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- Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral Beatles concert will span the continents
- Lee Hotz: Inside an Antarctic time machine
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NASA’s Successful Ice Cloud and Land Elevation Mission Comes to an End
Earth Observatory UPDATE: NASA’s Orbital Debris Program Office at Johnson Space Center, Houston, has reported that debris from the ICESat spacecraft fell to Earth in the Barents Sea on Monday, Aug. 30, at approximately 5 a.m. EDT. One of NASA’s … Continue reading
Posted in Arctic, antarctica, climate change, ice, mapping, research
Tagged aerosols, clouds, decommission, discoveries, Geoscience Laser Altimeter System, GLAS, Goddard Space Flight Center, Ice Cloud and Land Elevation Satallite, ice sheets, ICESat, ICESat-2, Operation Ice Bridge, re-entry, sea ice thickness
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Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral Beatles concert will span the continents
Ah hem…I couldn’t help myself… From the Liverpool Echo Catherine Jones writes… RUSSIAN Monks based at a church in Antarctica will perform at a Beatles concert in Liverpool Cathedral this weekend. The cathedral bells will ring Across The Universe over … Continue reading
Lee Hotz: Inside an Antarctic time machine
Science columnist Lee Hotz describes a remarkable project at WAIS Divide, Antarctica, where a hardy team are drilling into ten-thousand-year-old ice to extract vital data on our changing climate. I just loved these colours from a still in the presentation. … Continue reading
Posted in antarctica, climate change, conservation, ice, mapping, research, world water
Tagged global warming, ice cores, Lee Hotz, TED 2010, unlocking secrets, WAIS, WAIS Divide
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Disaster at the Top of the World
By THOMAS HOMER-DIXON aboard the Louis S. St-Laurent for NY Times STANDING on the deck of this floating laboratory for Arctic science, which is part of Canada’s Coast Guard fleet and one of the world’s most powerful icebreakers, I can … Continue reading
Posted in Arctic, climate change, conservation, ice, mapping, research, world water
Tagged Arctic Ocean, climate policy, climate shock, fear, food system, human civilization, ice breaker, living standards, Louis S. St-Laurent, melting, personal identities, protective cognition, Responding to Threat of Climate Change Mega-Catastrophes, sea ice, special interests, the Polar Sea, types of crises
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100-year-old Scotch pulled from frozen crate
AP WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A crate of Scotch whisky that was trapped in Antarctic ice for a century was finally opened Friday — but the heritage dram won’t be tasted by whisky lovers because it’s being preserved for its … Continue reading
NASA Project Traces Antarctica From Space
Red Orbit Antarctica may not be the world’s largest landmass — it’s the fifth-largest continent — but resting on top of that land is the world’s largest ice sheet. That ice holds more than 60 percent of Earth’s fresh water … Continue reading
Posted in antarctica, climate change, ice, mapping, photography, research, world water
Tagged 60 percent of Earth's fresh water, an accurate map of the grounding line, Antarctic Surface Accumulation and Ice Discharge, ASAID, fifth-largest continent, International Polar Year, International Polar Year Oslo Science Conference, nasa, Robert Bindschadler
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