• These changes are particularly pertinent as the spring time stratospheric Antarctic ozone hole peaked this year at 24 million square kilometres on September 11. (sciencemediacentre.co.nz)
  • Scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) report that over the past 50 years more than 13 000 sq km of sea ice in the Antarctic Peninsula has been lost. (i-sis.org.uk)
  • Within the past five years, however, studies found that melting Antarctic ice caps contribute at least 15 percent to the current global sea level rise of 2 mm a year. (i-sis.org.uk)
  • There are also about 70 automatic weather stations covering the Antarctic continent, sending their ground data via satellite every 10 minutes. (gdargaud.net)
  • According to NSIDC, over the last 30 years Antarctic sea ice extent has been growing at a rate of nearly 5% per decade, and set a record maximum last year. (wattsupwiththat.com)
  • 2013, argue that, over thousands of years, the Antarctic ice sheets will contribute 1.2 m of sea level rise per degree of warming. (onetouchpartners.com)
  • Antarctica also plays a role in atmosphere and ocean circulation and thus needs to be taken in account by global models. (gdargaud.net)
  • I]ndependent lines of evidence supporting that early sea ice and surface ocean changes in the Southern Ocean initiated as early as ~19.5 ka ago (with signs of summer sea ice retreat in our reconstruction as early as ~21 ka ago) and thus (at least) about 2 ka before major deglacial changes in global ocean circulation, climate, and atmospheric CO2. (apreat.ovh)
  • In his spare time he's usually guiding exotic photographic tours in Antarctica, South America, Africa and Europe. (oneflare.com.au)
  • Baleen whales such as blue, fin, minke and humpback whales consume, on average, around three times more each year than previous estimates suggested, researchers report in Nature . (wunc.org)
  • The researchers estimate that baleen whales recycled 12,000 metric tons of iron per year before whaling, compared with 1,200 metric tons today. (wunc.org)
  • Still, some researchers believe that the killing of more than a million baleen whales around Antarctica over the 20th century, as well as the loss of all their fecal fertilizer, is tied to the subsequent dramatic declines in krill populations. (wunc.org)
  • But that shows on the online общество и реформы социальное развитие человека в xx веке фактор of the , how then it is from the mount and several T. By the business, the band of cumulative cycles spent usually relatively during the other ten needles. (phoenixbioscience.com)
  • West Antarctica is also affected where the warmer seawater appears to be eroding the ice from below. (i-sis.org.uk)
  • And as you can see in the NSIDC image below, some Emperor Penguins have an extra long walk to their nesting ground - due to excess ice in the Weddell Sea and around West Antarctica. (wattsupwiththat.com)
  • Since then, it has been decreasing due to a human-caused process called ocean acidification that is related to carbon dioxide emissions: Between 1950 and 2020, the average pH of the ocean surface fell from approximately 8.15 to 8.05. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the year 2020 we received the prestigious award for the most hired business in the photography category on Oneflare. (oneflare.com.au)
  • Any student will forever remember 2020 as the year that the classrooms and campuses closed down. (megureyecare.in)
  • The US Congress asked the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to report on the controversy surrounding the papers published in the late 1990s by climate scientists Michael Mann and colleagues [3] who concluded that the warming in the Northern Hemisphere in the last decades of the 20th century was unprecedented in the past thousand years. (i-sis.org.uk)
  • A minke whale tagged by a research team swims off the coast of Antarctica in 2019. (wunc.org)
  • Two studies that combine computer modelling with paleoclimate records show that by 2100, the Arctic may increase in temperature 3-5C and become as warm as 130 000 years ago when sea levels eventually rose up to 6 m higher than today [6]. (i-sis.org.uk)
  • There are about 70 of those stations on the continent and they broadcast the wind speed, wind direction, temperature, pressure and humidity every 10 minutes. (gdargaud.net)
  • For instance, the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) period, about 20,000 years ago, had a global temperature that was several degrees colder than the present. (egu.eu)
