Climate Change: Global Sea Level Has Risen This article originally appeared on climate.gov Global mean sea-level has risen about 8–9 inches (21–24 centimeters) since 1880, with about a third of that coming in just the last two and a half decades. The rising water level is mostly due to a combination of meltwater from glaciers and ice sheets and thermal expansion of seawater as it warms. In 2019, the […] SnowBrains | October 7, 2020 4 Comments
Thwaites Glacier: The World’s Most Consequential Ice [arve url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRUxTFWWWdY"] Alex Camerino | August 14, 2020 Likes Tweets 0 Comments
Only One-Fifth of the Ocean Floor is Mapped A new milestone was reached late June; one-fifth of the ocean floor is now mapped. When the Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project started back in 2017 only 6% of the ocean floor had been mapped. Their goal is to complete the first map of the entire seafloor. While the team can celebrate one-fifth of the seabed being mapped that means […] Brains Alex Camerino | July 3, 2020 0 Comments
Siberian Town Experiences Hottest Temperature Ever Recorded in the Arctic This past Saturday, June 20th proved to be the hottest day ever recorded in the Arctic. In the town of Verkhoyansk, in Siberia, Russia a high temperature for the day of 100.4ºF (38ºC) was recorded, which is the hottest temperature ever recorded in the Arctic. The previous high was 99.1ºF (37.3ºC). The Arctic has seen many temperature records broken in the […] Alex Camerino | June 22, 2020 0 Comments
Iceberg The Size of Delaware Has Finally Broken Off Of Antarctica | Will Likely Lead to Sea Level Rise Huge Antarctic iceberg finally breaks free by the British Antarctic Survey July 12th, 2017 After months of ‘hanging by a thread’ a vast iceberg the size of Norfolk has finally broken off Antarctica’s Larsen C Ice Shelf. Around 30 metres of this 190m thick block of ice sits above the sea surface. Scientists now have opportunities to study the stability […] Industry News Guest Author | July 12, 2017 0 Comments
New Study: Earth’s Glaciers Release 1 Lake Erie into the Ocean Every 2 Years According to the latest issue of the journal “Science,” Earth’s glaciers lost 260 gigatons of water every year between 2003 and 2009. To put it in layman’s terms, that’s 1 Lake Erie (240 miles long 57 miles wide, average 60 feet deep) every 2 years. “There was a large amount of uncertainty in how much these glaciers were contributing to sea-level rise […] Weather SnowBrains | May 16, 2013 4 Comments
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