Antarctic ice retreat could impact food supply for seabirds
Close-up of a giant petrel. Credit: Professor Richard Phillips The rapid retreat of Antarctica's sea ice could negatively impact the ...
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‘Ice Bucket Challenge’ Reveals Bacteria Can Anticipate Seasons
Microscopic image showing cells of the wild-type cyanobacterial species used in the study. Autofluorescence was pseudo-colored bright green. Scale bar ...
Applied theory offers new insights into sea ice thermal conductivity
An upside-down sea ice slab with brine channels that facilitate drainage of liquid brine and promote convection along the interface. ...
Mars’ ice caps offer clues to ancient climates
Satellite image of Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/USGS As a first-year master's student in the Department of Earth Sciences, Katherine Lutz was ...
To kill mammoths during the Ice Age, humans used pikes, not spears, researchers say
Clovis points are distinguished in part by their distinctive groove or channel-like flake near the base, as seen in these ...
(VIDEO) Skater seriously injured following accident during Disney on Ice show
A Disney ice show turned tragic last Saturday in Minneapolis, United States, when the skater who played Belle from “Beauty ...
Greenland’s ice sheet is melting and being replaced by vegetation, major satellite analysis shows
Russell Glacier and proglacial area, near Kangerlussuaq, west Greenland. Credit: Jonathan Carrivick An estimated 11,000 square miles or 28,707 square ...
Ice ages weren’t as dry as we thought, surprising new study of Australian caves finds
by Rieneke Weij, Jon Woodhead, Josephine Brown, Kale Sniderman and Liz Reed, The Conversation Selection of fossil pollen grains extracted ...
Hall effect reveals hidden symmetry in spin ice
Left: HoAgGe single crystal. Right: Anomalous Hall effect as a function of magnetic field B during up and down sweeps ...
Geoengineering could slow loss of Greenland ice sheet, modeling study suggests
Simulated mass loss of the Greenland ice sheet from 1990 to 2090, expressed as contribution to sea level, under different ...
