| 单词 | ice cap |
| 例句 | From afar it brought to mind a bad train wreck, as if scores of ghostly white boxcars had derailed at the lip of the ice cap and tumbled down the slope willy-nilly. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But most may be in the present polar ice caps. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Which meant a quick melting of the polar ice caps. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z When I finally arrived on the frozen plain of the ice cap, I found that my tracks had long since drifted over. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z For the next hour he circled the ice cap, scanning its barren contours without success. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In Alaska I’d put up a hairy new route on the Mooses Tooth, and pulled off a solo ascent of the Devils Thumb that involved spending three weeks alone on a remote ice cap. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The Arctic and Antarctic ice caps will melt, flooding the coasts of the world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A remote explosion had occurred somewhere, perhaps back at Emerson's or that night in Bledsoe's office, and it had caused the ice cap to melt and shift the slightest bit. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Lowell deduced that when the planet’s oceans dried up, the Martians built a system of canals thousands of miles long to move water from the polar ice caps to dry areas. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Instead of descending to my base camp on the ice cap, though, I decided to spend the night on the steep flank of the mountain, just below my high point. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Might this cooling increase the size of the polar ice cap, which, because it is bright, will reflect still more sunlight from the Earth, further cooling the planet, driving a runaway albedo' effect? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, looking down at the melting ice cap, the flooded lowland forests, the swollen sea, she felt heartsick. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z On May 6,1 set up a base camp on the ice cap just northeast of the Thumb and waited for the airdrop. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z So now the polar ice caps are melting, sea levels are rising, and the weather is all messed up. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z A small hanging glacier extends out from the lip of the ice cap, leading up and across the north face of the Thumb like a catwalk. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They talked about asteroids, volcanoes, and melting ice caps. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z But most of Greenland is covered by an ice cap, and even the two most favorable coastal fjords were marginal for Norse food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It is for the possession of these thickly populated regions, and of the northern ice cap, that the three powers are constantly struggling. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z There are polar ice caps, drifting white clouds, raging dust storms, seasonally changing patterns on its red surface, even a twenty-four-hour day. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Widening inequality, surging nationalism, burning forests, melting ice caps: He describes an overwhelming sense of foreboding, the fear that whatever civilizational edifice has been erected was on the verge of total collapse. ‘Notes From an Apocalypse’ Is a Timely Tour of Preparing for the Worst 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Temperatures in the region are rising faster than anywhere else on earth, causing the ice cap to melt. Jarvis Cocker: the iceman cometh 2012-06-02T19:53:37Z At 17, she won a national writing contest for an essay warning that the polar ice cap would begin to melt by the year 2000. Joanna Coles: The Cosmo Woman 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z They made their way over to the plane, a 1968 Twin Otter first used by the British Geological Survey on the Antarctic ice cap. Manny Jacinto of ‘The Good Place’ Plummets to Earth 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z His latest show, Thin Ice, is a climate crisis thriller set among the melting ice caps of east Greenland. Fjord focus: Nordic noir lets the light in at last 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z “That will crack the ice cap over the culture of the organization,” he added. The Former Youth TV Star on a Mission to Transform the BBC 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z Making the Ice Road Truckers look like they're operating suburban milk floats, Ice Pilots are the cockpit operators who service the scientific research teams working at the polar ice caps. TV highlights 28/06/2013 2013-06-28T06:00:08Z The Pulitzer jury called it "haunting … evoking thoughts of melting polar ice caps and rising sea levels," and the New Yorker's Alex Ross deemed it "the loveliest apocalypse in musical history." Seattle conductor Ludovic Morlot at the helm of the L.A. Phil for 'Become Ocean' 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z The polar ice caps are melting before our eyes. Is Tinsel Canceled? 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Thick slabs of hamachi and chunks of cucumber practically shiver under a citrus ice cap in a brisk ceviche punctuated with pickled red onion. Another Ethan Stowell winner, mkt., is simple yet sumptuous 2014-01-16T21:35:45Z The retail equivalent of the melting Arctic ice cap. First Person: Why Department Stores Are Vital – First Person 2012-11-23T22:09:35Z The moon’s polar ice caps, discovered in 2008, contain both oxygen to breathe and hydrogen for fuel. Fifty Years After Apollo 11, the View of Earth from the Moon 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z The ice caps are melting, the Dow teeters, and a divided country seems headed for divorce court. Why Is CBD Everywhere? 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z Also shown are maps of new Arctic shipping routes that will open as the polar ice cap dwindles. In the galleries: Multiple photographic perspectives at the Art Gallery at UMd 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z With few tourist facilities and an ice cap that takes up about 80 percent of its land mass, Greenland is not an easy place to visit. In Transit Blog: In Greenland, a Safari-Style Camp 2014-03-26T17:21:07Z The ice caps have melted, and much of the land is underwater. In a New Dystopian Novel, the Country is AutoAmerica, but Baseball Is Still Its Pastime 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z Finally a Russian plane took us to the Arctic ice cap. Experience: I reached both the north and south poles 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z He freaked out the room by explaining that the ice caps were going to melt and threaten the human race. 16 Things We Learned After a Day at 'Weird Al' Yankovic's House 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z But much research indicates that as forests disappear and polar ice caps melt, etc., there are unpredictable feedback mechanisms that will make global warming increasingly difficult to tackle. From global warming to fluoride: Why do people deny science? 2013-05-25T20:30:00Z As the ice caps melt, the trickle of movies about nature’s revenge may turn into a deluge. Review: ‘In the Heart of the Sea,’ It’s Man vs. Leviathan 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z The physician spoke about her fertility the way Al Gore describes the polar ice caps: Time is running out, and it may already be too late. Modern Love: A Brother?s Need, a Sister?s Gift 2010-07-16T16:53:00Z Early on, the authors attempt a loose link: “The carbon that fuels our electronic life is melting the ice caps,” they write. 'The Age of Earthquakes' looks back instead of forward 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Famine, pestilence, melting ice caps and other catastrophes wrought by Kali will be visited on the disrespectful. Art Review: A Life-Affirming Female Force, Ready to Rumble 2011-07-07T21:58:23Z With wisdom and compassion, MacFarlane surveys burial chambers, ice caps, catacombs, fungal networks, nuclear storage facilities and more. The 10 books to read in June 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z The fact that it is eroding should really be a great alarm to people, as much as the ice caps are eroding. “Problems like this don’t go away overnight”: “Spotlight” director Tom McCarthy calls for the Catholic Church to do more to address and prevent sex abuse 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z He believes that water, and the fact that climate change is making more of it as ice caps melt and sea levels rise, will come to define life in the 21st century. Floodwaters make statement in 'Holoscenes' at Museum of California Art 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z Watching modern explorers attempt to get to the North Pole while ice caps melt around them might be enough to get even the staunchest of global warming apologists talking. Last Race to the Pole: will the reality show be the final North Pole trek? 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z In Greenland, the rapidly melting ice cap is uncovering dangerous uranium deposits that threaten the Inuit people. Climate Exhibitions Look Beyond Declarations of Calamity 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Unless you’re in the middle of the desert or over an ice cap, hospitals, clinics and police are there to help. How to Plan In Case Things Go Wrong 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z The Greenland ice cap … 'Both believers in and deniers of climate change find their positions vary with the weather.' If we are to cope with climate change we need a new moral order 2012-08-21T07:30:01Z In the future, melted ice caps or whatever’s keeping the arctic fox in episode two awake at night will be the least of our worries. Life Story: is this David Attenborough’s swan song? 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z The trail starts near the western edge of the ice cap and continues across one of the island’s largest snow-and-ice-free expanses to Sisimiut and the Davis Strait, which separates the Labrador Sea and Baffin Bay. Trekking through fire and ice on Greenland’s 102-mile Arctic Circle Trail 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Our modern preoccupations with rising seas map directly onto these stories, as we assign fault for the global warming that is melting ice caps and inching the ocean up the shore. Writers imagined drowned worlds for centuries — what they tell us about the future 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z In 2006-7, the artist spent two months with British Antarctic Survey researchers on the ice cap. Special Report: Contemporary Art: Where Humankind and Nature Converge 2011-02-24T13:00:04Z After the 2016 presidential election, the artist Catherine Opie began cutting up magazines and collecting images of political import: photographs of guns, senators, baby seals on shrinking ice caps. Catherine Opie’s Work Is More Urgent Now Than Ever 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z When man retaliates with nukes, the invaders begin to blowtorch the polar ice caps. Analysis | The novel that inspired ‘Blade Runner’ didn’t predict our current reality, but these writers did 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z One of my new maps, Britannia Under the Waves, shows how the British Isles would look if the ice caps completely melted. Fantasy map-making: 'I like vintage style with a modern twist' 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z Besides, when the polar ice caps melt and the world is in flames, Democrat, Republican — none of that will matter anymore. Michael Lewis Makes a Story About Government Infrastructure Exciting 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z It starts with butter, more than you think is necessary, that sits like an ice cap slowly melting in the pan. Polish Pierogi, Savory and Sweet, at Pierozek in Greenpoint 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Scientists who accompanied these explorers helped prove that Antarctica was a continent — not just a big ice cap like the Arctic — where plants and animals had once flourished. Science and the Race for the South Pole 2011-06-03T16:50:45Z “I really hope that when the ice caps melt, it ruins every rug at Mar-a-Lago.” Jimmy Kimmel Explains Trump’s Backdrop for Leaving Paris Accord 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z “I’m promoting this part of the world without an ice cap. The ice is almost gone. There is an ocean there.” What’s this Washington insider and billionaire’s wife doing in Alaska? 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z The polar ice cap is melting at an alarming rate. Perspective | A new media strategy for selling the seriousness of the climate crisis: Humor 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z "We have some time," he says when I ask about the pace of climate change and the prospect of weaning ourselves off oil in time to stop the ice caps melting. Tim Flannery: A life in books 2011-03-14T07:59:01Z While Greenland’s main industry today is fishing, its population, which is concentrated in the thin strip of land between the coast and the ice cap straddling the interior, is mostly urbanized. The Young Queer Writer Who Became Greenland’s Unlikely Literary Star 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Ensconced in their bubble, the characters are indifferent to the news on their touch screens: a Category 5 hurricane hits Rhode Island; oil platforms are drilling on the site of the former Arctic ice cap. A month ago, ‘Incorporated’ would have felt different. Same with Dolly Parton’s Christmas movie. 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Children are in cages, thermometers are rising, ice caps are melting. Review | ‘Making It’ is a charming reminder that we are in the grips of a cutesiness epidemic 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z The fact that it is eroding should really be a great alarm to people, as much as the ice caps are eroding. “Problems like this don’t go away overnight”: “Spotlight” director Tom McCarthy calls for the Catholic Church to do more to address and prevent sex abuse 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z Almost as scary as the state of the ice caps themselves. TV highlights 28/06/2013 2013-06-28T06:00:08Z More permanent pieces were created from the patterns of echograms of the ice cap. Special Report: Contemporary Art: Where Humankind and Nature Converge 2011-02-24T13:00:04Z "Melting ice caps, extreme weather, and marine ecosystems, including coral reefs, are all highly sensitive to ocean temperature changes," says Dr Sjoerd Groeskamp, co-author of the study from the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research. Ocean warming is accelerating, and hotspots reveal which areas are absorbing the most heat 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z For example, Peru's Quelccaya glacier, once the world's largest tropical ice cap, has shrunk by 31 per cent in the last 30 years contributing to periodic dry season water scarcity and widespread impacts. Report warns about risk tipping points with irreversible impacts on people and planet 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z The height is determined by planting small receivers in the snow to model the ice cap that sits at the top. France's highest mountain Mont Blanc is shrinking 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z Greenland, a semi-sovereign territory of Denmark in the North Atlantic Ocean with a population of just 57,000, attracts tourists with its rugged landscape and a vast ice cap that covers much of the island. Luxury cruise ship remains stuck in Greenland as tide fails to help 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z When the planet warms, other things happen, too, such as melting polar ice caps, rising oceans, more wildfires and stronger hurricanes. What Do Climate Scientists Tell Their Kids about the Future? 