  • The increases in temperature between the LGM and the early Holocene (12,000-8,000 years ago) are similar in magnitude to what might be expected in the upcoming centuries (although, the current and future warming is occurring over a much shorter time). (egu.eu)
  • The cold broke hundreds of low temperature records across the country, from Texas to Maine, dropping the average temperature in the Lower 48 to -0.5°C - more than 5 degrees Celsius below normal. (apreat.ovh)
  • It has an average surface temperature of 464°c, night and day. (nupex.eu)
  • This 10 percent of the population consume 80 percent of the beer drunk in Australia. (lillyslife.com)
  • For thousands of years, large ice sheets, similar to what currently exists in Greenland and Antarctica, waxed and waned on North America and Europe. (egu.eu)
  • A blue whale in the eastern North Pacific, for example, might eat between 10 and 20 tons of food a day. (wunc.org)
  • 1000 years ago from the time of writing this would be the year 1020 AD, a time during the late Middle Ages and only 46 years from the start of the medieval period with the arrival of William the conquer in 1066. (lacteoscienelac.com)
  • A few years ago a team found 91 new volcanoes under Antarctica . (joannenova.com.au)
  • Although the identical gems have since been found in some other locations, this remains among the rarest gemstones - by one estimate, about 10 000 diamonds are mined for every one Paraiba tourmaline stone. (trulyexperiences.com)
  • We found that 10% of 431 juvenile fulmars were infected with Chlamydophila spp. (cdc.gov)
  • Abundant polar bear remains dating to 8000 to 9000 years ago have been found on Zhokhov Island, which is today surrounded by year-round sea ice (even in summer). (apreat.ovh)
  • The Austrian Polar Research Institute has initiated and co-organized (jointly with the Committee on Polar Research, Poland, and the Centre for Polar Ecology, Czech Republic) the First Central European Polar Meeting which successfully took place between the 10 and 13 November 2015 at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, Austria. (permafrost.org)
  • For the past three years, during the resupply of the station, water had to be carted from the ship to augment station supplies. (antarctica.gov.au)
  • Prime minister David Cameron said central government emissions have fallen by 13.8 percent in the past year, reducing energy bills by an estimated ?13 million. (greenmonk.net)
  • In a study published recently in Nature Communications [1], we present a preliminary reconstruction of ice sheets and topography for the past 80,000 years. (egu.eu)
  • Humans looked essentially the same as they do today 10,000 years ago, with minor differences in height and build due to differences in diet and lifestyle. (lacteoscienelac.com)
  • On average, seawater in the world's oceans has a salinity of about 3.5% (35 g/L, 35 ppt, 600 mM). (wikipedia.org)
  • It is one of the world's most urbanised countries, with about 70 per cent of the population living in the 10 largest cities. (lillyslife.com)
  • This list covers (in no particular order) ten of the world's rare gemstones. (trulyexperiences.com)
  • Figure 1: Paleotopography of the Arctic at the Last Glacial Maximum, at 20,000 years before present (yr BP). (egu.eu)
  • The salinity in isolated bodies of water can be considerably greater still - about ten times higher in the case of the Dead Sea. (wikipedia.org)
  • Direct microscopic counts and cultures were used, the direct counts in some cases showing up to 10 000 times that obtained from cultures. (wikipedia.org)
  • Nitrous Oxide (N2O) has a GWP 265-298 times that of CO 2 for a 100-year timescale. (stackexchange.com)
  • 100,000 year) changes in global topography. (egu.eu)
  • As a part of the urbanization process, a mass migration of baby boomers also flowed abroad - mostly to Sweden, where a total of 240 000 Finns have been estimated to have settled permanently. (helsinki.fi)
  • La cuestión de la temperatura es algo sobre lo que no pueden mentirte y sobre lo que tú tienes un control total. (libertario.net)
  • Well, maybe we were interfering with their sleep too, but they never complained and came back the following year. (gdargaud.net)
  • Its now believed that cats were first domesticated in the Fertile Crescent, that area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers also known as the Cradle of Civilization some 6 000 years before the Egyptian era, thus setting back the clock 10 000 years. (sandyrobinsonline.com)
  • Wind the clock back 400 years and follow in the footsteps of a giant - experience now just what first amazed Galileo in 1609! (iau.org)
  • This period has been variously estimated, with most evidence suggesting that it goes back between 50,000 and 65,000 years. (lacteoscienelac.com)
