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What lies beneath melting glaciers and thawing permafrost?

Around the planet, ice is rapidly disappearing. From mountain tops, the poles, the seas, and the tundra. As the ice melts, it's exposing new surfaces, new opportunities, and new threats—including valuable mineral deposits, archaeological relics, no.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgSep 14th, 2022

Swiss glaciers are receding again after 2 punishing years and despite a good start to 2024

The volume of Switzerland's glaciers shrank again this summer, compounding the negative impact of climate change after a devastating two-year run that depleted the ice by more than 10%, scientific experts reported Tuesday......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 2nd, 2024

Scientists highlight overlooked threats to Arctic coasts amid climate change

As climate change rapidly transforms Arctic marine systems, the dramatic image of a polar bear struggling on a melting ice floe has become symbolic of the region's environmental crisis. But scientists argue that coastal Arctic ecosystems are undergoi.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 1st, 2024

Melting glaciers force Switzerland and Italy to redraw part of their border

Melting glaciers force Switzerland and Italy to redraw part of their border.....»»

Category: topSource:  theglobeandmailRelated NewsOct 1st, 2024

This $76 accessory sounds an alarm if your GPU is melting

Thermal Grizzly's WireView Pro protects your GPU from potential damage by measuring and monitoring temperature and power......»»

Category: topSource:  digitaltrendsRelated NewsSep 30th, 2024

Lunar gravity measurements hint at a partially molten mantle layer

We know that beneath its crater-pocked silicate crust, the moon has an olivine mantle and a metallic core. Some research has also suggested that a partially molten layer may lie at the base of the otherwise solid mantle, sandwiched between it and the.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsSep 30th, 2024

Saturday Citations: Octopuses as shift supervisors for fish; universe confounds standard model; extremely old cheese

This week, biologists tracked down a mysterious group of orcas near Chile; Hubble spotted a black hole jet that causes stars along its trajectory to erupt; and researchers explained mysterious craters that began appearing in Siberian permafrost in th.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsSep 28th, 2024

Geologists discover mysterious subduction zone beneath Pacific, reshaping understanding of Earth"s interior

University of Maryland scientists uncovered evidence of an ancient seafloor that sank deep into Earth during the age of dinosaurs, challenging existing theories about Earth's interior structure. Located in the East Pacific Rise (a tectonic plate boun.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsSep 28th, 2024

Another building block of life can handle Venus" sulfuric acid

Venus is often described as a hellscape. The surface temperature breaches the melting point of lead, and though its atmosphere is dominated by carbon dioxide, it contains enough sulfuric acid to satisfy the comparison with Hades......»»

Category: topSource:  informationweekRelated NewsSep 27th, 2024

Study offers new explanation for Siberia"s permafrost craters

Mysterious craters that first appeared in the Siberian permafrost a decade ago were caused by climate change-driven pressure changes that explosively released methane frozen underground, a new study reports. The research offers a fresh take on the or.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsSep 27th, 2024

Researcher develops low-sugar ice cream with smooth texture

Wageningen researcher Qi Wang has developed a new variant of low-sugar ice cream that mimics the texture and melting properties of traditional ice cream. By replacing half of the sugar with broken-down proteins or the sweetener xylitol, she succeeded.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsSep 25th, 2024

Arctic sea ice near historic low; Antarctic ice continues decline

Arctic sea ice retreated to near-historic lows in the Northern Hemisphere this summer, likely melting to its minimum extent for the year on Sept.11, 2024, according to researchers at NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). The decline.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsSep 25th, 2024

"Doomsday" glacier set to melt faster and swell seas as world heats up, say scientists

Tidal action on the underside of the Thwaites Glacier in the Antarctic will "inexorably" accelerate melting this century, according to new research by British and American scientists. The researchers warn the faster melting could destabilize the enti.....»»

Category: topSource:  marketingvoxRelated NewsSep 23rd, 2024

Experts Finally Identify Mysterious Remains Found Buried Beneath Notre Dame Cathedral

Experts Finally Identify Mysterious Remains Found Buried Beneath Notre Dame Cathedral.....»»

Category: topSource:  theglobeandmailRelated NewsSep 22nd, 2024

Scientists looked deep beneath the Doomsday Glacier. What they found spells potential disaster for the planet

Scientists looked deep beneath the Doomsday Glacier. What they found spells potential disaster for the planet.....»»

Category: topSource:  informationweekRelated NewsSep 20th, 2024

The Outrageous Scheme to Capture and Sell Greenland’s Meltwater

A startup says shipping meltwater from Greenland’s glaciers internationally will boost the local economy and could help ease water pressures in arid regions—but what does that actually mean for the world?.....»»

Category: gadgetSource:  wiredRelated NewsSep 19th, 2024

Geoscientists confirm "dripping" of Earth"s crust beneath Türkiye"s Central Anatolian Plateau

Recent satellite data reveal that the Konya Basin in the Central Anatolian Plateau of Türkiye is continually being reshaped over millions of years, according to a new analysis led by Earth scientists at the University of Toronto......»»

Category: topSource:  marketingvoxRelated NewsSep 18th, 2024

Ocean sediment is a "mudtropolis"—meet the carbon-cycling creatures thriving beneath the seabed

Sitting in darkness, deep below the sunlit surface, an iridescent nightmare awaits its prey. With precision and speed, it strikes and slices a passing fish clean in half with a set of jaws twice the width of its head. The armor-plated creature retrea.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsSep 18th, 2024

Rare woolly rhino mummies emerge from the permafrost

The new finds confirm the existence of a feature seen in cave art. Enlarge / Portion of a reproduction of cave paintings in France, showing rhinos (among other species). (credit: JEFF PACHOUD) For most people, an extinct.....»»

Category: topSource:  marketingvoxRelated NewsSep 17th, 2024

Complex dynamics of 2024 M 7.6 Noto Hanto earthquake in Japan—the long-lasting swarm and its immediate foreshocks

A study published in the journal Earthquake Research Advances sheds light on the relationship between the 2024 magnitude 7.6 Noto Hanto earthquake and a sizable earthquake swarm that began beneath Japan's Noto Peninsula in November 2020......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsSep 16th, 2024

"Disappeared completely": melting glaciers worry Central Asia

Near a wooden hut high up in the Kyrgyz mountains, scientist Gulbara Omorova walked to a pile of gray rocks, reminiscing how the same spot was a glacier just a few years ago......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsSep 16th, 2024