by Al Gore, reposted from the Climate Reality Project After crossing the legendary Drake Passage, we came in sight of the Antarctic continent. It is a majestic, otherworldly place. The Antarctic Peninsula, which juts northward toward South America, is lined with ice-covered mountains and surrounded by abundant wildlife in the sea. But even on this [...]

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From Antarctica to Bangladesh: The Story of Rising Seas

After crossing the legendary Drake Passage, we came in sight of the Antarctic continent. It is a majestic, otherworldly place. The Antarctic Peninsula, which juts northward toward South America, is lined with ice-covered mountains and surrounded by ...

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Bowermaster's Adventures: Paradise Harbor, Antarctica

Filed under: Activism, Arts and Culture, Paddling, AntarcticaParadise Harbor -- Its common knowledge among Antarctic veterans that no two days here look or feel alike. Ever. The reality is that no quarter hour looks alike. Or can be predicted, no matter how many months or years you've spent here. We spent the night in a small, protected bay about 400 miles down the coastline of the Antarctic Peninsula. The tricky thing about sailing a small...

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Fire and ice: Dragon rises out of the water in frozen Antarctic wilderness...

The majestic Antarctic landscape never fails to amaze. But the awe-inspiring wilderness offered up an unusual display for one photographer - in the shape of a dragon carved into an iceberg. Discovered deep in the Antarctic Peninsula near Peterman Island ...

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Penguins provide window into shifting Antarctic ecosystem

10:33 a.m., Jan. 18, 2012--What’s the best way to study the Antarctic’s ecosystem? Follow the penguins. Scientists are tracking penguins on land, under the sea, and even from space to unravel the environmental dynamics in the West Antarctic Peninsula ...

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Pictures on a shelf

By torikfauzi on | From musicinstrumentfun.co.cc

It makes it easy to rearrange the pictures when you want a different look. Files and various associated things on the bottom shelf. The fiction shelf is organised alphabetically by author’s last name. No, it’s Only Fools and Horses’ star Sir David Jason on a Deli-copter Left to rot in a Taliban hell hole, a British Army major was put in Afghan jail on false charges. You can also determine where you would like the first shelf to be by adjusting the height. The definition of what a shelf is has...Read Full Story

It's Bottoms Up For Antarctic Ice Sheets

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Robin E. Bell/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory The ice surface of Antarctica, looking toward the Gamburtsev Mountains and Dome A. Deep below the surface here, new ice is forming around the mountains and pushing upward. The black flags in the distance mark the edge of the runway for research aircraft studying the area. You can think of Antarctica as an amazing layer cake, made from millions of layers of snow that gradually turns to ice. But a new study finds that's not always the case. Some of...Read Full Story

Huge Asteroid will hit Antarctica in 2012

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University of British Columbia Professor published an on-line article that projected an 800m asteroid would hit Antarctica in the fall of 2012. His article was on the phas.ubc.ca website for 2 days before it abruptly disappeared. The initial data was gathered by The Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Sub millimeter Telescope (BLAST) at McMurdo Station, Antarctica. The theorized asteroid was then tracked by Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Mauna Kea, which (with the Adaptive Optics Bonnette...Read Full Story

Shattered Antarctic ice bridge fuels fear of global warming

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An ice bridge which held a vast Antarctic ice shelf in place shattered on Saturday, raising fears about global warming. Scientists are concerned that greater collapses will now occur in the Antarctic Peninsula. Satellite images from the European Space Agency show that a 25-mile-long strip of ice believed to pin the Wilkins Ice Shelf in place had splintered at its narrowest point, about 500 metres wide. The Wilkins ice shelf has snapped for the first time, causing consternation at the...Read Full Story

Climate change melts Antarctic ice shelves: USGS

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Climate change is melting the floating ice shelves along the Antarctic Peninsula, giving scientists a preview of what could happen if other ice shelves around the southern continent disappear, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said on Monday. The ice has retreated so far from the land mass that Charcot Island, which has long been connected to the peninsula by an ice bridge, emerged as a real island again last year, a USGS scientist said. "This is the first time since...Read Full Story

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The Wilkins Ice Shelf is a huge glacier on the western Antarctic Peninsula. Scientists fear that global climate change is causing the ice shelf to break up and melt.

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