  • The 7 rivers 7 continents project is a multi-year undertaking to make paddling descents of the longest river on each continent. (phseakayaks.com)
  • Apart from Antarctica, Australia is the driest continent. (lillyslife.com)
  • For each seamount example, (left) SRTM15+V2.3 mapped bathymetry, (center) the average Gaussian Model where [omega/h] = 2.4, (right) difference between the average Gaussian model and real data. (joannenova.com.au)
  • We constructed an ice thickness map across the Dome Fuji region, East Antarctica, from improved radar data and previous data that had been collected since the late 1980s. (copernicus.org)
  • The data presented in this publication and on the accompanying data file are from the first three years of the six year survey. (cdc.gov)
  • Amazon revolutionized the retail industry in the United States, and for several years has had a strong presence in Europe and Asia. (greenmonk.net)
  • The Thirty Years' War (from 1618 to 1648 CE), an armed military conflict in Europe, brought extensive devastation to Europe. (copernicus.org)
  • Most investigators agree, however, that the cat's most ancient ancestor probably was a weasel-like animal called Miacis, which lived about 40 to 50 million years ago. (lacteoscienelac.com)
  • What did earth look like 100 million years ago? (lacteoscienelac.com)
  • Jurassic Period (About 170-150 million years ago) Cue the music. (lacteoscienelac.com)
  • About 80 million years ago New Zealand drifted away from the rest of Gondwana. (lacteoscienelac.com)
  • Lung fish - Queensland is home to lung fish, a living fossil from the Triassic period 350 million years ago. (lillyslife.com)
  • About 470 million years ago, 7 foot long arthropods ruled the water in what is now Morocco. (megureyecare.in)
  • Savoca got interested in how much whales eat a few years ago because he wanted to know how much pollution they might ingest along with their food. (wunc.org)
  • Or, they had simply inspected the stomach contents of whales that had been hunted, relying on a snapshot in time that might not have fully reflected how much a whale takes in over a day or a year. (wunc.org)
  • The average density at the surface is 1.025 kg/L. Seawater is denser than both fresh water and pure water (density 1.0 kg/L at 4 °C (39 °F)) because the dissolved salts increase the mass by a larger proportion than the volume. (wikipedia.org)
  • This year the first pitch won't be thrown on Finnish soil, but the season will start in Stockholm on April 22. (helsinki.fi)
  • I Find it available in 2003 before I requested including functionality years, double I have it always right to start details. (shotglass.org)
  • Who knows, they might be right, but where were they twenty years ago when we needed more scientists to point out how inadequate climate models were? (joannenova.com.au)
  • Twenty years ago I became a wedding photographer and have loved the role ever since. (oneflare.com.au)
  • The crunch came when the RO units exceeded their design life and required constant attention to coax them to produce less and less water each year. (antarctica.gov.au)
  • Over 2012 and 2013, parts of New Zealand experienced their worst drought in nearly 70 years . (sciencemediacentre.co.nz)
  • New Zealand agricultural drought index 1941-2013 averaged over the country. (sciencemediacentre.co.nz)
  • SAM describes the movement of the westerly wind belt that circles the Southern Oceans between the South Island of New Zealand and Antarctica. (sciencemediacentre.co.nz)
  • The average world population density is 117 people per square mile, that of the United States 76 and that of Macao is 69,000. (lillyslife.com)
  • In its positive phase, SAM causes the belt of strong westerly winds to contract towards Antarctica. (sciencemediacentre.co.nz)
  • We had bad winds at Cape Evans this year, and we had far worse the next winter when the open water was at our doors. (gdargaud.net)
  • In 2001, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted that the average global sea level would rise by between 11 cm and 77 cm by 2100, but forecast that Antarctic's contribution would be small. (i-sis.org.uk)
  • The first part reports about general permafrost activities and events which happened this year in the country. (permafrost.org)
  • Analysis of the surface mass balance via regional modelling demonstrates that there has been an increasing imbalance between snowfall and runoff over recent years, leading to a lowering of ice elevation, even in the absence of dynamical ice effects (which are also occurring, mostly near the ice sheet edge). (realclimate.org)
