Posted by Jeff on Dec 18, 2016 @ 7:19 am in Conservation | 0 comments | Last modified: December 17, 2016
Scientists at institutions in the United States and Australia published a set of unprecedented ocean observations near the largest glacier of the largest ice sheet in the world: Totten glacier, East Antarctica. And the result was a troubling confirmation of what scientists already feared — Totten is melting from below. The measurements, sampling ocean temperatures in...
Learn MorePosted by Jeff on May 23, 2016 @ 6:28 am in Conservation | 0 comments | Last modified: May 22, 2016
Scientists ringing alarm bells about the melting of Antarctica have focused most of their attention, so far, on the smaller West Antarctic ice sheet, which is grounded deep below sea level and highly exposed to the influence of warming seas. But new research published in the journal Nature reaffirms that there’s a possibly even bigger — if slower moving — threat in the...
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