Hyderabad: A massive zone of cool water in the North Atlantic Ocean is slowing the melting of Iceland’s glaciers. But the so-called Blue Blob, an anomaly in an otherwise warming ocean, may only be around for a few decades before the overall trend of warming takes over again, according to new research. Read more about […]
London: A new study has suggested that the Arctic Ocean has been getting warmer since the beginning of the 20th century – decades earlier than the records have previously suggested. The findings of the study were published in the journal ‘Science Advances’. An international group of researchers reconstructed the recent history of ocean warming at […]
Around 80 percent of Greenland is covered by the Greenland Ice Sheet, which Britannica explains is the largest and possibly the only relic of the Pleistocene glaciations in the Northern Hemisphere. But has it always been so icy? Well, at the bottom of a 1.4 km core sample, which was taken in 1966 at Camp […]
Students traveled to the Arctic virtually to take a deep dive into that region's unique ecosystem encouraging them to seek knowledge to fulfill their learning needs.
The survey covers 215,000 mountain glaciers spread around the planet, the polar ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, the ice shelves floating around Antarctica, and sea ice drifting in the Arctic and Southern Oceans