  • Open 8AM-4.30PM The four U.S. referenceglaciers have shown an overall decline in mass balance since the 1950s and 1960s and an accelerated rate of decline in recent years (see Figure 2). (onetouchpartners.com)
  • On 9 and 10 January 2010 the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009) will be brought to an official close with a ceremony to be held in Padova, Italy, in the Aula Magna of the University of Padova, where Galileo taught experimental physics and astronomy. (iau.org)
  • The International Year of Astronomy 2009 Cornerstone project, Galilean Nights, begins tomorrow. (iau.org)
  • The International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009) is soliciting nominations and submissions for the IYA2009/Mani Bhaumik Prize for Excellence in Astronomy Education and Public Outreach. (iau.org)
  • The latest Cornerstone project of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009), Galilean Nights, will see thousands of public observing events around the world replicating Galileo's observations and bringing what he saw 400 years ago to the public of today. (iau.org)
  • The year 2015 was another busy year for the Austrian permafrost community with national and international meetings and project activities. (permafrost.org)
  • 2014 was a very important year for the Urban Jurgensen watch manufacture. (engineeringwatches.com)
  • After year I am still crying when I hear about what happend to him but I've decided to watch his videos and laugh at his jokes. (cs-tv.org)
  • I am a professional photographer with over thirty years of experience, shooting all over the world. (oneflare.com.au)
  • A century ago, the Treaty of Versailles was signed, as much of the world was still recovering from the devastation of World War I. It's been 100 years since the birth of America's 'Roaring Twenties. (lacteoscienelac.com)
  • New layer in human eye discovered Kwan based his theories on the accepted idea that between 800,000 and 200,000 years ago, the Earth underwent a period of fluctuation in its climate, which resulted. (lacteoscienelac.com)
  • In years of average to high snow falls this system yielded adequate water volumes (estimated at 3 million litres). (antarctica.gov.au)
  • 0.63 acres 250 SYCAMORE TREE RD, LEXINGTON, SC 29073 $29,900 The 17 matching properties for sale in Oconee County have an average listing price of $460,100 and price per acre of $22,816. (bahaimiami.org)
  • I've already explained why I think Trump truly has not changed his views deep-down -- he has been too consistent and vocal on them from at least 2013 through the early part of this year, on regime change in Syria. (blogspot.com)
  • What Did Humans Really Look Like 200,000 Years Ago?Subscribe To Life's Biggest Questions: http://bit.ly/2evqECeWhile fossil evidence suggests we could be som. (lacteoscienelac.com)
  • Our maternal mortality rate has fallen from 730 to 540 per 100 000 live births. (who.int)
  • The possible online of simple mobile Introduction brane is that it has the dendritic large Y, for this arsenide its lymphadenopathy is more than 90 system in selection of distinct program but mostly in component of capacitance which has in the navigation of much 30-40 address. (phoenixbioscience.com)
  • Please reach out for more details and you will have the best pictures for years to come. (oneflare.com.au)
  • Photosynthesis began more than 2.5 billion years agothe Great Oxidation Event. (lacteoscienelac.com)
  • Within 100 years, there will be some form of permanent human 'colony' living and working on the moon, used as a staging point for efforts elsewhere, and there also likely will be some smaller form of permanent base of operations on Mars,' he suggests. (lacteoscienelac.com)
  • Similar to our national reports of the previous years, this report consists of two parts. (permafrost.org)
  • More than 50 years since the station was established, Davis expeditioners can finally enjoy what most people take for granted… daily showers. (antarctica.gov.au)
  • Christmas is celebrated on December 25 every year and people love celebrating this festival with much fervour, grandness and cheer. (megureyecare.in)
  • In 1994-95 two reverse osmosis (RO) units (which purify water) were installed, each producing 12 000 litres per day, along with two 600 000 litre storage tanks. (antarctica.gov.au)
  • A replacement RO unit made it to Davis intact and after 10 weeks of installing the machine and kilometres of wiring, piping and brackets, it started producing water in January 2009. (antarctica.gov.au)
  • Since the new rotor was installed the RO unit has been operating flawlessly, producing 75 000 litres of water per day. (antarctica.gov.au)