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z "Wilson and Beisembayev ditched sugar for heroism and sentiment for noble eloquence - and the utter glory of that heady, vibrant string sound could melt anything that remains of the polar ice caps," she wrote. Alim Besembaiev: Pianist's hands shake at last-minute Proms debut 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z But as global temperatures rise with global warming, fresh water is pouring into the Amoc from the melting Greenland ice cap and other sources. Will the Gulf Stream really collapse by 2025? 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z Until recently, researchers thought that these water-driven effects would be caused mainly by the melting of glaciers and ice caps. Rampant Groundwater Pumping Has Changed the Tilt of Earth’s Axis 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z It would mean a mountain with an ice cap, not covered head to toe. Mount Rainier is melting. Can anything be done to stop it? 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z The region is becoming strategically more important as a shrinking ice cap opens up new sea lanes and attracts other nations seeking its largely untapped natural resources. US to open diplomatic station in Arctic Norway, says Blinken 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Despite every green initiative, in 2023 we are cramming yet more carbon into Earth's atmosphere, causing global temperature rises and melting ice caps and glaciers. We abandoned nuclear power. Now, Earth is paying the price 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z Who would have thought that serious biblical scholarship could help preserve the ice caps and stem the rising seas? Opinion: How a misreading of the Bible fuels many Americans' apathy about climate change 2023-05-03T04:00:00Z For one, there’s the rigid political polarization that characterizes the America into which they were born; for another, the polar ice caps are melting. Review | Jean Twenge is ready to make you defend your generation again 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Redford would like Western Australia’s big dark sky to become a sought-after tourism asset, like the Great Barrier Reef or Antarctica’s ice caps. The Biggest, Darkest Sky in Australia 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z To the younger generation, it’s bad enough inheriting melting ice caps, rising oceans and flaming rainforests. Perspective | What’s the best way to get rid of old portrait paintings? 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z This can be seen in the image, with the right side of the ice giant brightening at its north polar ice cap, which is facing toward the sun. JWST Captures Stunning Image of Rings around Uranus 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z When temperatures drop, Earth’s ice caps expand, reflecting sunlight and creating further cooling. Life may have survived far north of equator during ‘Snowball Earth’ 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z "People think climate change is this faraway thing and you have these visions in your mind of polar bears on ice caps, but actually it's something that's very close to home," Mr Harman-Turner said. Football kit redesigns highlight climate change 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z But as fresh water from the ice cap melts, sea water becomes less salty and dense, and the downwards movement slows. Antarctic ocean currents heading for collapse- report 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z A former rugby player who suffered severe spinal injuries is to cross the largest ice cap in western Europe. Ed Jackson and his team to cross Vatnajokull Glacier 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z Melting ice caps and glaciers add to increases in sea level, and more moisture in the air causes instability in weather patterns. Danger in a vanishing world - the ice-cold nerve of Will Gadd 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z “That includes things like food security, water scarcity, extreme heat, melting of arctic ice caps and different weather patterns that are going to influence people on the ground.” A Climate Scientist Is Evaluating the U.S.’s Spy Programs 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z The Arctic is taking on greater strategic significance due to climate change, as a shrinking ice cap opens up new sea lanes. Putin touts Russia's 'Arctic power' with launch of nuclear icebreakers 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z But I also had to accept that the Kilimanjaro I had imagined since I was a kid — that third ice cap — is already gone. As climate change melts the storied snows of Mt. Kilimanjaro, a climb to the roof of Africa 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z The most severe consequences of melting ice caps might not come for decades or even longer. Opinion | The world’s ice is melting. Humanity must prepare for the consequences. 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z Kilimanjaro is known for its ice cap and glaciers and has been made famous in the climbing world by figures such as the legendary Reinhold Messner. Danger in a vanishing world - the ice-cold nerve of Will Gadd 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z On the other hand, I also love living on a planet that is hospitable; one not ravaged by massive hurricanes, endless droughts, seasons of wildfires, killer floods, melting ice caps and dangerously warm oceans. Shifting gears to electric vehicles 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z China has its eye on mineral resources and new shipping routes as ice caps recede with rising temperatures. U.S. to name ambassador-at-large for the Arctic 2022-08-27T04:00:00Z Global warming will produce rising sea levels partly due to melting ice caps but also due to the expansion of water as average ocean temperatures rise. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z As glaciers and polar ice caps melt, there is a significant contribution of liquid water that was previously frozen. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Meteorites are called finds or falls according to how they are discovered; the most productive source today is the Antarctic ice cap. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Likewise, the melting of ice caps moves matter around on Earth and thus can change the rate of spin. Earth is spinning faster than it should be and no one is sure why 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z The melting of the polar ice caps and glaciers resulting in sea level rise. Dawn of the apocalypse: Existential crisis for our species is right here, right now 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z Warming temperatures contribute to sea level rise by expanding ocean water, melting mountain glaciers and ice caps, and causing portions of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets to melt or flow into the ocean. Environmental Biology 2018-09-06T00:00:00Z As the glaciers and ice caps melt due to global warming, this freshwater is lost as it flows into the oceans. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z If Earth were to become significantly hotter, either because of changes in the Sun or because of greenhouse warming, one effect would be an increase in the rate of melting of the polar ice caps. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z It also makes reference to previous findings that the particles deposited on snow or ice caps can speed up melting, in part by absorbing light. Microplastics found in fresh Antarctic snow, as pollutants spread 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z The last time the earth's temperature rose 4 degrees Celsius, the polar ice caps did not exist and the seas were hundreds of feet above their current levels. Dawn of the apocalypse: Existential crisis for our species is right here, right now 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z Polar ice caps and mountains are also shown. Environmental Biology 2018-09-06T00:00:00Z Snowfields, ice caps and glaciers around the world are already melting fast, and scientists say dark-coloured microplastics deposited at these locations can make things worse by absorbing sunlight and enhancing local heating. Microplastics found in fresh Antarctic snow 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z On the other hand, bright polar ice caps can be seen easily, together with dusky surface markings that sometimes change in outline and intensity from season to season. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z If it were that simple, the ice caps wouldn’t be melting. Review | What makes puzzles so alluring? A.J. Jacobs looks for clues. 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z Scientists knew about the greenhouse effect, but they weren’t yet widely touting the dangers of melting polar ice caps and sea-level rise. How Antarctica Has Changed Since Shackleton’s 1915 Shipwreck 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z Thompson also stands out because of comments like his response to scientists’ concerns that coastal cities are in danger as polar ice caps melt and sea levels rise. Kansas impasse shows green energy opposition has lost steam 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Gulf coast is under serious threat from rising seas as the planet’s polar ice caps melt, the U.N. report says. UN report paints dire picture of the Gulf of Mexico’s future 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z The Greenland ice sheet has about 2.85 times as much ice as in the polar ice caps on Mars. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z They could map small ice caps in South America, Europe and New Zealand that had never been mapped before. Water Supplies From Glaciers May Peak Sooner Than Anticipated 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z The team’s reconstruction of the Svalbard glaciers in 1936 reveals, in striking detail, how much some of the ice caps shrank between then and 2010. A Trove of Old Photos Could Reveal the Future of These Arctic Glaciers 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, melting polar ice caps have raised global sea levels an average of eight or nine inches since 1880, heightening the risk of coastal floods. More than 40 percent of Americans live in counties hit by climate disasters in 2021 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z Buoyed by these results, the team shifted its sights to one of Iceland’s largest and most dangerous volcanoes, Grímsvötn, which is buried beneath an ice cap but monitored only by a lone seismic station. Cheap and rugged optical fibers are revealing Earth’s hidden motions 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Earth on the Edge This new documentary special provides a look at the melting polar ice caps and changing weather patterns as the world gets warmer. What's on TV Saturday: 'A Christmas Together With You' on Hallmark; USC vs. UCLA on Fox 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, in the backrooms, the planet’s actuarial accountants were toting up how many more gigatons of carbon dioxide equivalents the world can emit before the polar ice caps melt. The spectacle of COP26: Inside with diplomats and carbon counters, outside with protesters and their manure 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z The melting Arctic ice cap and rising seas are evidence enough. Column: Climate change is distressingly real. But it's not behind all major weather events 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z It said in Monday’s update that if melting of the Antarctic ice cap accelerates, then sea levels could rise by 2 meters by 2100. Dutch agency: Netherlands could face higher sea level rises 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z It last erupted for 4 days in 2011, blowing a hole in the ice cap and lofting ash into the stratosphere that grounded hundreds of transatlantic flights. Cheap and rugged optical fibers are revealing Earth’s hidden motions 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Around 92 million years ago, for example, temperatures were so high that there were no polar ice caps and crocodile-like creatures lived as far north as the Canadian Arctic. Climate change: How do we know it is happening and caused by humans? 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z An article from 1971 in the company's magazine, Total Information, mentioned partial melting of ice caps, researchers found. TotalEnergies accused of downplaying climate risks 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z Slowly but steadily, like polar ice caps, the core of working-class Boston is diminishing. Candidate for ‘mayah’ proudly leans into her Boston accent 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z Oceanways say it may be able to swim beneath the polar ice cap. Unmanned submarine earmarked for Irish Sea freight crossings 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z As global warming accelerates melting of the ice cap, it could uncork Grímsvötn; the declining weight could allow pressurized magma to more easily fracture its rock jailhouse and escape. Cheap and rugged optical fibers are revealing Earth’s hidden motions 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z To look so far back in time, researchers rely on chemical analyses of samples from polar ice caps, as well as from ancient trees preserved in waterlogged bogs or high on mountaintops. Solar ‘Superflares’ Rocked Earth Less Than 10,000 Years Ago—and Could Strike Again 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z But Cassidy said he won’t vote for any policies to curb the amount of oil that is drilled off the Louisiana coast — the burning of which is contributing to melting ice caps and rising seas. Amid extreme weather, a shift among Republicans on climate change 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z Sherrell’s reactions to melting ice caps, rising tides and violent storms are mixed. Review | Climate science may change minds. Climate sadness can change hearts. 