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Warm water melts ‘Doomsday Glacier’ half a mile every year, finds study
If other polar regions imitate the process, it could potentially lead to a reassessment of global sea-level rise projections.
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Polar warning: Warming temperatures mean more than melted ice
A new study finds the terrestrial part of the Arctic has shifted from being a greenhouse gas sink to being a source. Another ...
For the first time, there's visual evidence warm sea water is pushing under doomsday glacier: Study
A team of international researchers say warm sea water is pushing underneath the Thwaites Glacier, also dubbed the doomsday glacier, causing sea levels to rise. New evidence captured by satelitte ...
Heavy water: How melting ice sheets and pumped groundwater can lower local sea levels—and boost them elsewhere
Imagine you're standing near the edge of the Antarctic Ice Sheet, gazing out over the ocean, when the ice near you starts to ...
NASA’s PREFIRE Climate Change CubeSat Launched To Decode Earth’s Polar Mysteries
NASA's PREFIRE mission uses CubeSats to track heat emissions from Earth's poles, enhancing predictions for sea ice loss and ...
NASA PREFIRE mission set to launch to study Earth’s polar regions
NASA is set to launch the first of two research satellites to measure how much heat is lost to space from the Arctic and ...
NASA’s new mission to study polar regions’ heat loss to launch on May 22: All you need to know
Twin shoebox-size climate satellites will start crisscrossing Earth’s atmosphere in a few months, and are expected to expand ...
Researchers find high magnetic field facilitates novel intrinsic ferromagnetic polar metals
Researchers have designed a novel oxide material, Ca3Co3O8, through atomic precision manipulation of correlated oxides. It ...
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Black Explorers Connect to Shared History in Polar Academy: ‘You Can’t Be Something if You Can’t See Something’
Participants in the free winter training plan to bring back the skills they learned and share them with their communities.
Successful satellite launch will let NASA measure polar heat loss
NASA on Saturday successfully launched a satellite it hopes will be able to measure how much heat is lost to space from the ...
Suffering from allergies? So are beavers, polar bear and goat
At Tacoma's Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium, keepers are using vaccine-like methods to alleviate allergies among the zoo's ...
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NASA PREFIRE mission launches to study Earth’s polar regions
The climate science mission, known as Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment, or PREFIRE, aims to improve ...