PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 23 (UPI) -- NASA says new imaging of the martian north-polar ice layers is consistent with theoretical models of Martian climate swings during the past few million years.
Al Gore has told the U.N. climate conference that new data suggests that the Arctic polar ice cap may disappear in the summertime as soon as five to seven years from now.
... a novel statistical approach that reveals the planet's polar ice sheets are vulnerable to large-scale ... , the period can help scientists understand the stability of polar ice sheets and the future rate of sea ...
WASHINGTON, March 19 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency plans Monday in Greenland to start a second year of polar ice cap surveys to examine global climate change.
The melting polar ice changes the shape of the Earth and how fast it spins. Will the days get shorter or longer?
What had been a blurry picture about polar ice — especially how it impacts sea levels — just got a whole lot clearer as experts ...
... fighting for survival in the face of a rapid decline of polar ice have made the Arctic a poster child ... fluctuate, organisms do what they can to adapt. Polar bears, for example, develop thick coats ...
... -2 is specifically aimed at advancing our understanding of polar ice cover and its response to climate change ... picture of the influence that climate change is having on the Earth's polar ice masses. There are many challenges associated with building ...
... as much as 1.5 million years. The tiny bubbles of ancient air trapped in polar ice cores have been used to provide records of trace ... ,000 years long, which eventually lead to ice ages. Those have been regularly interrupted by “interglacial” periods ...
The number of walruses worldwide is on a downward slide as the polar ice sheet on which the mammal depends for every stage of its life thins.
... mud, and the roots of some plants. The organism is one of only about 10 scientifically described new species originating from polar ice and glaciers. To study the bacterium in the laboratory ...
ST. LOUIS, June 10 (UPI) -- A U.S.-led team of seismologists has discovered seismic signals from an Antarctic ice river that they say make California earthquakes sound trivial.
Environmental monitoring satellites track warming by watching polar ice. Credit: ESA
... included in current forecasting models, such as how the major polar ice caps will move in the event of melting ... that the study of microstructures challenges standard models for polar ice, especially the classical 3-layer ...
... have discovered how volatile metals from volcanoes end up in polar ice cores. Researchers had suspected that mercury boils out of hot magma, the big surprise was just ...
