A new analysis of 200,000 glaciers worldwide paints a picture of a future planet with a lot less ice and a lot more water. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/melting-small-glaciers-sea-level-rise…
Tag: Antarctica
The Southern Ocean may be less of a carbon sink than we thought
The Southern Ocean’s ability to suck up much of the carbon that humans pump into the atmosphere is in question. Source: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/southern-ocean-antarctica-absorbs-less-carbon-expected4…
Ancient Rocky Structure Found Beneath Antarctica. And It’s Messing with the Ice.
The potential for the Ross ice shelf in Antarctica to collapse is determined by a newly discovered rock boundary running right down the middle of the ice. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65588-ancient-rocky-structure-beneath-antarctica.html
More West Antarctic glacier ice now unstable
By combining 25 years of satellite data, scientists have discovered that warming ocean waters have caused the ice to thin so rapidly that 24% of the glacier ice in West Antarctica is now affected. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/west-antarctica-ice-unstable…
Nearly 25% of West Antarctic Ice in Danger of Collapse
Decades of climate change have severely weakened 24% of western Antarctica’s ice. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65524-antarctica-ice-unstable.html
May 18 Blue Moon near Antares, Jupiter, Ceres
In North America, the May full moon carries the name Flower Moon. 2019’s May full moon on the 18th is a Blue Moon, the 3rd of 4 moons in a season. This Blue Moon will be near bright Antares and brighter Jupiter. It’ll be poised to occult dwarf planet Ceres. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/seasonal-blue-moon-on-may-18-2019…
Oliver Sacks’ Recommended Reading List of 46 Books: From Plants and Neuroscience, to Poetry and the Prose of Nabokov
Image by Luigi Novi. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons We remember Oliver Sacks as a neurologist, but we remember him not least because he wrote quite a few books as well. If you read those books, you’ll get a sense of Sacks’ wide range of interests — invention, perception and misperception, hallucination, and […]
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Penguin and seal dung nourishes organisms that are kilometres away
Nitrogen from penguin and seal faeces in Antarctica can spread to an area up to 240 times the original colony, which serves as a vital nutrient for other plants and animals Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2202026-penguin-and-seal-dung-nourishes-organisms-that-are-kilometres-away/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Herbie Hancock’s Joyous Soundtrack for the Original Fat Albert TV Special (1969)
Millions of kids grew up with the groovy yet educational cartoon comedy of Fat Albert, and millions of adults may find it difficult or impossible now to watch the show without thinking of the crimes of its creator. Such is life in the 21st century, but so it was too at the end of the […]
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Mystery Sea Opened Up During the Antarctic Winter. Now, Scientists Know Why.
In 2017, the open sea grew nearly 100 times its size in just a month. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65361-antarctica-mystery-open-sea.html