player in climate change
— 15 Mar 2011 21:23 | EnvironmentUniversity of Alberta researchers have determined that the influence of northern peatlands on the prehistorical record of climate change has been over estimated, but the vast northern…
Observing Arctic ice-edge plankton blooms from space
— 5 Mar 2011 13:51 | EnvironmentOngoing climate-driven changes to the Arctic sea-ice could have a significant impact on the blooming of tiny planktonic plants (phytoplankton) with important implications for the Arctic…
Icy behaviour
— 5 Mar 2011 13:21 | EnvironmentWhen a Rhode-Island-sized ice chunk separates from Greenland, is the calving due to typical seasonal variations or a long-term warmer world? A project called the Scalable, Efficient,…
Some Antarctic ice is forming from bottom
— 4 Mar 2011 16:24 | EnvironmentScientists working in the remotest part of Antarctica have discovered that liquid water locked deep under the continent's coat of ice regularly thaws and refreezes to the bottom, creating…
Algal antifreeze makes inroads into ice
— 4 Mar 2011 14:05 | BiologySea-ice algae - the important first rung of the food web each spring in places like the Arctic Ocean - can engineer ice to its advantage, according to the first published findings about…
New interpretation of Antarctic ice cores
— 3 Mar 2011 14:38 | EnvironmentClimate researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association (AWI) expand a prevalent theory regarding the development of ice ages.…
Researchers map out ice sheets shrinking during Ice Age
— 12 Feb 2011 20:17 | Geology and palaeontologyA set of maps created by the University of Sheffield have illustrated, for the first time, how our last British ice sheet shrunk during the Ice Age…