This month a paper came out that honestly chilled me. It was about tipping points in climate - a well-known concept that the climate can change abruptly if certain conditions are met in certain elements... continue reading

posted by newtboy 2 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 78 views • 11:01

Ice lost in Greenland means higher sea levels around the world. "Oceans Melting Greenland," a NASA program in its fourth year, is studying the melt. So far, measurements indicate a rate of melt exceeding... continue reading

posted by newtboy 5 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 325 views • 3:27

Welcome to the US National Ice Core Laboratory in Denver, Colorado, where there's a giant freezer filled with 20km of ice cores from Greenland and the Antarctic. Here's why.

posted by Mekanikal 7 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 1,213 views • 3:33

YouTube description: Foraminifera – tiny, single-celled marine life forms – build gorgeous houses that record how much ice there is on the planet. Special thanks to Professor Lee Kump of Penn... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 3 months ago • 489 views • 2:51

Glaciologists will find this video obvious. Everyone else... well, maybe I slept through a bit of sixth-grade geography, but I didn't know this, and I reckon I should have done.

posted by Mordhaus 8 years 5 months 4 weeks ago • 504 views • 3:01

At Qaanaaq, in Greenland, there's IS18: an infrasound station that's quietly listening for nuclear tests — or any other large bang. Here's what, why, and a few words the man who, for years, has been... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 8 years 6 months ago • 222 views • 4:08

YouTube: In the search for longevity, scientists have found the longest-lived vertebrates on the planet in the arctic. Meanwhile, in warmer climes, the FDA approves a new method for combating disease-carrying... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 7 months ago • 100 views • 5:02

Via YouTube: Canada & Denmark keep leaving bottles of whiskey for each other, on a remote island called Hans Island, but why?

posted by Gratefulmom 8 years 8 months ago • 824 views • 3:43

Common misconceptions about climate change. References below: For CO2, sea levels, Arctic sea ice, Antarctic and Greenland land ice: http://climate.nasa.gov Satellite data shows that ground-based... continue reading

posted by cricket 1 decade 5 months 3 weeks ago • 868 views • 6:50