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Antarctic Sea Ice Hits Record … High?

Written on October 13, 2012.

Does that mean Earth isn’t warming up? Daniel Stone, National Geographic News Despite frequent headlines about a warming planet, melting sea ice, and rising oceans, climate analysts pointed to a seeming bright spot this week: During Southern Hemisphere winters, sea ice in the Antarctic, the floating chunks of frozen ocean water, is actually increasing. In fact, in late September, satellite data indicated that Antarctica was surrounded by the greatest area of sea ice ever recorded...

Chile, Greenland Glacier Study: $2 million

Written on November 18, 2011.

Pat Brennan, Orange County Register A UC Irvine scientist will receive a $2.2 million grant to study glaciers in Chile and Greenland, potentially shedding further light on the links among vanishing glaciers, rising sea levels and a warming planet. Eric Rignot, a researcher at UC Irvine and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena who specializes in polar ice, will measure subtle changes in gravity during helicopter flights over the glaciers and ice fields of Patagonia. He’ll also...

Droughtbusters

Written on October 3, 2011.

Anita Hamilton, Time Magazine Record droughts have parched the earth’s crust from Somalia to Texas this year. The effects on the world’s drinking-water supply have been enormous. The level of China’s Yangtze River, the third largest in the world, sank so low this spring that about 400,000 people along its shores were stuck without a local drinking-water source until the government opened the gates of its massive Three Gorges dam to help counteract the crisis. In East Africa,...

Mapping Antarctic Ice In Motion

Written on August 18, 2011.

Felicity Barringer, The New York Times Put the arguments over how fast Antarctic ice is melting to one side for the moment. The latest study of the southern continent, by a group of scientists led by Eric Rignot of the University of California, Irvine, shows how fast the ice rivers are moving and where they are going. The map of ice in motion, which traces parts of the eastern Antarctic region that have previously been hard to see, offers a new and powerful tool for...

First-of-its-kind study finds alarming increase in flow of water into oceans

Written on October 4, 2010.

UCI-led team cites global warming, accelerated cycle of evaporation, precipitation Janet Wilson, University Communications Freshwater is flowing into Earth’s oceans in greater amounts every year, a team of researchers has found, thanks to more frequent and extreme storms linked to global warming. All told, 18 percent more water fed into the world’s oceans from rivers and melting polar ice sheets in 2006 than in 1994, with an average annual rise of 1.5 percent. “That might not sound like...

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Antarctic Sea Ice Hits Record … High?

Chile, Greenland Glacier Study: $2 million

Droughtbusters

Mapping Antarctic Ice In Motion

First-of-its-kind study finds alarming increase in flow of water into oceans