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z “The Daily Show” did not melt the polar ice caps, but it did contribute to a major shift in the entertainment ecosystem, largely by mainstreaming sharp political satire and breathing new life into late-night television. What made 'The Daily Show' the most influential late-night comedy of the last 25 years 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Their best guess is that it is a resonance, generated as tremors ring the 300-meter-thick ice cap like a bell. Cheap and rugged optical fibers are revealing Earth’s hidden motions 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Our planet is getting warmer, our ice caps are melting and our seas are rising. Climate crisis: ‘Wake up’ 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z In a week of consultations with other members of the Arctic Council, Blinken repeatedly assailed Russia’s “militarization” of the northern ice cap region. U.S. pushes back as ice caps melt in the Arctic and Russia moves in 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z More people want to make sure that their ketchup, cookies or mac and cheese are not helping to melt the polar ice caps. The Big Money Is Going Vegan 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z Where frequent snowfall once replenished the ice caps, heavy rain might fall instead. As climate change thaws mountain tops, risks of rockfalls surge | Reuters Furthermore, features such as polar ice caps, canyons, lava tubes and sand dunes offer poor prospects for wheeled rovers and would require alternate forms of mobility. How NASA Aims to Achieve Perseverance’s High-Stakes Mars Landing 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z Rising sea level driven by heating, as well as the melting of glaciers and ice caps was important, she said. Climate crisis: record ocean heat in 2020 supercharged extreme weather 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z And the unyielding ice cap that has held the top of the planet in its frozen grip for 15 million years is melting. The untold story of the boldest polar expedition of modern times 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z But after the western Antarctic polar ice cap melted, Elliott Bay lapped Alaskan Way and eased up over First Avenue. Seeing 2020: A vision of Seattle’s future from 1984 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z Melting ice caps in the Arctic will open up resources and shipping lanes that could be a game-changer for Moscow, he said. ‘Russian aggression’: Sweden to reconstitute armed forces over feared attack 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z The father of an intrepid youngster prepares her for the end of the world, when melting ice caps release fearsome beasts, called aurochs, and rising flood waters threaten to engulf their Delta home. Movies on TV this week: 'The Bridge on the River Kwai,' KCET 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z Climate change threatens to melt the ice caps, raise sea levels, destroy agriculture over swaths of the world, and is already causing humanitarian disasters. 'We've had so many wins': why the green movement can overcome climate crisis 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z There is no land in the high Arctic—the ice cap here floats atop an abyss of frigid seawater. The untold story of the boldest polar expedition of modern times 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z “There is not enough heat flow to support a brine here, even under the ice cap.” Water on Mars: discovery of three buried lakes intrigues scientists 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z With Siberia seeing its warmest temperature on record this year and enormous chunks of ice caps in Greenland and Canada sliding into the sea, countries are acutely aware there’s no vaccine for global warming. Leaders to UN: If virus doesn’t kill us, climate change will 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z Earlier this week, the earth’s northern ice cap also showed the impacts of the climate crisis. Melting Antarctic ice will raise sea level by 2.5 metres – even if Paris climate goals are met, study finds 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z We discussed how climate change is melting the ice caps polar bears call home, leading to their extinction. I lived the climate crisis every day of my childhood. This November, I'll vote on it | Jessica Díaz Vázquez 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z At their current pace, the ship they needed to reach at the ice cap’s edge was still a month’s journey away. The untold story of the boldest polar expedition of modern times 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z The climate crisis is heating the Arctic at double the rate in lower latitudes, and the ice cap is the biggest single contributor to sea level rise, which already imperils coasts around the world. Greenland ice sheet lost a record 1m tonnes of ice per minute in 2019 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z As polar ice caps are at risk of disappearing, the Arctic, Amazon and Australia burn and heat records break like waves. Horse eyeballs and bone hammers: surprising lives of the Neanderthals 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z When the ice caps melted, the strait reappeared, and plant and animal life flooded back. Heat-resistant corals offer hope as climate crisis warms up oceans 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z "We are not going to escape from the melting of the polar ice caps, the rise in sea levels and the other extremely harmful consequences of global warming," Chomsky told Solomon-Wood and the online audience. Noam Chomsky: Mitch McConnell is "the real evil genius" of the Trump administration 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z They aimed to ski 1,000 miles across the entirety of the ice cap, each pulling sleds with 410 pounds of supplies, enough to keep them alive for 85 days. The untold story of the boldest polar expedition of modern times 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z The alarm about climate change from global warming has been sounded for years as scientists document the melting of the polar ice caps, which has far-reaching implications for weather patterns, economics and health. Editorial Roundup: New England 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z “We must draw a line in the ice cap.” Greenland wary of US plans for aid projects in its territory 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z We must draw a line in the ice cap.” Greenland ready to take US aid but won’t accept conditions 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z Louisiana is disappearing into the Gulf of Mexico, the ice caps are melting, the coral reefs are dying, the rain forests are burning and species are going extinct. We're worse off this Earth Day than any before. Watch these 7 TV shows to feel hopeful 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z In the East Siberian Sea, they steered the Pangaea into an embayment in the ice cap that Ousland, who closely studies satellite images of the Arctic, had observed growing for years. The untold story of the boldest polar expedition of modern times 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z The design – inspired by concerns over the melting polar ice caps – is an arctic landscape. DIY fashion: designers' tips on what to make from home 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z The past decade was the warmest ever, and polar ice caps are melting six times faster than in the 1990s. Vodka From Thin Air: An Unusual Climate Prize Hits a Coronavirus Snag 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z The album’s cover captures a Norwegian ice cap gushing and the title “Gigaton” is often used to measure human carbon dioxide emissions. Review: Pearl Jam come roaring back with superb new album 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z Shepherd said it took about 30 years for the ice caps to react. Polar ice caps melting six times faster than in 1990s 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Horn promptly invited him on his next adventure: a traverse of the Arctic ice cap on skis. The untold story of the boldest polar expedition of modern times 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z We spent 54 days living on the ice cap, self-supporting, slowly climbing this 2,200ft pinnacle. Free Solo star Alex Honnold falls off a mountain: Keith Ladzinski's best photo 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z The melting of the Arctic ice cap and the accelerated exploitation of Arctic resources are lending this area ever greater strategic significance. World War III’s newest battlefield 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z “As more of this sort of thing happens, the more carbon is released into the atmosphere, you know, the more ice caps melt, the whole thing is just ramping up. It’s accelerating the problem.” Deadly fires turn Australians into climate change converts, similar to California 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z The polar ice caps are melting six times faster than in the 1990s, according to the most complete analysis to date. Polar ice caps melting six times faster than in 1990s 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Even if there were other explorers in this world willing to try, it’s unlikely to ever be repeated, due to the Arctic’s shrinking ice cap. The untold story of the boldest polar expedition of modern times 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z Flasks are shipped to the lab from 16 sites around the world, including the South Pole, the top of Greenland’s ice cap and the tip of Tasmania in Australia. The chemists policing Earth’s atmosphere for rogue pollution 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z Like the polar ice cap or baseball’s status as the national pastime, it had acquired an appearance of permanence. Freedom without constraints: how the US squandered its cold war victory 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Scientists monitoring the ice cap's progress say it's moved beyond a simple glacial surge. A Russian Ice Cap Is Collapsing--It Could Be a Warning 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z She said she also saw increased losses from Iceland’s ice caps last year. Polar ice caps melting six times faster than in 1990s 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Ousland led the way to the edge of the Arctic ice cap. The untold story of the boldest polar expedition of modern times 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z “In the satellite images, it seems like the entire west wing of the ice cap is just dumping into the sea,” Zheng said. New ‘ice river’ detected at Arctic glacier adds to rising seas, scientists say 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Even when you get everything you want from music — insane streaming figures, “Saturday Night Live” and sold-out arenas — it’s all for naught if the ice caps melt. Billie Eilish isn't stressing over the Grammys. She's busy worrying about the end of the world 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z It's still too early to tell whether the stream will slow down again — or, in a worst case scenario, eventually drain the ice cap from the face of the island. A Russian Ice Cap Is Collapsing--It Could Be a Warning 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z The best, most comprehensive data set available, based on spikes in global temperatures, massive insect die-off and melting ice caps, warns that the stakes associated with climate change are higher than ever. How Do We Know What We Know? 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z Andrew Shepherd, an Earth observation scientist at the University of Leeds, UK, leads a publishing consortium of 96 researchers who estimate sea-ice loss from polar ice caps. How to manage a multi-author megapaper 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z The Vavilov ice cap is located on the northern edge of Siberia. New ‘ice river’ detected at Arctic glacier adds to rising seas, scientists say 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z The programme saw these creatures and others deal with such climate change-related phenomena as rising sea levels, melting ice caps and unusual weather events. Seven Worlds, One Planet gets five-star reviews 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z “We read on the news about the Arctic ice caps melting and impacts on polar bears,” said Durham’s Town Administrator Todd Selig. Artist uses ‘historic’ markers to raise climate awareness 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z Although it is easy to picture the Arctic ice cap as vast and impenetrable, it is actually a loosely knit collage of thin and small floes that constantly jostle about. Ship Freezes Itself in Arctic Ice to Study Climate Change 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Fisher said that Lidar works well over land and the ice caps. 'Ultimate gift to future generations': plan to laser map all land on Earth 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Hayes would soon start scaling mountains like Rainier in Washington state and building endurance by pulling heavy sleds on polar ice caps. 'We are in an epidemic': Adrian Hayes on how social media magnifiies climbing's danger 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z With fossil fuel development growing worldwide, the oil and gas industry faces growing criticism from activists concerned about accelerating climate impacts from melting ice caps to sea-level rise and extreme weather. Oil CEOs push carbon-capture efforts ahead of climate talks 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Even if huge cuts in emissions begin immediately, between 29cm and 59cm of sea level rise is already inevitable because the ice caps and glaciers melt slowly. Extreme sea level events ‘will hit once a year by 2050’ 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z “I can’t welcome the destructive burning of the Amazon, the melting of the ice caps or the devastating impacts already affecting many people around the globe,” he says. Daily briefing: Neutron star is a whisper away from being a black hole 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z I can’t welcome the destructive burning of the Amazon, the melting of the ice caps or the devastating impacts already affecting many people around the globe. Why I welcome a climate emergency 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z In West Africa, where a third of the population lives along the coast, rising sea levels linked to the melting of the polar ice caps are conspiring with coastal erosion to slowly submerge communities. Ivory Coast town sinking underwater as coastal erosion advances 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z But the polar ice caps and the Amazon rainforests aren’t the only things at risk. A free online course reveals the scary reality and health dangers of climate change. But it also gets you involved in solutions. 