New research has revealed that ice shelves in Antarctica are primarily melting from below due to warm ocean waters, rather than by dramatic iceberg breaks. Scientists believe that this phenomenon is causing a much faster and larger rate of melting than previously anticipated.
According to new research published in Nature, melting ice around Antarctica will cause a rapid slowdown of a major global deep ocean current by 2050.
In Antarctica, glaciers are sloshing seaward at an ever faster clip, ocean waters are warming, according to a batch of recent studies that paint a stark picture of climate change unfolding at the far southern reaches of the globe.
Areas of the coastal ocean where oxygen is low or absent in bottom waters, so-called dead zones, are expanding worldwide.
The IPCC concluded that “for all parts of the world studied, the results are suggestive of a trend toward environments favouring more severe thunderstorms.”
Andy Skuce discusses a myth that exaggerates the potential risk from methane clathrate feedback.
Tiny bubbles of water found in quartz grains in Australia may hold the key to understanding what caused the Earth’s first ice age.
Ancient coastal landmarks are destroyed by the forceful power of rising seas.
The skeletal trees are said to have given rise to the local legend of a lost kingdom.
