Tag: ice cap
When glaciers covered Namibia
If the word “fjord” immediately makes us think of Norway, a team of geologists has just found traces of these great valleys carved by glaciers in a completely different region…
The Antarctic ice sheet could collapse much sooner than previously thought
Hoping to better understand what lies in store for Antarctica in the years to come, researchers have once again questioned the past. Their goal: to reveal how ice reacted to…
Fjords in Namibia: when glaciers covered this now arid part of the world
If the word “fjord” immediately makes us think of Norway, a team of geologists has just found traces of these great valleys carved by glaciers in a completely different region…
In the heart of the ice, the secrets of the climate
The analysis of the ice obtained by coring allows to reconstruct the variations of the temperature and the chemical composition of theatmosphere in the past, and that until approximately 400,000…
Antarctica could collapse in just a decade
In recent years, more and more icebergs seem to be breaking out of Antarctica. It has happened in the past. And researchers fear this is a sign that a shift…
The Arctic Ocean has been warming for longer than previously thought
To explain the speed with which the Arctic seems to want to warm up, scientists cite, among other things, a phenomenon they have called Atlanticification. A phenomenon by which the…