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z The stark assessment of the climate crisis in the world’s oceans and ice caps concludes that many serious impacts are already inevitable, from more intense storms to melting permafrost and dwindling marine life. Extreme sea level events ‘will hit once a year by 2050’ 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Apparently, our inability to empathize with others’ experiences just a few decades hence contributes to melting ice caps and the burning Amazon. Opinion | To fight climate change, appeal to logic, not emotion 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Ecoterrorism loses the aura of absurdity when every month brings a new estimate of the coming death toll from our melting ice caps. Nell Zink’s Satire Raises the Stakes 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z Russia also hopes that as the polar ice cap retreats, a shipping lane north of Russia will develop as an alternative route for goods from Asia to Europe. Factbox: Greenland for sale? Why Trump's bid fell through 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z More than 80% of the island is covered by an ice cap which is feared to be melting due to global warming. Trump cancels Denmark visit over Greenland sale spat 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z More than 80 percent of the island is covered by an ice cap. Greenland says it’s 'open for business, not for sale' after Trump purchase report 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z More than 80% of the island is covered by an ice cap. Could Donald Trump actually buy Greenland? 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z The daily hunt for a parking spot, the inevitability of traffic, the knowledge that for every gallon of gas I pump another chunk of the polar ice cap slides into the ocean. RadWagon electric cargo bike review: the SUV of e-bikes 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Torrents of meltwater pour from the Greenland ice cap, sweltering under a 15C temperature anomaly. How the world’s dirtiest industries have learned to pollute our politics | George Monbiot 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z In the course of six episodes, “Years and Years” keeps leaping forward, forcing us into the future, as the economy crumbles, the ice caps melt, authoritarianism rises, and teen-agers implant phones into their hands. “Years and Years” Forces Us Into the Future 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z He said he wanted to stop melting ice caps seeming hypothetical, and to “give feelings to things that are otherwise unemotional”. BP backlash and Extinction Gongs: can climate art save the world? 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z They were inspired by observations of dark spots in the carbon-dioxide ice caps at the Martian poles, Wordsworth said. Silica Blankets Could Make Mars Habitable 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z But for a few exceptional species, thawing ice caps and permafrost are starting to reveal another narrative — one of astonishing biological resilience. Ancient life awakens amid thawing ice caps and permafrost 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z “The greenhouse gas gets trapped in our atmosphere and it’s melting ice caps,” explained Jewel Horn, who said she’d learned about the topic previously in science class. Teaching global warming in a charged political climate 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z My goodness, what’s happening to the ozone and the ice caps? How Years and Years creator Russell T. Davies sees the future unfolding 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z Unlike global warming, melting ice caps or the extinction of animals in jungles far away, de Fuego carried none of the far-off nature of other environmental threats. Bradenton family rises from the ashes 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z “Performing music is worth melting the ice caps,” he says, with a chuckle that clicks like a latch closing. Bill Callahan: 'I can't die – life is too good, it can't end' 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z “That likely makes it the third largest water reservoir on Mars after the polar ice caps.” Major Martian ice discovery thrills scientists 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z At this rate of warming there will be some awesome shipping lanes where a polar ice cap used to be, giving a big boost to global trade. Editorials from around New England 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z Scientists now use them to measure how quickly the glaciers and the ice caps are thawing. Glimpsing a world beyond human extinction 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z It’s easier to look up baseball stats than read an article on melting ice caps. The way Americans regard sports heroes versus intellectuals speaks volumes 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z The presence of plants showed the Antarctic ice cap was much smaller in the Pliocene and the sea level much higher. Last time CO2 levels were this high, there were trees at the South Pole 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z ‘It hasn’t even happened yet, let’s wait for the ice caps to melt and then we’ll – what, do something? No, then it will be too soon to talk about it.’ Jimmy Kimmel on Trump: 'The most narcissistic personality of the year' 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Melting polar ice caps would lead to dramatically higher sea levels, flooding coastal areas. Think we should be at school? Today’s climate strike is the biggest lesson of all | Greta Thunberg and others 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Burroughs crater near Mars' south polar ice cap. Mars lander pictured from orbit 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z The sea is rising because ice caps are melting as the world grows warmer. In Annapolis, the tide has come in and out 540,000 times, but now it’s worrisome 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z In one bizarre moment congressman Louie Gohmert, a Republican from Texas, asked Curry if humans are also causing the polar ice caps on Mars to melt, adding “that’s probably the sun”. House Democrats hold hearings to increase pressure on climate change 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z Millennials are the generation of crushing student loan debt, of melting polar ice caps, of oppressive work cultures and stagnant salaries. Which planner will make your 2019 perfectly organized? | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z The impact is also notable because it occurred in Mars’ seasonal southern ice cap, according to Beyer. Mars blast! Stunning new impact crater spotted on the Red Planet 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z “What I noticed about the Arctic, is that the polar ice caps were melting in October,” she said. 'It's something very precious': painting oceans to showcase climate change 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z “The polar ice cap we’re seeing melting in higher education is right in front of us,” said Mitchell, president of the largest national association of colleges and universities, the American Council on Education. Higher education moon shot remains stuck in lower orbit 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z In fact, most of the sea level rise observed to date is because of this warming effect, not melting ice caps. Ocean Warming Is Accelerating Faster Than Thought, New Research Finds 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z But in July, a team of scientists reported the discovery of a 20km-wide lake sitting under the planet's south polar ice cap. Ten big science stories of 2018 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z After apparently punching through the ice cap, the impact created the two-toned blast pattern, he explained. Mars blast! Stunning new impact crater spotted on the Red Planet 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z This was typical of Sunrise members, who tend not to talk about starving polar bears, melting ice caps, or ocean acidification. The Optimistic Activists for a Green New Deal: Inside the Youth-Led Singing Sunrise Movement 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z Santa, you see, takes the polar ice caps seriously. If You Ever Saw this House, You Would Even Say It Glows 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Absent global action to reduce carbon emissions, the authors said, the warming alone would cause sea levels to rise by about a foot by 2100, and the ice caps would contribute more. Ocean Warming Is Accelerating Faster Than Thought, New Research Finds 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Nadkarni identifies the montane cloud forest as one of the world’s three most sensitive along with the threatened coral reefs and ice caps. Head in the clouds: the woman scaling fresh climate change heights 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z The planet keeps giving us warning signs--fires, droughts, heat waves, floods, storms, melting ice caps, rising seas, vanishing species--and yet we continue blithely skipping down “a path to self-destruction.” Dark Days 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z The third type of previously permanent Arctic ice is the frozen water on land, including glaciers and Greenland’s enormous ice cap, which is more than a mile thick. The Arctic Is Breaking Climate Records, Altering Weather Worldwide 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z A shade of brilliant white that evokes the glint of sunlight off the polar ice caps, this color won’t be around forever. Global-Warming White, Offred Red and other 2019 Pantone Color of the Year picks that never were 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z Avoiding that threshold — already considered challenging — is viewed as a way to stave off some of the worst effects of climate change, like melting polar ice caps and rising sea levels. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accelerate Like a ‘Speeding Freight Train’ in 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z Currently, the world is on pace for around 3 degrees Celsius of warming or more, bringing far higher risks of deadly heat waves, floods, the collapse of polar ice caps and other potential calamities. COP24, the New Round of Global Climate Talks, Has Begun. We Answer Three Key Questions. 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z The ice caps continue to melt and the sea level rises. General Motors’ cuts are proof of Trump’s working class double cross 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z Woods and Mickelson’s relationship was more polar ice cap than frosty for so long, which rendered the sudden chumminess between them as, at face value, extraordinary. Woods v Mickelson: The Match is merely a vulgar $9m marketing exercise | Ewan Murray 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z She’s been conducting experiments in secret to regenerate the Arctic ice cap in a desperate bid to enclose the remaining methane gas trapped in the permafrost. Welcome to the ultimate escape room 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z The melting of ice caps and glaciers and the rising levels of our oceans and seas, initially predicted for the end of the century, have occurred decades early. How Extreme Weather Is Shrinking the Planet 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z These were the new conditions, like dribbling ice caps, or jagged rips in the atmosphere. “Show Recent Some Love” 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z “As soon as they get south of the continental ice caps, they’re exploding and occupying the land,” he says. Ancient genomics is recasting the story of the Americas’ first residents 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z One of the biggest hubs of real-time climate research is a lab hundreds of miles from the rising seas and melting ice caps. What does climate change really cost society? This lab is trying to find out 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z The Earth’s ice caps act as reflectors, sending some of the sun’s rays back into space and cooling the planet. 'Tipping points' could exacerbate climate crisis, scientists fear 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z The comparison showed that the ice cap, in addition to contracting, was thinning; during the previous decade, its thickness had declined by fifteen per cent. How to Write About a Vanishing World 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Donald Trump, Brexit, growing inequality, melting ice caps, stagnant wages, trade wars, actual wars, immigrants left to die in the sea, all while fascists and their sympathisers sit in government. It comes as no shock that the powerful hate ‘identity politics’ | Gary Younge 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z The 53-year-old waved a Newport cigarette as she talked about how melting ice caps are affecting the weather. Florence's Floods Reveal Exposure of Rural Areas to Climate Change 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z Or the big one, which is the fact that our sea levels are rising, we’re having more extreme storms, and our ice caps are melting. Get a grip on the natural world with this beautiful manual for the planet 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z The signs point to some of the projected consequences of climate change, including rising sea levels, melting ice caps and the health hazards of humans’ dependence on fossil fuels. Signs of climate change pop up in New York — really 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Perhaps, he theorized, the ice cap was shrinking due to a natural cycle that would eventually reverse. How to Write About a Vanishing World 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Dust moves around on Mars, and there are strong seasonal changes in atmospheric pressure as the carbon dioxide ice caps sublimate and freeze. Mars and the Waves of Darkening 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z Svalbard is a wilderness of glaciers and ice caps in the Arctic Circle, between Norway and the North Pole. Polar bear killed in tourist encounter 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z For the first time, scientists have found a large, watery lake beneath an ice cap on Mars. A Watery Lake Is Detected on Mars, Raising the Potential for Alien Life 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z The proposed "lake" sits beneath the Red Planet's south polar ice cap, and is about 20km across. Liquid water 'lake' revealed on Mars 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z This involved flying over the ice cap in a sort of aeronautical jalopy—a Second World War-era DC-4 with the cockpit bubble of a Sabre fighter jet welded to the fuselage. How to Write About a Vanishing World 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z While scanning the ice cap at Mars’ south pole, the probe’s radar instrument, called MARSIS, detected a feature about a mile underneath the surface that was about 12.4 miles wide. Scientists detect giant underground aquifer on Mars, raising hope of life on the planet 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z Humans are consuming and polluting resources – aquifers and ice caps, fertile soil, forests, fisheries and oceans – accumulated over geological time, tens of thousands of years or longer. 