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Climate Change

NASA’s Operation IceBridge Surveys Greenland and Earth’s Polar Ice Sheets

March 26, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter NASA’s Operation IceBridge has begun the 2013 research season of Ice Science flights in Greenland and the Arctic to survey the regions ice sheets and land and sea ice using a specially equipped P-3B research aircraft from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility [...]

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Manhattan-Sized Ice Island Heads Out to Sea

September 17, 2012

An “ice island” that calved from the Petermann Glacier in July is seen by NASA satellite (MODIS/Terra) Remember that enormous slab of ice that broke off Greenland’s Petermann Glacier back in July? It’s now on its way out to sea, a little bit smaller than it was a couple of months ago — but not [...]

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Is Earth Alive? Scientists Seek Sulfur For An Answer

May 16, 2012

Researchers at the University of Maryland have discovered a way to identify and track sulfuric compounds in Earth’s marine environment, opening a path to either refute or support a decades-old hypothesis that our planet can be compared to a singular, self-regulating, living organism — a.k.a. the Gaia theory. Remove this ad

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Antarctica’s Ice Being Eaten Away From Below

April 25, 2012

Data collected from a NASA ice-watching satellite reveal that the vast ice shelves extending from the shores of  western Antarctica are being eaten away from underneath by ocean currents, which have been growing warmer even faster than the air above. Remove this ad

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1981 Climate Change Predictions Were Eerily Accurate

April 6, 2012

A paper published in the journal Science in August 1981 made several projections regarding future climate change and anthropogenic global warming based on manmade CO2 emissions. As it turns out, the authors’  projections have proven to be rather accurate — and their future is now our present. Remove this ad

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