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Global Warming: Once Stable East Antarctica Losing Ice

Time.com - Fri Nov 27, 4:55 am ET

A new study suggests that the East Antarctic ice sheet, which holds about five times as much ice as West Antarctica and Greenland combined, is in decline

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Photographer finds stark beauty in Antarctica
Lancaster Online - Wed Nov 25, 5:15 pm ET
The photographs are stark, strikingly beautiful, almost other worldly.The man who took them agrees."It is the most raw, remote place on earth," John Higdon says of Antarctica, the subject of his exhibit at the Keystone Art & Culture Center, 420 Pearl St., which opens Friday with a reception."The ice...
Relatives of air crash victims return to Antarctic
AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 27, 3:04 am ET
Six relatives of 257 people killed during an Air New Zealand sightseeing flight to Antarctica 30 years ago returned to the crash site Friday to mark the anniversary.
Have You Heard The One About Life On Mars?
Discovery Channel - Fri Nov 27, 5:54 pm ET
A 13,000 year old meteorite from Mars, found in 1984 in the Allan Hills Region of Antarctica, is back in the news. The rock caused quite a stir when NASA announced during an August 1996 press conference that it contained ...
Icebergs head from Antarctica for New Zealand
AP via Yahoo! News - Wed Nov 25, 9:52 am ET
Ships are on alert and maritime authorities are monitoring the movements of hundreds of menacing icebergs drifting toward New Zealand in the southern Pacific Ocean, officials said.
That East Antarctic mass loss, in full [Stoat]
ScienceBlogs - Fri Nov 27, 6:32 pm ET
Ah, a fertile theme for post names. Excellent. So, much excitement over a new GRACE study in Nurture ( Accelerated Antarctic ice loss from satellite gravity measurements , J. L. Chen et al. ) indicating that Antarctica as a whole was losing mass: In agreement with an independent earlier assessment, we estimate a total loss of 190plusminus77 Gt yr-1, with 132plusminus26 Gt yr-1 coming from West ...
Wharton teaches leadership skills in Antarctica
Daily Pennsylvanian - Tue Nov 24, 9:00 pm ET
For some Wharton MBAs, learning means trekking across glaciers in Antarctica and sailing in the Caribbean. Wharton Leadership Ventures provides experiential learning for MBA students, through trips to locales like Kilimanjaro and the British Virgin Islands. One group will travel to Antarctica during winter break. read more
LSU gets to the bottom of things -- in Antarctica
EurekAlert! - Tue Nov 24, 12:17 pm ET
( Louisiana State University ) Antarctica has long held secrets of the Earth's history locked in its icy depths, and until recently, there has been very little information on the environments that have been sealed beneath miles of ice for millions of years. Now, a team of researchers from nine institutions -- including Louisiana State University -- have been funded to the tune of $10 million ...
NASA satellites detect unexpected ice loss in East Antarctica
Science Daily - Thu Nov 26, 12:21 am ET
Using gravity measurement data from the NASA/German Aerospace Center's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission, a team of scientists from the University of Texas at Austin has found that the East Antarctic ice sheet-home to about 90 percent of Earth's solid fresh water and previously considered stable-may have begun to lose ice.
“Happy New Year! ThePoles.com”: 2008/2009 Antarctica speed records and new season roundup
MountEverest.net - Tue Nov 24, 11:35 am ET
09:49 am CST Nov 24, 2009 (ThePoles.com) Last season was a great year for human milestones at Antarctica and ExWeb even got a very special New Year's greeting (check snow in the top image).
Antarctica Loses Ice From East as Well as West, Scientists Say
Bloomberg - Mon Nov 23, 1:13 pm ET
Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Antarctica is losing ice from its larger eastern side as well as the western part, an indication the southernmost continent may add “significantly more” to rising seas, researchers in Texas said.
First Signs of Melting Seen in East Antarctica
Discovery Channel - Mon Nov 23, 10:09 am ET
Earth's last great icy citadel, the East Antarctica Ice Sheet, is beginning to crumble under warming.
Icebergs head from Antarctica for New Zealand
AP via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 23, 10:56 pm ET
Ships in the south Pacific Ocean have been alerted that groups of icebergs believed to have split off Antarctic ice shelves are drifting north toward New Zealand, officials said Tuesday.
Icebergs head from Antarctica for New Zealand
Boston Herald - Tue Nov 24, 4:18 pm ET
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A flotilla of hundreds of icebergs that split off Antarctic ice shelves is drifting toward New Zealand and could pose a risk to ships in the south...
Hundreds of Icebergs Approach New Zealand
CBS News - Wed Nov 25, 11:30 am ET
Ships Warned Over Rare Northerly Sightings of Massive Flotilla of Ice Split Off from Antarctica
Icebergs head from Antarctica for New Zealand
The Standard-Times - Wed Nov 25, 12:16 am ET
The Associated Press