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Small amounts of warm water sneaking between land and ice can lead to big changes.

New "Tipping Point" Found In Antarctica – And It’s As Bad As It Sounds

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New research into some of Earth’s largest ice sheets has revealed a startling new Antarctic tipping point, and researchers say that it has the potential to be disastrous. According to a new study published this month, warm seawater has not only been lapping at the underside of the Antarctic ice shelves but has also been seeping into the space between the land and the overlying ice sheet.
This really isn’t a very surprising discovery. The ice shelves have been teetering at the edge of trouble for many years now. They continue to be one of the biggest doomsday concerns for many,...

Scientists found a new ‘tipping point’ in the Antarctic ice shelves, and it’s really bad

Warm water flowing beneath can cause ice to melt in ways not currently accounted for in models. Scientists have identified a concerning new mechanism for the melting of large ice sheets. The study highlights how relatively warm seawater can erode the underside of ice that is grounded, potentially speeding up the process by which ice moves into the ocean.

Undetected Melting Threat: Scientists Discover New Antarctic Tipping Point

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(Reuters) - Glaciers in the Juneau Icefield in southeastern Alaska are melting at a faster rate than previously thought and may reach an irreversible tipping point sooner than expected, according to a study published on Tuesday.

Alaska glaciers may hit irreversible melting point sooner than expected, study finds

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A monster fish which looks more like a beached UFO than a worldly creature has washed up on a beach in the US state of Oregon.The 7.3-foot (2.2-metre) creature appeared on the shores of the city of Gearhart last Monday (3 June), leaving onlookers both fascinated and bewildered.“Initially, this large, strange-looking fish was creating quite a stir on social media and though it was stormy, folks were flocking to the beach to see this unusual fish,” Gearhart’s Seaside Aquarium wrote in a Facebook post.News of the extraordinary find soon travelled across the world, reaching New Zealand where researcher Marianne Nyegaard...

Monster found on Oregon beach identified as newly discovered species

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Kathmandu - On Everest's sacred slopes, climate change is thinning snow and ice, increasingly exposing the bodies of hundreds of mountaineers who died chasing their dream to summit the world's highest mountain. Among those scaling the soaring Himalayan mountain this year was a team not aiming for the 29,032-foot peak, but risking their own lives to bring some of the corpses down. Five as yet unnamed frozen bodies were retrieved — including one that was just skeletal remains — as part of Nepal's mountain clean-up campaign on Everest and adjoining peaks Lhotse and Nuptse. It is a grim, tough and...

Mount Everest's melting ice reveals bodies in the "death zone"

The frozen continent of Antarctica is, paradoxically, a hotbed of volcanic activity.The ice-capped region is home to some 138 volcanoes nestled beneath the snow, 91 of which were discovered as recently as 2017.Whilst most of them are considered dormant or possibly extinct, three have erupted in recent history according to the Smithsonian Institution’s Global Volcanism Program: Penguin Island in 1905; Deception Island in 1970, and Mount Erebus in 1972.The latter of these is arguably Antarctica’s most famous – winning the titles of tallest active volcano on the continent – with its summit standing at 12,448 feet (3,794 metres) – and...

Volcano in Antarctica spews out $6,000-worth of gold each day

The Independent

 A 43-year-old Australian avocado farmer found the fossilized remains of a pterosaur in the Australian outback that scientists now say is a new species of the prehistoric flying reptile which lived alongside the dinosaurs.Kevin Peterson, who reportedly also works as a curator at the Kronosaurus Korner Museum in Richmond, Australia, first discovered bones of the reptile in 2021. Paleontologists announced on Wednesday that the bones found in central Queensland were from a previously unknown species of pterosaur, a giant winged reptile that lived 100 million years ago.Mr Petersen, who has a deep interest in paleontology, found the bones while...

Avocado farmer’s discovery in Australian outback is new species of pterosaur, scientists say

A stark reminder of the dangers of climbing Mount Everest is being revealed as global warming is exposing more corpses than ever on the world’s tallest peak.Five unidentified bodies have recently been removed from the mountain by Nepal’s army, including one skeleton, and a corpse that took 11 hours to free as it was encased in ice up to the head. An estimated 300 people have lost their lives attempting to scale the mountain since the 1920s, and it has attracted particular controversy in recent years because of overcrowding concerns over so-called adventure tourists. At least eight people have lost...