7.5 billion and counting: How many humans can the Earth support? 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z “In terms of glaciers that terminate on land, we’ve lost three small ice caps.” Canada's high Arctic glaciers at risk of disappearing completely, study finds 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z The Red Planet’s polar ice caps, for example, grow in the winter and shrink in the summer. Never Mind the Summer Heat: Earth Is at Its Greatest Distance From the Sun 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z The ice cap’s size varied, expanding in winter, when the polar darkness descended, and then contracting in summer. How to Write About a Vanishing World 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z But for the poor, largely indigenous farmers in the verdant mountains around the ice caps, the problem is not too much water but too little. Climate change has turned Peru's glacial lake into a deadly flood timebomb 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z “Alaska is the absolute center of the defense of our country for the Indo-Pacific region and certainly over the polar ice cap,” Mr. Mattis said. Missile defense for North Korea still ready 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z The nearly five-hour hearing covered topics including the history of climate change research, carbon dioxide’s role as a greenhouse gas, melting ice caps, rising sea levels and extreme weather. Climate change lawsuit against oil companies Chevron, Exxon Mobil, ConocoPhillips, BP, Shell tossed 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z But because the southern winter is far more extreme than the northern winter, the southern polar ice caps grow more than twice as far as their northern counterparts. Never Mind the Summer Heat: Earth Is at Its Greatest Distance From the Sun 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Subsequent research published in Nature magazine on the history of Greenland’s ice cap demonstrated this to be impossible. Thirty Years On, How Well Do Global Warming Predictions Stand Up? 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z “The problem with climate change is that it’s a timed test. The physics of the planet aren’t in a holding pattern. You lose a few years and there goes an ice cap.” Paris deal: a year after Trump announced US exit, a coalition fights to fill the gap 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z And many experts believe that this summer, the Arctic ice cap will shrink to record lows. Here’s what vanishing sea ice in the Arctic means for you 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z They will monitor the polar ice caps, aquifer storage around the country and other key data related to climate change. Key Climate Satellite to Launch Later This Month 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z Other new research this week showed that Greenland’s massive ice cap is melting at the fastest rate for at least 450 years. Avoid Gulf stream disruption at all costs, scientists warn 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z China is also keen to tap into the Arctic resources that will become easier to exploit as the ice cap retreats. China wants to be a polar power 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z "It's an amazing finding, and one that I really wasn't expecting from the geophysical survey of this small ice cap," commented Prof Martin Siegert from Imperial College London, who was not involved in the study. Europa-like lakes found in Canada 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z At least two large, supersalty lakes lie deep beneath an ice cap in far northeastern Canada, a new radar survey shows. Canadian ice cap conceals supersalty lakes 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Because of GRACE, scientists now understand that the melting of the polar ice caps accounts for more than a third of sea-level rise globally, he said. Key Climate Satellite to Launch Later This Month 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z This is causing polar ice caps to melt and, for all intents and purposes, opening a new ocean. Analysis | The Daily 202: How a conservative think tank is trying to tackle climate change 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z Globally, mean sea level is rising by just over 3 millimetres a year, as glaciers and ice caps melt and warming ocean water expands. Attack of the extreme floods 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z That year, the late Mercer, a glaciologist at Ohio State University in Columbus, first warned about the potential for rapid sea-level rise from melting ice caps. The scientist who predicted ice-sheet collapse — 50 years ago 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z The ice caps were going to melt, they were going to be gone by now, but now they’re setting records, O.K., they’re at a record level. Trump Says Climate Is Both ‘Cooling’ and ‘Heating.’ He’s Only Half Right. 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z “The ice caps were going to melt, they were going to be gone by now. But now they’re setting records. They’re at a record level,” he said. Trump's view that ice caps 'setting records' baffles scientists 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z “The ice caps were going to melt, they were going to be gone by now, but now they’re setting records,” he said. Donald Trump says he might sign back up to a revamped Paris accord 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z It promises to help combat environmental degradation, balancing that with the economic opportunities presented by a melting polar ice cap that is making the Arctic more attractive for navigation and investment. A New Cold War? China Declares Itself a ‘Near-Arctic State’ 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z After you land the submersible on the planet’s surface you want to melt through the ice cap, which takes a year. How NASA's Search for ET Relies on Advanced AI 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z As for the ice caps, Arctic sea ice is indeed setting records — but for loss, not gain. Trump Says Climate Is Both ‘Cooling’ and ‘Heating.’ He’s Only Half Right. 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z “Glaciers and ice caps are globally continuing to melt at extreme rate,” said Michael Zemp, director of the World Glacier Monitoring Service which tracks hundreds of glaciers. Trump's view that ice caps 'setting records' baffles scientists 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z I thought about how this same image would evoke a completely different response today, in the era of melting ice caps and global warming. My best winter photograph 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z By year’s end, his science advisory board had delivered a detailed report on the “invisible pollutant” capable of melting ice caps and raising sea levels. Venue of last resort: the climate lawsuits threatening the future of big oil 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z Also, it is fed by only one ice cap and its bottom sediments have not been scoured clean by a glacier, so it has a clear historical signal. Scientists Brave Arctic Perils for Climate Science 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z As temperatures rise, Greenland’s magnificent ice caps are melting at a quickening pace while rising sea levels and increasing storm surges are eroding the picture-perfect beaches of the Maldives. Game of Thrones Star Sounds the Alarm on Climate Change 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z Trump’s implication that glaciers and ice caps are growing “is simply wrong. Or maybe he is referring to a different planet,” Zemp said. Trump's view that ice caps 'setting records' baffles scientists 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z Jefferson County, Texas, is among the low-lying coastal areas that could lose the most as the ice caps melt and the seas warm and rise. In Harvey-hit county, some in GOP newly confront the climate 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z “The ice cap is smaller, it's not the same as Antarctica, but there are some katabatic winds there,” Berne said of Greenland. Vanishing Antarctic Snowflakes May Alter Sea Level Rise 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z Ahlmannfonna glacier is important because it is a small ice cap and stands alone, so it is especially prey to changes in climate. Scientists Brave Arctic Perils for Climate Science 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z Both types of oak spread first to California as polar ice caps expanded, and some of both kinds wound up east of the Rockies and headed to the East Coast and eventually to Mexico. One of the world’s most popular trees arose near the Arctic Circle 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z “The ice caps were going to melt, they were going to be gone by now. But now they’re setting records. They’re at a record level,” he said. Trump's view that ice caps 'setting records' baffles scientists 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z The Arctic ice cap melted to hundreds of thousands of square miles below average this summer, according to data released late on Tuesday. Melting Arctic ice cap falls to well below average 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z A good illustration of the satellite’s promise had to do with the problem of measuring variation in the world’s great ice caps. What Could We Lose if a NASA Mission Goes Dark? 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Climate scientists said there is no doubt about the reality of climate change and its consequences, including melting polar ice caps, rising sea levels and the intensification of storms. A two-decade crusade by conservative charities fueled Trump’s exit from Paris climate accord 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z The planet is getting warmer, ocean temperatures are rising, the polar ice caps are melting, and all of the incontrovertible science of climate change is that more extreme-weather events are an inevitable consequence. Opinion | Harvey should be the turning point in fighting climate change 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z “Glaciers and ice caps are globally continuing to melt at extreme rate,” said Michael Zemp, director of the World Glacier Monitoring Service which tracks hundreds of glaciers. Trump's view that ice caps 'setting records' baffles scientists 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, because of melting polar ice caps and thermal expansion, the sea level is rising. Louisiana fights the sea, and loses 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z For most of the 20th century, one of the essential questions bedeviling glaciologists was how sea levels and coastlines could be affected by the fluctuations in the size of these ice caps. What Could We Lose if a NASA Mission Goes Dark? 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Unlike the delicate virga in the north, it not only reaches the ground, but also contributes significantly to the planet’s seasonal carbon dioxide ice caps, says Paul Hayne of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Snow Falls on Mars in the Summer 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z Snow is nothing new for the Red Planet — there are ice caps at its poles. Martian weather kicks into high gear at night 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z Trump’s implication that glaciers and ice caps are growing “is simply wrong. Or maybe he is referring to a different planet,” Zemp said. Trump's view that ice caps 'setting records' baffles scientists 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z The country is especially vulnerable because it is home to 70 percent of the world’s “tropical glaciers” — small, high-altitude ice caps found at Earth’s middle latitudes. As Peru’s glaciers melt, its problems are only beginning 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z It is a mysterious but also abundant creature, most common in the Arctic Sea, even under the ice cap of the North Pole. The Strange Quest to Catch a Massive Greenland Shark 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z From the surface, the vast ice caps that envelop the Greenland town of Tasiilaq are still and silent, offering no visible sign of life, which might be expected in a -2° Fahrenheit environment. A Thriving Ecosystem Is Hiding Underneath Greenland’s Ice Caps 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Think melting polar ice caps, rising sea levels and extensive flooding, killer heat waves, bleached coral reefs, food shortages, and deadly diseases. These six milestones can help ward off the climate apocalypse 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z With global warming causing rapid melting of the ice cap, plastic is being released and making the problem even worse. Plastic polluted Arctic islands are dumping ground for Gulf stream 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z It was a time of global warmth with tiny or nonexistent polar ice caps. University of Texas at San Antonio educator reviews rocks 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z Climate change is causing the seas to rise by around 3.5mm a year, as the ice caps melt and oceans warm and expand. Rare US floods to become the norm if emissions aren't cut, study warns 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z “Melting glaciers and ice caps in Patagonia and the other southern places don’t contribute as much as those in the Arctic,” he says. How Is Worldwide Sea Level Rise Driven by Melting Arctic Ice? 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z The island's melting ice caps account for a third of global sea-level rise. In Case You Missed It 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z It’s a host of other changes — from the arrival of mosquitoes to increasing landslide and flood dangers from the melting of the Qaanaaq ice cap, which sits on the bluff above the village. In Greenland’s northernmost village, a melting Arctic threatens the age-old hunt 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z “Some of these ice caps are disappearing,” he said, “and we’re going to lose this record, in some cases sooner rather than later.” An Ice Scientist’s Worst Nightmare 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z We are dumping plastics in the oceans, draining wetlands, melting ice caps and destroying forests. Saved: the endangered species back from the brink of extinction 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z After reaching a near steady state 2,000 years ago, the ice cap began shrinking in the late 1800s, with a marked increase in its decline since the 1990s. Climate change is on pace to kill an ice age remnant 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Rising ocean temperatures are melting Greenland's ice caps at three times what the rate was before 1997, according to a recent data analysis of meltwater runoff and ice-cap mass. In Case You Missed It 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z Such waves are common at the edge of the martian ice caps, but thought to be less frequent over its equator. Mars rover spots clouds shaped by gravity waves 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z The Arctic ice cap fell to its second lowest summer extent on record in September 2016, just ahead of the lowest ever mark set in 2012. Arctic ice falls to record winter low after polar 'heatwaves' 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z A discussion of the polar ice caps ended in tears. I live in fear that my daughter will inherit my depression 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z “It all goes back to the polar ice caps, Al Gore’s movie in 2005. What happens there happens here.” How Oroville went from drought to an overflowing dam in just two years 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z The Arctic ice cap reaches its maximum extent every March and then, over the next six months, dwindles. Could a £400bn plan to refreeze the Arctic before the ice melts really work? 