je.st
news
Tag: melting
Greenlands ice sheet melting faster than previously believed
2014-05-26 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Copenhagen Post: The ice sheet in northern Greenland is melting and moving into the ocean thereby adding billions of tonnes of melting water to the worlds already rising ocean levels. Researchers from Denmarks Technical University (DTU), the University of Copenhagen and Aarhus University have documented that the outlet glacier in northeast Greenland, stretching from the inland ice sheet to the sea, has been moving towards the sea since 2006. Its very surprising that the northeast outlet glacier is moving. We...
Tags: previously
ice
sheet
faster
Iron From Melting Ice Sheets Could Have Major Impact On Global Warming
2014-05-22 01:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: A newly-discovered source of oceanic bioavailable iron could have a major impact on our understanding of marine food chains and global warming. A UK team, including researchers from the University of Bristol, has found that summer meltwaters from ice sheets are rich in iron, which will have important implications on phytoplankton growth. Their findings are reported today in Nature Communications. It is well known that bioavailable iron boosts phytoplankton growth in many of the Earths oceans....
Iron from Melting Ice Sheets May Buffer Effects of Global Warming
2014-05-21 21:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: A newly discovered source of iron from melting ice sheets may help buffer the effects of global warming. It is well known among the scientific community that bioavailable iron boosts phytoplankton growth in many of Earth's oceans. What possibly some don't realize is that phytoplankton capture carbon in the atmosphere, thus combating global warming's harmful carbon emissions. The plankton also feed into the bottom of the oceanic food chain, thus providing a food source for marine animals. A...
Melting B.C. glaciers major issue American state-of-the-union report on climate change
2014-05-18 20:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canadian Press: The mountains of British Columbia cradle glaciers that have scored the landscape over millenia, shaping the rugged West Coast since long before it was the West Coast. But theyre in rapid retreat, and an American state-of-the-union report on climate change has singled out the rapid melt in British Columbia and Alaska as a major climate change issue. Most glaciers in Alaska and British Columbia are shrinking substantially, said the U.S. National Climate Assessment, released last week to much...
Tags: report
change
american
major
You Know Ocean in Trouble When Your Shell Starts Melting
2014-05-18 15:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: Things are getting really dicey for a little ocean creature called a pteropod. Better known as the "sea butterfly," this delicate little sea snail is serving as an unfortunate bellwether of the deteriorating state of our oceans. Why? Conditions in the Antarctic ocean and along the West Coast of the U.S. have become so unnaturally acidic that the shells of sea butterflies are literally dissolving away. "We did not expect to see pteropods being affected to this extent in our coastal region for several...
Tags: your
trouble
starts
ocean
Sites : [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] next »