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Mont Blanc Glacier Being Destroyed By Climate Change
The Mont Blanc Glacier is in danger of falling off the Planpincieux area of the Grandes Jorasses in Mont Blanc in the Alps. It is estimated that about 8.8 cubic feet is going to break off at any moment. Since ...
How to Talk to Climate Change Skeptics
10 myths about global warming, and what the science really says. THE REASONS FOR raising doubts about the human causes of global warming, explains Skeptical Sciences John Cook, are often political rather than scientific. Cook hears from climate change skeptics ...
New cli-fi novel pits an at-risk blue whale against Antarctic collapse
As a new generation of writers confronts global warming, a new book genre has emerged: “climate fiction”, or “cli-fi”. Russell: “In my secret heart, I hope that all these books that are now talking about climate change will help to ...
Wilkes Land Anomaly Continues to Baffle Scientists
Wilkes Land Anomaly Deep beneath the ice of East Antarctica’s Wilkes Land, an enigmatic mass anomaly has continued to puzzle scientists since its discovery. Located under a 300-mile-wide (480 km) impact crater-like structure, the Wilkes Land Anomaly has fueled numerous ...
Lake Vostok and the Search for Life
Deep beneath Antarctica’s thick ice sheet, hidden from sunlight for millions of years, lies Lake Vostok - one of the most mysterious and scientifically intriguing places on Earth. This sub-glacial lake, buried under more than two miles of ice, could ...
Christmas on Antarctica 100 Years Ago
Just before Christmas... November 1915, while camping on the thawing ice of the Weddell Sea, Shackleton and his men saw their ship, Endurance, going down into the waters of this sea. "She’s going, boys!" Shackleton shouted the evening of November ...
Why Did The Worlds 2nd Largest Emperor Penguin Colony Disappear?
In 2016, the world’s 2nd largest emperor penguin colony had been wiped out overnight. Thousands of emperor penguin chicks drowned after an ice shelf in Antarctica collapsed. In the years following the catastrophic collapse of the ice shelf at Halley ...
Ice Levels In Antarctica Increasing
Cynic contentions that Antarctica is picking up ice every now and again rely on a slip of oversight, to be specific overlooking the contrast between area ice and ocean ice. In glaciology and especially regarding Antarctic ice, not everything is ...
Planet Has More Trees
The last study showed that the world has about 3 trillion trees. That is over the estimate of 400 billion in previous studies. Researchers did a count by actually going out and physically counting trees, using satellite imagery, ground survey, ...
Climate Research Expedition to Antarctica via Airbnb
If you are interested in a research expedition to Antarctica then Airbnb is looking for you. It will be an all expenses paid trip for five lucky travelers. You will get to work with some researchers to study the climate ...