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z Kia’s Super Bowl ad features Melissa McCarthy as an environmental activist called to save everything from the whales and trees to the polar ice caps. Watch some of the Super Bowl ads raising eyebrows ahead of Sunday's game 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z The ice cap grows during the winter months and usually reaches its maximum in early March. Arctic ice falls to record winter low after polar 'heatwaves' 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z But demanding and exacting is probably what you want when you’re stuffing a nuclear reactor inside a long metal tube, then sending it and more than a hundred men under the Arctic ice cap. How do you tell Adm. Rickover that you messed up his new office? 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z Amid all its grim revelations of melting ice caps and depleted permafrost, the Oscar-winning documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” provided at least one genuinely thrilling revelation: Al Gore was a movie star. Sundance: 'An Inconvenient Sequel' marks a welcome return to the spotlight for Al Gore 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z I was on the ice cap for about a week last summer, and I flew whenever the weather permitted. ‘What should be pristine white is littered with blue’ – Timo Lieber’s Arctic photography 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z They have tried to connect the global problem of climate change to normal life, because it’s not always about the melting polar ice caps or apocalyptic drought. Climate Change News That Stuck With Us in 2016 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z Yet, in a world of vanishing species, melting ice caps and uncontrolled population explosion, Churchill’s hour-long play tapped into our hidden fears. Beyoncé to Black Mirror; the culture that defines 2016 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z The Arctic ice cap is 20C above its normal winter temperatures, a heating that scientists are calling “literally off the charts”, and may soon result in more rapid melting than anything yet seen. Eight charts that show 2016 wasn't as bad as you think 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z The vast ice cap that regulates the Earth’s temperature had in 2011 retreated further and faster than anyone could have imagined just 20 years before. Teargas, trees and oil: my life in the greatest job on earth | John Vidal 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z A river runs through the Greenland ice cap. ‘What should be pristine white is littered with blue’ – Timo Lieber’s Arctic photography 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Two friendly world leaders facing one an other across a vanishing Arctic ice cap. The Guardian view on climate change action: don’t delay | Editorial 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z Computer modeling by the researchers indicates an ice cap formed at that location early in Pluto’s history. Icy basin in Pluto's heart may be natural sinkhole 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z There are references to "the former Arctic ice caps" and "the most beautiful beaches right outside of Reykjavik." Syfy's cliched but watchable 'Incorporated' envisions a disturbingly familiar future 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z The results, published this month in the journal Polar Geography, underscore the dramatic shrinkage of the summer ice cap and shed new light on the timing of the transformation. How Capt. James Cook’s intricate 1778 records reveal global warming today in Arctic 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z "The ice caps don't negotiate, and neither do rising seas. Donald Trump's moral failure to acknowledge the climate crisis might very well mean planetary disaster if he is elected." 'Trump threat' to dominate UN climate negotiations - BBC News 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z The State Department said Friday that Kerry would travel to McMurdo Antarctic research station on Ross Island to draw attention to the decline in polar ice caps and its impact on sea levels. Climate warrior Kerry to visit Antarctica next week 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z His very first strip foretold how the greenhouse effect would someday melt polar ice caps. Minnesota Sea Grant celebrates 50th year of water research 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Now, researchers are recognizing how that enormous ice cap drives much of Pluto’s activity, from its frosty surface to its hazy atmosphere. Icy heart could be key to Pluto’s strange geology 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Panic over melting ice caps and rising sea levels. Black Lives Matter tactics prompt questions about true aims of social justice movement 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z “When you’re crossing an ice cap, there's no other place to be,’’ he says. A Glacial Pace: Tackling 20 Glaciers and Icefields Within the Next Decade But the phenomenon is clearly visible in melting glaciers and ice caps, the opening of ice-free sea lanes through the Arctic and, most urgently, sea-level rise. A vote for Trump is a vote for climate catastrophe 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z New Horizons flew past Pluto last summer, and the pictures from that mission provided scientists’ with their first glimpse of Charon’s reddish-brown polar ice cap. Why Pluto’s Moon Charon Wears a Red Cap 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z It was a polar ice cap, melting down his shirt. With a final toss of the hat, a famed Washington costume party calls it a day 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z In these high mountains, glaciers are fed by the ice caps. These Photos Show How Hard Climate Change Has Hit Greenland 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z “If bison could move north and south through the interior ice-free corridor, why should they not also have been able to do so before the ice caps completely blocked the way?” he said. How Did People Migrate to the Americas? Bison DNA Helps Chart the Way 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z This month's batch contains more than 1,000 photos of Mars' dunes, craters, mountains, ice caps, and other surface features. NASA just dumped a trove of photos of Mars' dunes, craters, and mountains 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Because the caldera collapse happened under the Vatnajokull ice cap, which is about 1,500 feet thick on average, Dr. Gudmundsson and his colleagues had to study it indirectly using seismometers, radar and other instruments. An Icelandic Volcano Reveals Secrets of Its Eruption 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z The milder climate means summers are intensely green throughout Iceland, even though 11 percent of that country is still covered with permanent ice cap. Is Iceland Really Green and Greenland Really Icy? “Listening to Tom Waits and crossing an ice cap—there is nothing better for me,” Colliard says. Watch These Videos of Exploration Jobs You Wish You Had 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z They analyzed the radar images of the ice deposits within the planet’s polar ice caps, looking out for signs of erosion and other features, like so-called spiral troughs that are created by the wind. Mars is emerging from an ice age that ended about 400,000 years ago 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z The application included environmental impact statement declaring that erosion along the coast will only accelerate with sea-level rise associated with melting ice caps and climate change. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton escalate attacks – campaign live 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z If the use of fossil fuel continues, scientists warn that warming will melt the ice caps, "which will expose bare ground, increase heat absorption at high latitudes, and cause more warming." Crocodiles and Palm Trees in the Arctic? New Report Suggests Yes. 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Its back catalogue showing the ever shifting character of our near neighbour - the Red Planet's wispy clouds, its globe-encircling dust storms, and its evolving ice caps. Hubble takes super-snap of Mars - BBC News 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z The New Deal society is slowly disappearing, melting away like the polar ice caps. The sharing economy will screw us all — and it’s retirement we have to be really worried about 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z As I listened to Anohni’s songs about melting ice caps, the death penalty, and Guantánamo, I kept thinking that the daunting scale of their ambition verged on the ridiculous. A New Kind of Protest Song 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z The application included environmental impact statement declaring that erosion along the coast will only accelerate with sea-level rise associated with melting ice caps and climate change. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton escalate attacks – campaign live 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z "In the future, warming will melt ice caps, which will expose bare ground, increase heat absorption at high latitudes, and cause more warming," Wing says. Crocodiles and Palm Trees in the Arctic? New Report Suggests Yes. 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Measuring how the polar ice caps change over time is crucial to understanding the effects of our warming climate — but doing so is no easy task. New modifiable drone can help researchers scan the changing Antarctic ice shelf 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z "It's not just about polar bears and melting ice caps. It's about our families. It's about our future," she said at a White House event to mark the report's release, according to the AP. Health Highlights: April 6, 2016 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z His speech came on the heels of a number of alarming studies, including one recent paper arguing that melting of the Antarctic ice cap could lead to as much as 3 ft. John Kerry Urges Business to Act on Climate Change 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z “It’s not just about polar bears and melting ice caps. It’s about our families. It’s about our future,” McCarthy said at a White House event unveiling the report. Fever: Federal report says global warming making US sick 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z "It's not just about polar bears and melting ice caps. It's about our families. It's about our future," McCarthy said at a White House event unveiling the report. The federal government lists all sorts of way man-made global warming is making America sicker 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Meltwater gushes from an ice cap on the island of Nordaustlandet, in Norway's Svalbard archipelago. Why the New Sea Level Alarm Can't Be Ignored 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z The winter months of utter darkness and extreme cold are typically the time of maximum growth in the ice cap, until it begins its seasonal decline in spring. Arctic sea ice extent breaks record low for winter 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z A research ship will spend an entire year adrift with the ice floes of the Arctic to better understand the disappearance of the polar ice cap. Arctic research vessel to spend entire year studying sea ice decline 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z “You just drop right down onto the ice cap,” he said. A New Generation of Airships Is Born 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Cruz mentioned a ship that got stuck in ice around Antarctica, arguing that the polar ice caps are not melting. Republicans reject climate change fears despite rebukes from scientists 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Stuck with the climate they were born with – at least until the polar ice caps melt – they realized that their first step toward competing with the soccer elite was to improve the sport’s infrastructure. Volcano! The incredible rise of Iceland's national football team 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z THE FACTS: Kerry was talking about the ice cap at the North Pole, and it's true that it hasn't melted as he predicted. AP FACT CHECK: Cruz is at odds with climate change science and its central conclusion that Earth is warming because of human activity 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z The rapid melting of the polar ice caps has injected new urgency into scientists’ efforts to understand the climate systems operating in the Arctic. Arctic research vessel to spend entire year studying sea ice decline 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z And yet one immediate, effective way to fight climate change and save polar ice caps is half a world away, in the tropics. The solution for the melting polar ice caps may be hiding in the rainforest | Jessica Lee 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z But, the statement continued, “most scientists question the predictions of a dangerous melting of Greenland or Antarctic ice caps.” Big Oil braced for global warming while it fought regulations 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z It was a moment when real-life cinematic images of dissolving ice caps and rising sea levels took precedence over the Darwinian designs of global politics. The films of 2015 that defined the times in the minds of audiences 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z Ford received proposals for irrigating the Sahara, for planting a three-mile-wide strip of flowers along the U.S.