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Popular Mechanics March 15, 2010 Trevor Williams |
Iceberg Forensics: Predicting the Planet's Future With Antarctic Ice Something new is happening with the ice streams and glaciers. They are getting thinner, and they are getting thinner because they are speeding up. |
Popular Mechanics February 19, 2010 Trevor Williams |
On Thick Ice: Live From An Antarctic Drilling Trip The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program is exploring the ocean floor around Antarctica to learn how the ice sheet reacted in warmer climates of the past and how they might respond to future warming. |
Geotimes October 2007 Moran & Backman |
The Arctic Ocean: So Much We Still Don't Know In 2004, the Arctic Coring Expedition team took three ships to the Arctic to drill a core near the Lomonosov Ridge. The team's results are teaching us more than we ever knew about the past 65 million years in the Arctic. |
Scientific American July 2008 Peter Brown |
NASA Satellites Watch Polar Ice Shelf Break into Crushed Ice Ice is melting at the poles much faster than climate models predict. |
Geotimes April 2007 Sally Adee |
Massive Antarctic Lakes Discovered The recent discovery of a massive "plumbing" system of linked reservoirs 1,000 meters beneath two major ice streams of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet may help fill out climate change models. |
Geotimes December 2004 Sara Pratt |
Antarctic Ice Connections The West Antarctic ice sheet contains 3.2 million cubic kilometers of ice. Were it to collapse due to global warming, it would raise global sea level by 5 meters, catastrophically inundating low-lying areas. |
Wired April 2000 Oliver Morton |
Ice Station Vostok The fast track to the moons of Jupiter - and the key to life on Earth - is a prehistoric lake nearly three miles beneath the Antarctic ice cap. |
Chemistry World March 2006 Katie Gibb |
Extreme Analysis High pressures, cold temperatures and inaccessible samples all make analytical work challenging for chemists. Science still has a lot to gain from studying and working in extreme environments. |
Fast Company December 2009 Anne C. Lee |
Freeze: The Antarctic Treaty Turns 50 On the first of December 1959, 12 nations signed a pact freezing territorial claims and banning military activity in Antarctica. Here's a tour. |
Geotimes January 2004 Naomi Lubick |
Longer polar ice record Geoscientists have beefed up a dataset documenting ice cover at Earth's poles, revealing a longer and slightly different picture than painted in the past by satellite observations. |
Geotimes March 2005 Naomi Lubick |
Paleo-Antarctic Puzzle Even though Antarctica was at the south pole around 35 million years ago, it was warm and relatively ice free. What exactly caused its shift to a deep freeze has long puzzled paleoclimatologists. |
IEEE Spectrum February 2013 Dave Levitan |
Laser Eyes Spy a Big Melt in the Arctic Airborne altimeters yield a disturbing picture of polar ice loss |
Geotimes August 2006 Megan Sever |
From Hot to Cold in the Arctic For the first time, scientists have recovered direct evidence of what life in the Arctic has been like for the past 56 million years. A new 400-meter-long sediment core is revealing that all in the Arctic has not always been as it seems. |
Geotimes June 2007 Megan Sever |
Antarctic Ice May be Grinding to a Halt Some of Antarctica's ice sheets may not be in as much danger as once thought. |
Popular Mechanics August 12, 2008 Laurie J. Schmidt |
Sensor-Laden Super Seals Dive Deep for New Global Warming Data A behemoth marine mammal whose diving skills would put an Olympic athlete to shame has become a surprise player in climate-change studies |
Wired September 22, 2008 Damon Tabor |
Scientists May Soon Outnumber Penguins at Earth's Poles Tens of thousands of scientists are zipping up their parkas for the latest International Polar Year initiative. |
Chemistry World January 23, 2013 |
Chemical climate proxies With the climate change debate as heated as ever, how do scientists reconstruct what the weather was like in the past? Jon Evans looks at the detective chemistry behind such environmental forensic work |
Geotimes May 2004 Sara Pratt |
Ice in the Greenhouse? The greenhouse world of the Late Cretaceous, long thought to be ice-free, may have been chillier than previously predicted. |
Geotimes May 2003 Greg Peterson |
A new trigger for Ice Age retreat About 14,600 years ago, a huge pulse of freshwater drained from continental ice sheets into the world's oceans. Now scientists have a new theory for where it came from. |
Chemistry World September 27, 2007 Simon Hadlington |
Scientists Uncover How Last Ice Age Ended Scientists have shown that the end of the last age 19,000 years ago began in the higher latitudes of the southern hemisphere before sweeping into the tropics. |
National Defense January 2010 Austin Wright |
Coast Guard Examines Future of Patrolling The Arctic The Coast Guard anticipates increased duties patrolling the Arctic region due to global warming. |
Geotimes November 2006 Margaret Putney |
Ice Reveals Polar Temperature Seesaw A new ice core from Antarctica directly correlates abrupt changes in Greenland's climate over the last 150,000 years with counterpart changes in Antarctica -- offering further indication that the two icy regions are connected by ocean currents in a sort of bipolar seesaw. |
National Defense February 2014 Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Pressure Builds for New Polar Icebreaker Of the Coast Guard's three icebreakers, only two are operational. More pressure is being put on the service to build a new heavy-duty vessel. |
Geotimes November 2004 Naomi Lubick |
Past warming for the future As the Bush administration prepares for a second term, only time will tell how its climate change policy will change in the next four years. In the meantime, discussions of the science behind climate changes abound in the journals and within the scientific community. |
Outside February 2004 Natasha Singer |
Break On Through The dream of a Northwest Passage linking the Atlantic to the riches of Asia has driven explorers and visionary adventurers for centuries. With climate change in the air, The author braves the frigid 900-mile journey to find out if the old, mythic dream is becoming an epic new reality. |
