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Smithsonian October 2006 Anne Bolen |
Life in the Field - Frozen in Time Glaciers in the Pacific Northwest have recorded hundreds of years of climate history, helping researchers plot how quickly the planet is warming. |
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. |
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. |
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 |
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 October 2003 Sara Pratt |
New model for glacial erosion Understanding what controls glacial erosion may have important implications for understanding glaciated mountain belts and modeling both ancient and current ice sheets. |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum February 2011 Spencer Klein |
IceCube: The Polar Particle Hunter Searching Antarctica for the frozen paths of cosmic-ray neutrinos |
Science News February 14, 2009 Lonnie Thompson |
Receding Glaciers Erase Records Of Climate History Ice masses on the tops of mountains -- sticking out in the free atmosphere -- have been collecting climate data and storing them, in many cases for very long periods. |
Geotimes March 2006 Powell et al. |
Drilling Back to the Future Antarctica plays a fundamental role in sea-level change and ocean chemistry, and has the potential for important societal impacts over human timescales. |
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. |
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... |
Outside December 2004 Mark Jenkins |
Freezer Burn How do you go native on an island made of ice? Scale glaciers, strip down, and steam it off. |
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. |
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. |
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 |
Smithsonian August 2005 Laura Helmuth |
Phenomena and Curiosities: Baked Alaska A unique study documents the disappearance of Alaska's glaciers, blamed on global warming. |
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 |
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. |
Geotimes August 2007 Carolyn Gramling |
No More "Snows of Kilimanjaro"? Mount Kilimanjaro's glaciers have receded dramatically, making the highest point in Africa a high-profile poster child for global warming. Some scientists contend, however, that Kilimanjaro is a poor example, as its glaciers were disappearing before warming set in. |
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. |
Popular Mechanics September 2006 |
Scientists Are Finding Life In Earth's Coldest, Hottest, Weirdest Places By creating an alternative life chemistry in the lab, astrobiologist Steven Benner hopes to uncover a formula for alien microbes. How five big questions about life on our planet are shaping the search for it on other worlds. |
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 February 2007 Jeff Wise |
Building Canada's Epic Ice Road The truckers who haul 70-ton rigs hundreds of miles across Canada's frozen lakes aren't afraid of much except warm weather. |
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 |
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. |
Popular Mechanics December 7, 2007 Logan Ward |
Climate Engineers Build UAV, Radar to Process Subzero Mystery Combining digital radar equipment with unmanned aircraft gives scientists a much-needed edge in understanding why the polar ice sheets are undergoing rapid changes. |
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. |
Adventure August 2004 Lolly Merrell |
The Vanishing World of Lonnie Thompson A secret history of the world's climate, including global warming, is buried deep inside glaciers atop the world's tallest peaks. But as temperatures rise, those records are melting. One paleontologist/climatologist is racing to preserve a crucial piece of our past- in his freezer. |
Geotimes December 2003 Naomi Lubick |
Glacial earthquakes Seismologists have fingered glaciers as one source of newly discovered "slow" earthquakes. |
Popular Mechanics October 2006 Jim Gorman Diagrams |
Future Shocks Think mother nature has dealt us her worst? Think again. Here are five natural disasters poised to strike the United States, and why they will be like nothing we have ever seen... How to ride out an emergency... |
Adventure May 2004 Tim Cahill |
Blown Away Hot, dry katabatic winds, like the south foehn in Europe, the sharav in the Middle East, and the Santa Ana of Southern California, are all believed to have a decided effect on human behavior and are associated with such health problems as migraines, depression, lethargy, and moodiness. |
Geotimes October 2004 Jay Chapman |
Melting Glaciers Promote Earthquakes In southern Alaska, melting glaciers heat up the possibility of earthquakes. |
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 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 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 September 2005 Kathryn Hansen |
Around Mount Rainier The stratovolcano has not erupted since a few small events were recorded in the early 1800s. But numerous lahars -- mudflows triggered by various events -- continue to reshape the landscape, and the effects are visible throughout the park today. |
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. |
Reason October 2005 Sallie Baliunas |
Full of Hot Air Book review: A climate alarmist takes on "criminals against humanity" in Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists and Activists Are Fueling the Climate Crisis -- And What We Can Do to Avert the Disaster, by Ross Gelbspan. |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum February 2005 William Sweet |
Victor Zagorodnov: Getting High on Glaciers How did a Russian who worked his way through an institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, earning degrees in electrical engineering and hydrology, end up working in Ohio for the world's leading research group in the field of tropical and subtropical glaciers? |
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. |
Outside November 2003 Mark Jenkins |
Head Trip Sometimes the toughest climb is out of your mind and into your own animal skin: knowing how, as an alpine climber, to turn off your head sometimes. |
Outside June 2002 Natasha Singer |
My Iceland Obsession Only on this remote North Atlantic island do you find such glorious quirks as tolting ponies and entire villages of sleep-deprived puffin chasers... |
Scientific American April 2007 David Biello |
Conservative Climate The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's consensus document may understate the climate change problem. |
Geotimes October 2003 Sara Pratt |
Ancient glaciers near L.A. The small alpine glaciers that once existed 120 kilometers east of Los Angeles, Calif., were, according to a new study, present as recently as 5,000 years ago, a time when regions to the north had already become ice-free. |
Geotimes July 2005 |
Swiss Wrap Glacier for Summer Workers at the Andermatt ski resort in Switzerland wrapped about 3,000 square meters of Gurschen glacier with a layer of plastic foil that is designed to reflect heat and radiation from the sun, preventing the glacier from absorbing as much heat and thus slowing the melt. |
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. |
Chemistry World November 29, 2012 Jon Evans |
Messenger spots Mercury performing organic chemistry Nasa's Messenger spacecraft has uncovered evidence that not only does water ice exist on the surface of the planet Mercury, but in many places this ice appears to be covered in a 10cm-thick layer of soot-like organic material. |
Geotimes February 2004 Hetherington et al. |
Quest for the Lost Land The search for early Americans is taking researchers to the coast of British Columbia, where a now-submerged landscape may hold clues to the first settlers' coastal migration. |