remains largely “unquantified” in most glacial models. Now a pair of researchers, William Kochtitzky and Luke Copland, from the University of Ottawa in Ontario, Canada, are the first to map out all of the glaciers that end in the ocean in...
If you’re taking a cruise to Antarctica itself (as opposed to one that visits the remote island regions of the southern oceans) then you’re going to cross the Drake Passage. Sometimes the Drake Passage is completely calm, but you shouldn’t count on it. Instead, prepare as if you’re...
It's also probably one the most vulnerable of the oldest living things, because if the permafrost melts, it won't survive. This is a map that I've put together of the oldest living things, so you can get a sense of where they are; you see they're all over the world. The blue...
but it is growing, and it is taking up a bigger and bigger share of the sea level rise that we see every year," he added. "So, it's a symbol of the growing dominance of Antarctica in the sea level rise equation."
Sentence Correction_Antarctica receives more solar radiation than does any other place on Earth, yet the temperatures are so cold and the ice cap is reflective, so that little polar ice melts during the summer; otherwise, the water levels of the oceans w
The maps above show where and when the iceberg thinned as it drifted north from the Weddell Sea into the Scotia Sea. The first map (left) shows the berg’s thickness in July 2017, when it was still near the Larsen C Ice Shelf. Notice that it is thicker on its left side, where it...
because if the permafrost melts, it won't survive. 00:00 This is a map that I've put together of the oldest living things, so you can get a sense of where they are; you see they're all over the world. The blue flags represent things that I've already photographed, and th...
Phosphorus is essential for agriculture, yet this important plant nutrient is increasingly being lost from soils around the world. The primary cause is soil erosion, reports an international research team led by the University of Basel. The study in the
Antarctica receives more solar radiation than does any other place on Earth, yet the temperatures are so cold and the ice cap is reflective, so that little polar ice melts during the summer; otherwise, the water levels of the oceans would rise 250 feet a
Global climate models project that the Arctic will see a stronger surface warming than Antarctica, and both are warming up considerably faster than the rest of the Earth, mainly because of differences in how these areas reflect energy from the sun (top panel of Figure 3). The highest rainfall...