Five bodies retrieved from Mount Everest as melting snow reveals highest peak ‘turning into graveyard’

YAKUTSK, Russia (Reuters) - In Russia's far northeastern Yakutia region, local scientists are performing an autopsy on a wolf frozen in permafrost for around 44,000 years, a find they said was the first of its kind.

Russian scientists conduct autopsy on 44,000-year-old permafrost wolf carcass

New York Post

A crater in Siberia is expanding faster than anticipated due to climate change, scientists have discovered, saying it now poses problems for the surrounding habitat.  

The Batagaika slump, known as the “Gateway to Hell” and located in the freezing Yana Highlands, currently covers about 200 acres of land and can be seen in satellite images captured from space. 

The crater was first detected on images taken in 1991 and has been growing in both width and depth since that time as global warming causes permafrost (frozen soil sediment) to melt. 







Siberian tiger kills man who followed predator’s tracks after...

Siberia’s ‘Gateway to Hell’ is rapidly expanding in size, scientists discover

Each carcass was so big families would have needed to stay in the same place for months to consume it all.

This Is How Neanderthals Managed To Take Down Giant Elephants 125,000 Years Ago

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"There was this gigantic river system": Researchers find ancient lost world deep beneath Antarctic ice.

Giant river system that existed 40 million years ago discovered deep below Antarctic ice

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What does it mean to be selfish? According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the definition of selfish is the lack of consideration for others; someone concerned chiefly with one's own personal profit or pleasure. You know, people who will do for themselves before they will do for others. People who put their own priorities above everyone else. Do you know people who fit that definition? I am sure we all know at least one, I have known man over the years. Let’s learn what Signs are the most likely to be selfish.

The Top 5 Most Selfish Zodiac Signs

Forty million years before the first dinosaurs evolved, a ferocious predator lurked in swampy waters. Its skull alone was over two feet long. It lay in wait, its jaws open wide, preparing to clamp down its interlocking jaws on any prey unwise enough to swim past. Meet Gaiasia jennyae, the swamp creature with a toilet seat-shaped head. Scientists described the newly-discovered fossil in a paper in the journal Nature.

Giant salamander-like creature was a top predator in the ice age before the dinosaurs

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A Bronze Age sunken ship has been found more than a mile below the surface of the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Israel, in what researchers are describing as a "world-class" discovery.

3,300-year-old sunken ship found in Mediterranean at a depth where time has 'frozen,' Israel says

Imagine Antarctica. You’re probably visualizing vast, pristine landscapes of endless snow and frost. But as you read this, an unseen threat might be quietly destabilizing the continent’s icy terrain. Globally, scientists have been keeping a close eye on Antarctica, particularly its ice shelves’ condition. And they just highlighted...

Hidden threat lurking in Antarctica's ice shelves

I don’t know about you but summer is definitely my favorite season and I am definitely a sun worshipper. Living in the Pacific Northwest, we do not see enough of it so when it is here, that is where you will find me. Everything I do I do outside when the sun is out and the weather is warm. I wonder who else feels this way. I wonder what Zodiac Signs love the Sunshine. Want to find out? Let’s do a little research.

3 Zodiac Signs Who Love Sunshine

In terrifying news for the planet, scientists have given an update on the so-called 'Doomsday glacier’ which is rapidly shrinking.The Thwaites Glacier is found in West Antarctica, which measures about the size of Great Britain, and could impact sea levels around the world. Unfortunately, a new study has focused on the warm, salty seawater below the glacier which could result in the glacier melting at an even quicker rate than previously feared. As ice melts in the glacier, the freshwater is replaced by warmer seawater.Should the huge block of floating ice melt entirely, it would cause sea levels to rise...

Scientists issue worrying update about dangerous 'Doomsday' glacier in Antarctica

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Alaskan Glacier Melting Could Reach an Irreversible Tipping Point \"Earlier Than Previously Thought\"

The research found that glacier loss on Juneau Icefield, which straddles the boundary between Alaska and British Columbia, Canada, has increased dramatically since 2010. The team,...

Alaskan Glacier Melting Could Reach an Irreversible Tipping Point "Earlier Than Previously Thought"

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