On thin Ice
Tags: GLOBAL warming; ANTARCTIC Peninsula (Antarctica) -- Environmental conditions
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- ANTARCTICA: The Ice Is Moving. Helvarg, David // E: The Environmental Magazine;Sep/Oct2000, Vol. 11 Issue 5, p33
Focuses on the effects of global warming in the Antarctic Peninsula. Decrease in the food sources of adelie penguins; Reasons for the decrease of krill, the main source of food for the penguins; Signs of global warming in the Antarctic Peninsula.
- Rapid Ice Loss on the Antarctic Peninsula. // CO2 Science;10/13/2010, Vol. 13 Issue 41, p4
The article discusses a research paper on the rapid ice loss on the western Antarctic Peninsula due to global warming. It references a study by B. L. Hall et al., published in an issue of "Geology." The researchers found moss and reworked marine shells from organic-rich sediments exposed by the...
- Southern exposure. Walker, Gabrielle // New Scientist;08/14/99, Vol. 163 Issue 2199, p42
Discusses the disappearing ice shelves of the Antarctic Peninsula. Use of the peninsula as a gauge to global warming; Techniques used to verify if the ice shelves are simply fluctuating and readjusting, and not melting; Implications of the phenomena.
- Viewing on thin ice. // Engineer (00137758);4/5/2002, Vol. 291 Issue 7596, p4
Provide information on Envisat, an environmental monitoring satellite launched by the European Space Agency in March 2002. Description of the environment at the Antarctic Peninsula; Information on the image beamed back to Earth by Envisat.
- Marine Ecosystem Sensitivity to Climate Change. Smith, Raymond C.; Ainley, David; Baker, Karen; Domack, Eugene; Emslie, Steve; Fraser, Bill; Kennett, James; Leventer, Amy; Mosley-Thompson, Ellen; Stammerjohn, Sharon; Vernet, Maria // BioScience;May99, Vol. 49 Issue 5, p393
Summarizes data on climate variability and trends in the western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) region. Analysis of the data in the context of long-term climate variability in the last 8000 years of the Holocene period; Evidence for WAP climate change; Ecological responses to climate change;...
- Holocene Southern Ocean surface temperature variability west of the Antarctic Peninsula. Shevenell, A. E.; Ingalls, A. E.; Domack, E. W.; Kelly, C. // Nature;2/10/2011, Vol. 470 Issue 7333, p250
The disintegration of ice shelves, reduced sea-ice and glacier extent, and shifting ecological zones observed around Antarctica highlight the impact of recent atmospheric and oceanic warming on the cryosphere. Observations and models suggest that oceanic and atmospheric temperature variations at...
- Mountains create "ozone eating" clouds in Antarctica. // New Scientist;1/3/2009, Vol. 200 Issue 2688, p12
The article reports that the rare clouds created by the "mountain waves" in the atmosphere above Antarctica helps destroy the ozone layer. It states that a hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica has been opened due to the chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) that are released by human activity. It notes...
- Slowing global warming. // Scholastic SuperScience;Mar1998, Vol. 9 Issue 6, p3
Provides information about global warming. Discussion in Japan on ways of alleviating global warming; Effects of global warming on Earth; Process causing the rapid warming of the planet.
- Global pollution. Dasset, Benoit; Zetterlund, Mattias; Broomfield, Aaron // Newsweek (Pacific Edition);01/12/98, Vol. 131 Issue 2, p10
Presents reader responses to a December 8, 1997 story in same magazine on global warming.
