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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. |
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 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. |
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 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. |
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. |
Searcher Nov/Dec 2003 David Mattison |
Information on the Seven Seas: International Ocean Science Web Resources (Part 2) A look at three areas of international cooperation in ocean science research: the physical and chemical ocean, meteorology, and marine life. |
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. |
Chemistry World September 11, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
Moulting seals bring mercury contamination to coast Elephant seals have been identified as a previously unrecognized source of mercury contamination in coastal waters by scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz |
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. |
Geotimes February 2006 Naomi Lubick |
Is Ocean Circulation Slowing Down? New measurements of temperature and salinity in the North Atlantic indicate that changes are occurring in this segment of the ocean's circulation that could eventually affect Earth's climate. |
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. |
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. |
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 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 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. |
Geotimes December 2005 Kevin E. Trenberth |
A Warming World Climate change is with us; we cannot stop it, although we can slow it down. It behooves us therefore to track how and why the climate is changing. |
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. |
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 |
IEEE Spectrum February 2008 Tekla S. Perry |
Roger Hill: Marches With Penguins This engineer encounters penguins and seals in Antarctica while developing computers for wildlife research. |
Geotimes February 2007 Nicole Branan |
Shifting Winds Shift Warming Trends? New model simulations indicate that a poleward shift in the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds could cause the Southern Ocean's carbon dioxide and heat uptake to increase by up to 20%. |
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. |
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. |
Wired December 2004 Sylvia A. Earle |
The Wild Blue Under The more we understand about life in extreme environments, the greater chance we'll know where to look in space. |
Financial Advisor September 2006 Karen DeMasters |
To The Rescue How this financial advisor's favorite pastime helps save marine mammals. |
Scientific American September 2008 Lucas Laursen |
Seismic "Noise"--Oil Prospecting Data Could Decipher Ocean Mixing A ring of warm, salty water in the Atlantic was recently imaged with seismic survey data taken 15 years ago |
Wired December 2004 Erika Check |
Mysteries of the Deep The top 15 places to explore beneath the sea. |
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 |
Geotimes June 2006 Kathryn Hansen |
Fish Teeth Bite Into Antarctic Formation Ancient fish teeth are taking a bite out of an old conundrum about how Antarctica became the frigid continent that it is today. The teeth suggest an early start to key oceanic processes that drove the climatic shift. |
Chemistry World July 19, 2012 Hayley Birch |
Ocean fertilization shows carbon sequestration promise New data from iron fertilization experiments in the Southern Ocean support the idea that artificially created algal blooms can draw carbon to the bottom of the ocean, where it may be stored for centuries. |
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. |
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 2013 Dave Levitan |
Laser Eyes Spy a Big Melt in the Arctic Airborne altimeters yield a disturbing picture of polar ice loss |
Scientific American December 2008 Barbara Juncosa |
Stations in the Seas: Permanent Underwater Observatories Scientists envisage unmanned labs on the floor of the ocean to conduct experiments and monitor climate change |
HHMI Bulletin February 2011 Rabiya Tuma |
Harboring Seals The Marine Mammal Center rehabilitates sick and injured animals, including California sea lions, elephant seals, and harbor seals, and then releases them back to the wild. |
Geotimes November 2005 Kathryn Hansen |
Salting a Stagnant Ocean In its Third Assessment Report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change flagged the potential sudden collapse of the thermohaline circulation in the Atlantic, which warms Europe to its current habitable climate, as a significant source of concern. |
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. |
Popular Mechanics October 1, 2008 Andrew Moseman |
Newest Arctic Melt Record Leaves Scientists Scratching Heads There's good news and bad news when it comes to the amount of ice in the Arctic. |
Geotimes January 2005 Megan Sever |
Stalagmite Shows Connected Climate Clues from inside caves in Costa Rica and Panama are helping scientists develop temperature and rainfall records for the last 20,000 years |
Geotimes January 2004 Naomi Lubick |
Saltier sea Oceanographers have documented the growing saltiness of the Atlantic in the tropics, in opposition to freshening of the polar oceans. The changes in the sea-surface salinity indicate changes in the hydrologic cycle, the researchers say, which may be attributable to human-induced climate changes. |
Wired December 2004 Michael Menduno |
Dive! Dive! Dive! Milestones on the voyage to the bottom of the sea |
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. |
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. |
Popular Mechanics July 1, 2009 Andrew Moseman |
5 Climate Studies That Don't Live Up to Their Hype A leading climate scientist argues that overbroad claims by some researchers -- coupled with overblown reporting in the media -- can undermine the public's understanding of climate issues. |
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. |
Geotimes March 2003 Greg Peterson |
Effects of ocean noise on marine mammals still noisy A committee of acousticians, oceanographers and marine biologists found that surprisingly little is known about the long-term trends in ocean noise, and even less about its effects on marine mammals. |
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. |
InternetNews September 23, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
A Wireless Web For Ocean Waters NetBEAMS sensor project broadcasts environmental data over inexpensive cell phones using Java open source software. |
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 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. |