Scientific American March 2007 Charles Q. Choi |
Pole Positions More than 30 nations are initiating a global campaign to study the Arctic and Antarctic: an International Polar Year. |
Outside October 2002 Ian Frazier |
Terminal Ice Hot enough for you? Go to the bottom of the planet -- or the top -- and you can't miss the warning signs of a warm apocalypse. And at the heart of the mystery, like broken shards of a colder climate, float the icebergs, ghost-white messengers trying to tell us something we can't fathom. |
Geotimes November 2007 Nicole Branan |
Water Pours Through Pores in Sea Ice Scientists have come up with a new model that describes how water moves through the Arctic sea ice beneath melt ponds, helping them to make better climate predictions. |
Geotimes November 2006 Megan Sever |
Conveyor Belt Shutdown Not Imminent As the climate warms and ice on Greenland melts, freshwater pours into the North Atlantic, which new research suggests is unlikely to cause a shutdown in global ocean circulation. |
Geotimes March 2006 Naomi Lubick |
Ice Hunter: Q&A With Lonnie Thompson An interview with glaciologist and Byrd Polar Research Center scientist Lonnie Thompson about what it mean to hunt ice and about some his current work. |
Geotimes August 2004 Naomi Lubick |
Doubling the Ice Record A team of European researchers released their first round of results from the longest ice core ever to be recovered from a polar glacier. Measurements show some interesting temperature shifts that may cause climatologists to reevaluate their models. |
Geotimes March 2004 Kasey White |
A New Era of Ocean Drilling Sets Sail As the JOIDES Resolution arrived in Galveston, Texas, last September after completing its 110th and final Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) expedition, scientists celebrated the many advances made during the program. |
Geotimes December 2006 |
Top Climate News Stories of 2006 A new public face for climate change... Strong debate over storms... Thawing ice shifts water cycles... Methane climate menagerie... etc. |
National Defense February 2014 Valerie Insinna |
Military Challenged by Changing Arctic Landscape Patrolling the cold, icy waters of the Arctic has long been the responsibility of the Coast Guard, but as polar ice melts and ship traffic in the area increases, the Navy may take a larger role in securing the region and take advantage of new equipment. |
Chemistry World August 2008 |
Cold chemistry Intrepid researchers will brave the harshest conditions in the name of science. Ned Stafford talks to some of Antarctica's chemists |
Popular Mechanics March 12, 2007 Erin McCarthy |
Ice Queens 5 high-powered icebreaker ships that rock the arctic, antarctic and an ice sheet near you |
National Defense April 2012 Stew Magnuson |
Coast Guard Considering Permanent Bases in Arctic The Coast Guard will for the first time dispatch one of its new National Security Cutters to the Arctic as the ice breaks up on Alaska's North Slope this summer. |
Smithsonian July 2007 J. Madeleine Nash |
Chronicling the Ice Long before global warming became a cause celebre, Lonnie Thompson was extracting climate secrets from ancient glaciers. He finds the problem is even more profound than you might have thought. |
IEEE Spectrum September 2011 Paden et al. |
A Next-Generation Ice Radar Scientists can now probe polar ice sheets better than ever using synthetic-aperture radar |
Geotimes April 2005 |
Geomedia Arctic Climate Change in Photos... Book review: Frozen Earth: The Once and Future Story of Ice Ages by Doug Macdougall... Mapping Sinkhole Risk in Maryland... |
Popular Mechanics April 2007 Margo Pfeiff |
Voyage to the Top of the Earth (Almost) To reach the High Arctic, a Canadian coast guard icebreaker needs 17,000 horsepower, six diesel/electric engines and one slippery coat of paint. |
Geotimes March 2007 Kathryn Hansen |
Penguin Poop Adds to Climate Picture The thick layers of penguin guano and nest debris that have stacked up over millennia in Antarctica are adding to the climate picture, indicating that the Ross Ice Shelf began advancing earlier than previously thought. |
Geotimes December 2003 Megan Sever |
A year of global ice observations Scientists are now getting the most accurate view ever of changes in the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. The new maps, using NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite, are shedding light on the processes controlling these ice masses, which comprise 75 percent of Earth's freshwater. |
Geotimes January 2007 Margaret Putney |
Ice Reveals Polar Temperature Seesaw A new ice core from Antarctica directly correlates abrupt changes in Greenland's climate over the last 150,000 years with counterpart changes in Antarctica -- offering further indication that the two icy regions are connected by ocean currents in a sort of bipolar seesaw. |
National Defense August 2008 Matthew Rusling |
Coast Guard Unprepared for Climate Change in Arctic The Coast Guard's fleet of only two working icebreakers is not suited to deal with the rapidly changing shifts in a region of rising importance. |
Scientific American September 2008 Krista West |
Researchers hone seismic skills to peer inside glaciers Seismic data enable scientists to peer inside melting glaciers before they calve |
Geotimes July 2007 Kathryn Hansen |
Ancient Ocean Burps A sediment core extracted from the ocean floor off the coast of Baja, Calif., indicates two "burps" of carbon dioxide were once released from a deep, stagnant part of the ocean. |
Geotimes March 2006 Naomi Lubick |
Great Lakes of Antarctica Two "great lakes," each more than 1,000 square kilometers in area and buried deep under Antarctic ice, are giving scientists a new view of the continent and how such large lakes formed there. |
IEEE Spectrum December 2005 Erico Guizzo |
Into Deep Ice What does the future hold for Earth's ice? A group of British researchers seeks answers in the bowels of a glacier. |
Geotimes May 2005 Naomi Lubick |
Heat Imbalance Portends Problems Results from a new assessment show that Earth is absorbing more energy than it releases into space, with implications for climate change that researchers say point to future warming with consequences for melting ice sheets and sea-level rise. |