-Canadian border, and for forcibly melting the ice cap at the South Pole. The Ford Foundation’s Quest to Fix the World 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z Just as global warming is melting the ice caps, so my postal glacier is receding. If you sent me a letter in the last five years, I’m sorry I didn’t answer it 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z Most scientists say failure to agree on strong measures in Paris would doom the world to ever-hotter average temperatures, deadlier storms, more frequent droughts and rising sea levels as polar ice caps melt. With climate at 'breaking point', leaders urge breakthrough in Paris 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z Another intriguing proposal for the geosequestration of CO2 concerns the potential capture and storage of the gas in the Antarctic ice cap. Climate crisis: seaweed, coffee and cement could save the planet 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z I don’t think people like me can add anything to science through our journeys—everyone knows the polar ice caps are melting. This Man is Walking Across Antarctica All By Himself 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Unless you’re standing on a polar ice cap, you are very close to a bunch of ants right now. The Verge Review of Animals: ants 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z There are a lot of environmental changes occurring as the planet warms: melting ice caps, rising sea levels, heat waves, you name it. Global Warming Helps Giant Arctic Mosquitos Thrive 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Researchers said it did not indicate a wider recovery of the ice cap, but suggested that if global warming was tackled the potential for long-term recovery was more likely than previously thought. Arctic sea ice shrinks to fourth lowest extent on record 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z There is also the risk of CO2 escape, if the ice cap were to warm. Climate crisis: seaweed, coffee and cement could save the planet 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z How will you feel if you’re out on the Antarctic ice cap, you look out over the horizon and you see someone, and then realize they’re on a converging path with yours? This Man is Walking Across Antarctica All By Himself 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft flew over the red planet’s south pole and returned a picture-perfect view of the Martian ice cap. New Pluto images confirm it as a world of mysteries 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z But global warming is melting the polar ice caps and disrupting this flow,” he continues. Climate scientists fear 'Day After Tomorrow' scenario 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z As a result, the Arctic’s sea ice cap has shrunk by nearly a third since 1979, according to the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre. My Arctic journey shows how a warming climate exposes our most fragile ecosystem – and threatens its very survival 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z The panel warned that forecasting the melting rate of the polar ice caps is nearly impossible. NASA Report Shows Sea Level Has Risen 3 Inches Since 1992 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z To grow the ice caps, Haqq-Misra suggests making marine clouds whiter or mimicking volcanoes by spreading a solar shield of aerosols in the stratosphere. Can Geoengineering Save the World's Ice? 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Kiribati's 100,000 people live on 32 atolls in the central Pacific, most of which are less than six meters above sea level and are suffering coastal erosion as the world's ice caps melt. Pacific island nation calls for moratorium on new coal mines 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z “The scientists tell you many parts of the ice cap are decreasing rapidly, but as a whole they can’t say if it’s increasing or decreasing.” Scientists fly Kansas sky to study ferocious storms 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z Per io9: "we now know what makes up Pluto’s atmosphere, what makes up its ice cap, and exactly how big it is." Physics Week in Review: July 18, 2015 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z Shell has prospected for oil in Alaska’s Arctic since the late 1980s but began its most recent push in 2005, as technology and melting ice caps have made the region more accessible. Shell Places Huge Bet on Arctic Oil Riches 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z "They are hugely important to ecosystems. A lot of attention is given to the ice caps and polar bears but mussels, like bees, need help and a greater awareness to their plight." Scottish Mussel: Pearl poaching inspires new Talulah Riley rom-com - BBC News 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z Newsweek suggested that one solution was “melting the arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot.” Huckabee’s claim that ‘global freezing’ theories from the 1970s shows the science is ‘not as settled’ on climate change 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z With this in mind, the pope calls for urgent reductions in heat-trapping emissions to avoid dangerous impacts such as rising sea levels and melting ice caps. Pope Francis pushes for action to limit climate change 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z Out on the sea, the polar ice cap has been melting so quickly as global temperatures rise that once improbable ideas for commercial activities, including fishing near the North Pole, are quickly becoming realistic. Russia and U.S. Find Common Cause in Arctic Pact 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z The updated data contradict one of the most frequently asserted global warming claims – that global warming is causing the polar ice caps to recede. Updated NASA Data: Polar Ice Not Receding After All 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z A team of four British adventurers have broken the record for the fastest crossing of Greenland's ice cap. British explorer Tom Avery leads record-breaking Greenland crossing - BBC News 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z Sea ice, for example, reflects solar radiation; seawater absorbs it and warming waters hasten the melting of ice caps and glaciers. Editorials from around New England 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z But experts say the pollutants it emits, like methane and black carbon, also contribute to the melting of the polar ice caps as well as local health problems, particularly in developing nations. Landmark Deal Curbs Flaring Pollution 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Producers will travel to ice caps, deep oceans, deserts and remote forests. Planet Earth team head to Netflix for Our Planet series 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z “New satellite maps show polar ice caps melting at ‘unprecedented rate’” Updated NASA Data: Polar Ice Not Receding After All 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z The film’s creators said they plan to use the latest digital camera technology as they travel from the planet’s ice caps to ocean depths to deserts and remote forests. Wilderness, its inhabitants to star in ‘Our Planet’ series 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z The film's creators said they plan to use the latest digital camera technology as they travel from the planet's ice caps to ocean depths to deserts and remote forests. Wilderness, its inhabitants to star in 'Our Planet' series 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z "No matter what deniers may say, sea levels are rising; ice caps are melting; storms, droughts and wildfires are wreaking havoc." Hillary Clinton May Take Strong Stance on Global Warming 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Among the potential mega-problems brought on by climate change, including melting ice caps to the slowdown of the ocean conveyor system, permafrost emissions are unique. The Arctic climate threat that nobody’s even talking about yet 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z Regardless, global warming activists and a compliant news media frequently and vociferously claimed the modest polar ice cap retreat was a sign of impending catastrophe. Updated NASA Data: Polar Ice Not Receding After All 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z The glaciers of the world are beautiful and impressive, sculpting valleys and lakes and making up, along with ice caps and snow, more than two-thirds of the Earth’s freshwater. Photographing the World’s Vanishing Glaciers 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z “Greenland is much more than just melting ice caps,” Olsen said. D.C. winter barely registers with Greenland’s man in Washington 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z What remains today froze in place over the north and south poles to form the ice caps that are visible today. Mars Used To Be A Great Spot For A Beach Vacation 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z “You could see the cracks—it looked like the Arctic ice cap on Earth,” he gushes. The money chase, 2016: New head of key House science spending panel likes limited government, unlimited exploration 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Here are some of the titles of news items I pulled yesterday from the front two pages of a Google Google News search for “polar ice caps”: Updated NASA Data: Polar Ice Not Receding After All 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z Still, researchers say, it’s too early to say definitively if the shrinking of the Austfonna ice cap is due to global warming. An Arctic ice cap’s shockingly rapid slide into the sea 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z What he did not expect to find was a hole twice the size of Central Park in a small ice cap in the northern reaches of Greenland. Surprise Lake Sheds Light on Underbelly of Greenland's Ice 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Evidence is overwhelming that carbon emissions are the biggest single cause of increasing global average temperatures, melting polar ice caps and rising sea levels. “It’s Totally Unacceptable for Society Not to Act” 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z When the ice caps melt and the seas boil and global warming has turned every last ocean reef into a dry and lifeless husk, future humans will wonder: What was the Coral Room? A stripper, Richard Nixon and an anti-submarine weapon. Just another night at the Coral Room. 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z “Climate change is melting more than just the polar ice caps” Updated NASA Data: Polar Ice Not Receding After All 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z They found that the gradual melting of the island’s 1,550-cubic-mile ice cap recently shifted into overdrive, for reasons that aren’t fully understood. An Arctic ice cap’s shockingly rapid slide into the sea 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z "We have the highest mountain peak in Africa, for example, and we have lost 80 percent of the ice caps there," said Issa. Lima marchers, experts want climate deal to respect rights 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z “Microbial life has also been found in and under Earth’s ice caps, so that a possible Mars’ science objective too.” 5 Top Landing Sites For A Manned Mission To Mars 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z A humid system that lasted for millions of years would help connect the abundance of water scientists now believe might have existed with the polar ice caps which still exist, according to the team. Mars' Gale Crater once held massive lake, NASA says 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z Other high-flying escapades available through the resort’s new partnership with luxury adventure operator Head-Line Mountain Holidays include four more helicopter trips featuring glamping, hot springs, ice caps and snowmobiling or snow biking. Five Must-Ski Destinations This Winter 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Small ice caps like the one over Austfonna are believed to be more vulnerable to climate change-related thawing because relatively more surface area is exposed to the air and sea. An Arctic ice cap’s shockingly rapid slide into the sea 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z “The science of climate change is unforgiving, no matter what the deniers may say, sea levels are rising, ice caps are melting, storms, droughts and wildfires are wreaking havoc,” Clinton said in her speech. Mixed messages: Hillary Clinton slams climate deniers — but still won’t address Keystone XL pipeline 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z Coast Guard Academy is formally honoring a pilot seven decades after his World War II plane crashed on Greenland’s ice cap. AP-CT—Connecticut News Coverage Advisory, CT 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z “The most wonderful thing would be to recover the little Duck off the ice cap and bring those three men home,” she said in an interview from her home in Annapolis, Maryland. Coast Guard honors daring pilot lost in Greenland 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z By 29 August, it had made it to the edge of the ice cap and begun erupting into a barren plain called Holuhraun. Gas-spewing Icelandic volcano stuns scientists 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z The counter-intuitive finding is the result of climate change melting the Arctic ice cap and causing new wind patterns that push freezing air and snow southwards. Global warming has doubled risk of harsh winters in Eurasia, research finds 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z That led them to favor the other scenario: an ocean underneath an ice cap 24 to 31 kilometers thick. Does Mimas have an ocean under an icy cap? 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z However, that might change if global warming melts the ice caps and turns Ann Arbor, Mich., into beachfront property. College football mailbag: 'Ringos' just act naturally to bounce Bruins 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Pritchard launched his amphibious plane from the cutter’s deck, landed on the ice cap, and returned with two of the injured survivors. Coast Guard honors daring pilot lost in Greenland 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z For two weeks, researchers watched as seismic activity marched north and east, towards the edge of the ice cap that covers the volcano. Gas-spewing Icelandic volcano stuns scientists 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z “How do we all play nice when we’re at the top of the ice cap?” US plans upgrade for ageing Greenland research station 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z The caves form as heat rises from the volcano’s depths and melts the base of the ice cap that fills Rainier’s twin craters. Under Rainier’s crater, a natural laboratory like no other 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z He had charts with the same figures you see everywhere: rising CO2 levels, shrinking ice caps, all the usual horsemen. 