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What's hot in the news around climate and sea ice and what are scientists talking about now? News Archive
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2019
Cryosphere in the News
"More than 26,000 years ago, sea level was much lower than it is today partly because the ice sheets that jut out from the continent of Antarctica were enormous and covered by grounded ice—ice that was fully attached to the seafloor."
(Phys.Org)"If the warming Arctic releases more planet-warming methane, that could lead to. . . more warming. Scientists call this a feedback loop."
(ADN.com)"Ice dominates both polar regions but in different ways. The Arctic is a frozen ocean surrounded by land. Antarctica, by contrast, is a frozen landmass surrounded by ocean."
(HakaiMagazine.com)"Several companies turned back or rerouted Arctic sailings after the open-water conditions of the past several years gave way to relatively heavy ice."
(ADN.com)"The Titanic tragedy in 1912 left one enduring legacy: the creation of a group monitoring sea ice in the North Atlantic."
(WashingtonPost.com)"It warmed up over zero degrees this year—for the first time ever, we believe. . . . fish have no reason not to migrate north.”
(WashingtonPost.com)"It is startling that the Vavilov Ice Cap, until recently an apparently stable ice cap with an almost entirely frozen bed that is almost entirely above sea level, is able to rapidly discharge such a large proportion of its ice in to the ocean in such a short period."
(Earther.gizmodo.com)
