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Ice Volume Of Switzerland’s Glaciers Calculated
Switzerland's glaciers have
lost twelve percent of their
ice volume since 1999. The
water stored in
Switzerland's glaciers
currently equates to about
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Seals Quickly Respond To Gain And Loss Of Habitat Under Climate Change
Southern elephant seals
responded rapidly to climate
and habitat change and
established a new breeding
site thousands of kilometers
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Arctic Climate Under Greenhouse Conditions In The Late Cretaceous
New evidence for ice-free
summers with intermittent
winter sea ice in the Arctic
Ocean during the Late
Cretaceous -- a period of
greenhouse conditions --
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New NASA Satellite Survey Reveals Dramatic Arctic Sea Ice Thinning
Arctic sea ice thinned
dramatically between the
winters of 2004 and 2008,
with thin seasonal ice
replacing thick older ice as
... > full story
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Climate Events Let Ice Age Mammoths Pass Far Below The 40°N Latitude
July 9, 2009 — Europe's southern-most skeletal remains of a mammoth were unearthed in a moor on the 37°N latitude. This is considerably south of the inhospitable habitat than one usually imagines for mammoths, ... > full story -
Close Relationship Between Past Warming And Sea-level Rise
July 7, 2009 — Scientists have reconstructed sea-level fluctuations over the last 520,000 years. Comparison of this record with data on global climate and CO2 levels from Antarctic ice cores suggests that even ... > full story -
Ancient Drought And Rapid Cooling Drastically Altered Climate
July 6, 2009 — Two abrupt and drastic climate events, 700 years apart and more than 45 centuries ago, are teasing scientists who are now trying to use ancient records to predict future world climate. The events -- ... > full story -
Ancient Supervolcano's Eruption Caused Decade Of Severe Winters
July 6, 2009 — Previous studies have suggested that Indonesia's Toba supervolcano, when it erupted about 74,000 years ago, triggered a 1,000-year episode of ice sheet advance, and also may have produced a ... > full story -
Sea Ice At Lowest Level In 800 Years Near Greenland
July 2, 2009 — New research, which reconstructs the extent of ice in the sea between Greenland and Svalbard from the 13th century to the present indicates that there has never been so little sea ice as there is ... > full story -
Biogenic Origin For Earth's Oldest Putative Microfossils
July 2, 2009 — Microbes and bacteria were the first living organisms on Earth, and they can be preserved in Archean silica-rich rocks. One such outcrop from western Australia, dated to 3.5 billion years ago, may ... > full story -
Plants Save The Earth From An Icy Doom
July 2, 2009 — When glaciers advanced over much of the Earth's surface during the last ice age, what kept the planet from freezing over entirely? This has been a puzzle to climate scientists because leading models ... > full story -
Mid-Pliocene Asian Monsoon Intensification And The Onset Of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation
July 2, 2009 — The late Pliocene onset of major Northern Hemisphere glaciation is one of the most important steps in the Cenozoic global cooling. Although most attempts have been focused on high-latitude climate ... > full story -
Earth's Most Prominent Rainfall Feature Creeping Northward
July 1, 2009 — The rain band near the equator that determines the supply of freshwater to nearly a billion people throughout the tropics and subtropics has been creeping north for more than 300 years. If the band ... > full story -
Ancient Climate Change: When Palm Trees Gave Way To Spruce Trees
June 25, 2009 — One long-standing climate puzzle relates to the Late Eocene and Early Oligocene. Profound changes were underway. Globally, carbon dioxide levels were falling and the hothouse warmth of the dinosaur ... > full story
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