300,000 people descend on New York in a desperate call for climate change awareness 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z It would remind me of Middle Eastern deserts — dusty soil, dry riverbeds, spattered flecks of vegetation, beautiful rock formations — if it were not surrounded by towering mountains and ice caps. Warming Temperatures Threaten Fragile Balance in Canadian Arctic 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Do you think that the events of the past few years—Hurricane Sandy, the shrinking Arctic ice cap, and drought in the American West—have awoken people to the looming problems of climate change? What Bill McKibben Thinks About the People’s Climate March 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z But while Phoenix landed near the northern ice cap of the planet, InSight will land near the equator. Mars probe 'inspired by lobsters' 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z In 2010, a cloud of abrasive ash from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano, in a different region of Iceland, closed much of Europe's air space for six days after an eruption under the ice cap. Icelandic volcano spews lava from new crack closer to glacier 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z His route, the story goes, stretched across Europe’s largest ice cap, Vatnajökull, and passed by several volcanoes, including one that he decided to name after himself. Reshaping the Earth 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z "There is more lava and more rifts in the ice cap. The rifts are approximately 1 km further to the north than after the fissure eruption on Friday." New Fissure Eruption at Iceland Volcano Prompts Highest Aviation Warning 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z "There is more lava and more rifts in the ice cap. The rifts are approximately 1km further to the north than after the fissure eruption on Friday." Iceland raises volcano warning level after latest eruption 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z Iceland’s Bárðarbunga volcano erupted just after midnight local time on 29 August, sending small lava fountains into the air north of the ice cap that covers the main caldera. Icelandic volcano erupts 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Like this new one, it took place under the Vatnajökull ice cap, and it broke through the ice to spew ash 20 kilometres high. Icelandic volcano erupts : Nature News Blog 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z A glowing wall of molten rock is now leaping and streaming from a fissure north of the volcano’s ice cap. Reshaping the Earth 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z The department says that so far the eruption is considered a minor event, and they can’t yet say if the eruption will remain contained under the glacier’s ice cap. Iceland's Bardarbunga Volcano Is Now Erupting Under A Huge Glacier 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z Early in the morning of 16 August, in a remote corner of central Iceland, small earthquakes began shaking the ground beneath Europe’s largest ice cap. Icelandic volcano shakes ominously 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z On 27 August, they spotted three circular depressions, known as ice cauldrons, in the ice cap on the southeast side of Bárðarbunga. Icelandic volcano erupts 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z He said the ocean expands as the water gets warmer and polar ice caps recede, so Florida’s barrier islands will be eventually be gone. Scientists warn Florida governor of threat from climate change 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z Further, as temperatures rise, the polar ice caps will continue to melt, leading to rising sea levels. Is Climate Change Responsible for the Severity of the Ebola Outbreak? Many of the projected effects of climate change on the world's oceans are already visible, such as melting polar ice caps and rising sea levels. Which Ocean Species Will Outlast the Rising Acidity of Seawater? 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z Atmospheric carbon dioxide began to drop, steadily generating today's world, with ice caps at both poles. How Scientists Uncovered Arctic Clues to a Past Where a Tiny Fern Changed the Planet 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z Obama reiterated the dangers of climate change, which his administration has vowed to make one of its highest priorities during Obama’s last 2½ years in office: rising temperatures, shrinking ice caps, a harsher wildfire season. Obama likens denying climate change to thinking the moon is made of cheese Yet melting polar ice caps, animal and plant species going extinct, and war in Syria caused by the effects of climate change are all doing nothing to change the minds of the American people. Neil deGrasse Tyson takes on his most ferocious opponent yet: Capitalism 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z “This is not just about disappearing polar bears or melting ice caps,” said EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy. Big power-plant pollution cuts are ordered 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z “This is not just about disappearing polar bears or melting ice caps. ... This is about protecting our health and our homes. This is about protecting local economies and jobs.” Carbon Limits Fulfill 'Moral Obligation' to Act on Global Warming, EPA Chief Says 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z But ”this is not just about disappearing polar bears and melting ice caps,” EPA administrator Gina McCarthy said Monday morning during the rule’s announcement. “this is about protecting our health and protecting our homes.” EPA: New power plant rules could result in up to $90 billion in climate and health benefits 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z “This is not just about disappearing polar bears and melting ice caps,” McCarthy said in a speech at EPA headquarters. Obama unveils historic rules to reduce coal pollution by 30% 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z He's careful to talk about the rising costs of extreme weather events and natural disasters, rather than ice caps and polar bears, as a way of driving the issue home. EPA to make President Obama's big move on climate change 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z So is the melting of polar ice caps, the suffering of children, and the nagging question of what it will feel like to die. Barbara Brown Taylor: In Praise of Darkness 2014-04-17T14:24:22Z Such a tilt-a-world becomes potentially life-supporting because the spin would cause the poles to occasionally point at their sun, melting their ice caps. Drunkenly Wobbling Planets Could Make Good Homes For Humans 2014-04-16T17:26:00Z Now, a group of scientists is presenting new findings suggesting that over the centuries, temperature is the main factor controlling the growth and retreat of the largest glacier emerging from the ice cap. Study Links Melting Peruvian Ice Cap to Higher Temperatures 2014-02-25T17:54:12Z The league would play a game on the Arctic ice cap at 3 a.m. on a Tuesday if TV would pay for it. Here’s what you missed in Pac-12 basketball on the way to the Super Bowl 2014-02-05T03:02:31Z Called the Laurentide Ice Sheet, this massive ice cap covered all of Canada and parts of the northern United States 15,000 years ago. Ancient Riverbeds Reveal Clues About Disappearing Glaciers 2014-02-04T18:29:00Z Modelling work suggests this is equivalent to the lakes' ice caps being reduced in thickness by 18-22cm. Arctic icy lakes lose thickness 2014-02-03T13:10:25Z And how do you explain away the melting of ice caps on Mars and other planets if nobody lives there? Readers Respond to "Self-Esteem Can Be an Ego Trap" 2014-02-03T13:00:00Z Walking with friends, he would recite statistics about how the ice caps were melting. After a Son’s Death, Parents Channel Their Grief Into Activism 2014-01-24T21:39:54Z The scientists studied 110 ice caps on Baffin Island in total. Arctic Warming Unprecedented in Last 44,000 Years 2013-10-24T15:45:00.540Z Scientists say that threshold is the minimum required to avoid the most devastating effects of climate change, such as the melting of ice caps and catastrophic rises in sea level. Global Climate Spending Falling Further behind Target 2013-10-22T21:15:05.970Z On Earth, organisms thrive in exotic realms deep below the surface, even beneath ice caps. On Mars, no proof yet, but scientists’ search for extraterrestrial life continues 2013-09-22T22:16:00Z The U.K.-based tabloid Daily Mail proclaimed the "return of the ice cap" in a September headline, a statement echoed by conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh and others. Cooler Year Fails to Shift Long-Term Trend of Arctic Sea Ice Melting 2013-09-19T18:45:02.413Z At the same time, the undersea domain is becoming increasingly important given underwater pipelines, telecommunications cables, increased shipping, oil drilling, and the shrinking Arctic ice cap. Funding cuts would undercut U.S. submarine readiness, presence: Navy 2013-09-12T13:25:18Z Therefore, the scientists determined that the last time the vegetation appeared was during melting of the ice caps. Arctic Warming Unprecedented in Last 44,000 Years 2013-10-24T15:45:00.540Z Firstly, climate change has led to a dramatic shrinking of the Arctic ice cap in recent summers. Expedition 2013-08-26T07:47:03Z This photograph, taken by the North Pole Environmental Observatory, provides a pretty dramatic picture of the reality of the Arctic ice cap. Melting Polar Ice Cap Created A Lake On Top Of The World 2013-07-27T05:46:00Z Back then, mastodons roamed the earth, the polar ice caps were smaller and the sea level was as much as 60 to 80 feet higher. Economic Scene: Insurers Stray From the Conservative Line on Climate Change 2013-05-15T00:14:26Z The expedition’s most ambitious goal was to establish a base 400km farther inland, in the center of the ice cap itself, named appropriately “Mid-Ice“. May 12, 1931: Alfred Wegener's last Journey 2013-05-12T16:45:02.967Z Some of the tested vegetation samples were younger, indicating that their ice cap resting places on Baffin Island melted during the peak Holocene warmth 5,000 to 10,000 years ago. Arctic Warming Unprecedented in Last 44,000 Years 2013-10-24T15:45:00.540Z In just the past decade, the average size of the summer polar ice cap has been slashed nearly in half, from 2.7 million sq. mi. Exclusive: Timelapse Satellite Videos Show Decades of Drastic Changes on Earth 2013-05-09T12:35:26Z One of the ideas was to melt the polar ice cap by exploding nuclear weapons on it, thus raising the global sea level. We tried to weaponize the weather 2013-04-27T19:00:00Z And perhaps most dramatically, the Arctic ice cap is melting rapidly. The Limits of the Earth-Part 1: Problems 2013-04-17T13:45:00.733Z He has returned with commuter regularity to those inhospitable places, hauling portable drilling rigs to probe the heart of ice caps and withdraw long thin cylinders of icy samples. High-Altitude Ice Reveals a Climate on the Rocks 2013-04-09T14:45:00.623Z The findings confirm that the glacier and ice cap regions are melting much faster than Greenland as a whole, he said. Greenland's Glaciers Loom Larger as Source of Sea Level Rise 2013-03-26T15:45:00.697Z The winning entry, a skyscraper that rebuilds arctic ice caps, might not seem so strange. 9 Crazy Skyscrapers That Will Shape the Skylines of the Future 2013-03-18T17:15:02.943Z Truefitt had no idea how assess an ocean-initiated climate change, but he had made a rough calculation to determine what was needed to melt the polar ice cap. We tried to weaponize the weather 2013-04-27T19:00:00Z Its tenuous winds blow, its ice caps expand and shrink, tracks that appear to be a result of trickling springtime water form on mountain faces. The Great (and Recent) Martian Flood 2013-03-11T11:50:00Z "We want to show that the Canadian ice caps should be included in the calculations," he said in a statement. Canada's Arctic glaciers headed for unstoppable thaw: study 2013-03-07T19:06:40Z It is the first such estimate of the country's glaciers and ice caps by themselves and sets the stage for much better predictions of rising sea levels, the researchers said. Greenland's Glaciers Loom Larger as Source of Sea Level Rise 2013-03-26T15:45:00.697Z Or one that slowly rebuilds the polar ice caps. 9 Crazy Skyscrapers That Will Shape the Skylines of the Future 2013-03-18T17:15:02.943Z Some of the earlier “wildcat” ideas were quickly dispensed with as impractical, such as using hydrogen bombs to melt the polar ice caps. We tried to weaponize the weather 2013-04-27T19:00:00Z The fossil record suggests that temperatures slightly warmer than today would not be enough to melt the ice caps entirely. Temperature Rising: Seeking Clues About Sea Level From Fossil Beaches 2013-01-22T00:20:54Z We need to know what it means to have experienced record-breaking temperatures, floods, droughts, wild fires, melting ice caps, and extreme storms. Obama inaugurates renewed energy on climate change 2013-01-21T23:12:47Z Greenland's glaciers and ice caps are melting to such a degree that they are "significant" contributors to global sea level rise and constitute 20 percent of Greenland's overall mass loss, according to a new study. Greenland's Glaciers Loom Larger as Source of Sea Level Rise 2013-03-26T15:45:00.697Z The Arctic ice cap shrank to a record minimum, decades ahead of the projections made by climate scientists as recently as 2007. Fuel energy innovation with a carbon price tag 2013-01-20T15:08:33Z Most of Greenland is covered by an ice cap, but the acceleration of Arctic melting is making it easier to tap the territory's resources. Greenland defiant on rare earths 2013-01-15T13:38:48Z No other vertebrate can live as can he on Antarctic ice cap, in Amazonian jungle, beneath the surface of the sea, or high in the air. The Future: A History of Prediction from the Archives of Scientific American 2013-01-14T19:15:00.220Z Much of its densely populated Atlantic and Gulf coastlines lie less than 10 feet above sea level, and the seas are gradually rising as the Earth warms and ice caps and glaciers melt. Hurricane center pushes to improve storm surge warnings 2012-11-29T17:41:53Z Salty seawater, it hardly needs explaining, is free in every way and abundant – rather too abundant these days, as our ice caps melt away. Growing food in the desert: is this the solution to the world's food crisis? 2012-11-24T21:00:01Z The shift to higher temperatures prompts Mars' southern ice cap, which is made up entirely of frozen carbon dioxide, to start to evaporate and increase the mass of the atmosphere. Dust-devils flirt with Mars rover 2012-11-16T01:11:03Z We do know that the Arctic ice cap is melting faster than was predicted even five years ago. Dot Earth Blog: With Economy Still Trumping Emissions, Obama Plans an Education Push on Climate 2012-11-15T17:27:50Z I believe that climate change is occurring — the reduction in the size of global ice caps is hard to ignore. Climate makes late surge in US elections 2012-11-02T14:54:16Z Gore recently exhorted an audience while showing his trademark slide show about melting polar ice caps and the urgent need to stop burning so much oil and gas. Al Gore has thrived as green-tech investor 2012-10-11T00:55:54Z |
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