SciencePoles news
Recent Polar Science and Climate Change news are featured here. Our news RSS feed will inform you when news are published on this website.
-
King Penguins Threatened by Climate Change
12.02.2008
A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) suggests that King penguins might be on the path to extinction as a result of global warming.
-
New Study on the Larsen B Ice Shelf Collapse in 2002
11.02.2008
Using satellite images, scientists from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) and the Aberystwyth University provided a detailed structural glaciological analysis of changes in surface structures on the Larsen B ice shelf before its collapse in 2002. According to this study, ponded meltwater is not the only culprit.…
-
New Insights into Role of Southern Ocean in Global Climate System
08.02.2008
The recent Polarstern expedition was dedicated to organisms and materials cycles in the ocean. Among other topics, a team of 53 scientists from 9 countries have been studying the biological carbon pump in the Southern Ocean. There, large quantities of surface-drifting plankton algae are able to significantly reduce the carbon…
-
New US South Pole Station Facility
08.02.2008
The United States have dedicated a brand new station at the geographic South Pole, the third on the spot since 1957. The new elevated station is larger and much more sophisticated than any previous structure built at the Pole - a reflection of the logistical support needed for the ever-increasing…
-
New Ice Core Analysis Confirms Evidence of Antarctic Peninsula’s Changing Weather Patterns
07.02.2008
Scientists from British Antarctic Survey and the Desert Research Institute have used analysis of a new core -dubbed Gomez- and direct observations made since the first permanent Antarctic research stations to provide new evidence of increased snowfall in the Antarctic Peninsula as it gets warmer.
-
Important Components of the Earth System Might Be Reaching Tipping Points
07.02.2008
Where the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) could lead non specialists to think of climate change as a smooth transition, scientists now warn that many components of the Earth system could display non-linear behaviour and transitions under human (anthropogenic) climate forcing.
-
Dome Argus Will House a Telescope
05.02.2008
For the second time in history, an expedition team has reached the summit of Antarctica at "Dome A". The purpose of this ascension was to install a revolutionary and fully automated astronomical observatory up on the Antarctic plateau.
-
Baffin Island Ice Caps Shrinking Fast
29.01.2008
Using radiocarbon dating of dead plant material, a new University of Colorado at Boulder study has shown that ice caps on the northern plateau of Baffin Island (Canadian Arctic) have shrunk by more than 50 percent in the last half century. These ice caps are expected to disappear by the…
-
Antarctic Ice Loss Accelerates, Catching up with Greenland’s Loss
25.01.2008
According to a new study by UC Irvine and NASA scientists, Ice loss in Antarctica increased by 75 percent over the last 10 years. This loss is mainly due to a speed-up in the flow of Antarctic glaciers.
-
WAIS Divide Project Extracts New Ice Core
24.01.2008
In the framework of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide (WAIS Divide) Ice Core Project, a 580-meter ice core has been recovered. It is the first section of what is hoped to be a 3,465-meter column of ice which will detail 100,000 years of Earth's climate history, including a precise…
