Posts Tagged ‘ice core’
Ice cores: 800,000 years of climate change
CARDIFF U. (UK) — Drill cores taken from Greenland’s vast ice sheets offer the first clue that Earth’s climate is capable of very rapid transitions. Continue…
Monday, September 12, 2011 16:29 - 3 Comments
Earth & Environment - Dec 2, 2010 14:59 - 0 Comments
Fire and ice found in Antarctic cores
STONY BROOK (US) — Biomass burning in the Southern Hemisphere over the past 650 years appears to be the cause of a fluctuating pattern of carbon monoxide in the Earth’s atmosphere. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Aug 12, 2010 13:47 - 7 Comments
Ancient ice core holds climate future clues
U. COLORADO (US)—An international science team working on the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (NEEM) project has hit bedrock after two summers of work, drilling down more than 1.5 miles in an effort to assess the risks of abrupt future climate change. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Jun 19, 2009 9:02 - 0 Comments
Ice cores show fossil fuels disrupt nitrogen cycle
BROWN (US)—An ice core from Greenland indicates the greatest change in the global nitrogen cycle occurred between 1950 and 1980, following a period of rapid increases in fossil fuel emissions. (more…)
