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Satellites observe speed-up of Glaciers on the Antarctic Peninsula

Glaciers – giant blocks of moving ice – along Antarctica’s coastline are flowing faster in the summer because of a combination of melting snow and warmer ocean waters, say researchers. …

How eddies affect our climate

New EU project to use supercomputers for improved Earth system simulations. The ocean has a large effect on our planet’s climate. In this regard, mesoscale – i.e., medium-sized – eddies,…

New cloud research project launched

… at the German Antarctic station Neumayer-III. Over the next 12 months, the vertical distribution of aerosol particles and clouds in the atmosphere above the German Neumayer III station of…

Acceleration of global sea level rise

… imminent past 1.8℃ planetary warming. A study published in Nature Communications by an international team of scientists shows that an irreversible loss of the West Antarctic and Greenland ice…

How to pull carbon dioxide out of seawater

A new method for removing the greenhouse gas from the ocean could be far more efficient than existing systems for removing it from the air. As carbon dioxide continues to…

Climate change could cause mass exodus of tropical plankton

The tropical oceans are home to the most diverse plankton populations on Earth, where they form the base of marine food chains. Modern plankton biodiversity in the tropics is a…

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