Johannesburg, South Africa – Called a huge ship RV Polarstern Ct 389 days trapped in the ice slowly flowing towards the Arctic. It was a scientific mission on an unprecedented scale, and participants say their findings should warn that people in every corner of the globe will pay the price …
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Editor’s note 11/13/2020: Since we launched this blog, experts have raised serious questions about its conclusion and methodology. “The paper is nonsense that shouldn’t have passed a competent peer review,” a meteorologist told Gizmodo. We will continue to monitor the controversy – and be able to update the story again. …
Read More »The ancient basin, now miles below the ice, is shaped like a meat cleaver. Image: Paxman et al., EPSL, 2020 Using radar and other ice-infiltration devices, scientists have discovered a “fossil lake” preserved under a sheet of Greenland ice, which is the first discovery of its kind. According to Columbia …
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Scientists have found evidence that static methane deposits in the Arctic Ocean – known as the “sleeping giants of the carbon cycle” – have begun to be released over a wide area of the continental shelf along the East Siberian coast, the Guardian could reveal. High levels of powerful greenhouse …
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GM President Mark Reese spoke in January about plans for an all-electric SUV and pickup truck at the Detroit-Hemtramac assembly plant. AFP by Getty Images Scientists from the two largest car manufacturers in the United States learned in the early 1960s that emissions from cars and trucks had changed the …
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