Tag: Ice
Gas, oil, metals… The controversial battle for Arctic ice
With its navigation bridge painted in white, blue and red and the inscriptions in Cyrillic on its hull, the nationality of the Sibir leaves little room for mystery. On January…
The Arctic ice cap has not finished suffering from global warming
Temperatures are rising. And the ice melts. With the risk of raising the level of the oceans all over the world. This is why researchers continue to try to learn…
Icemageddon: unprecedented ice storms cripple Alaska
After facing record heat and torrential rains in December, Alaska suffers a series of particularly violent winter storms: wind and ice crippled this US state this week. In question, fluctuations…
Pluto: the dynamics of nitrogen ice in the Sputnik plain finally explained?
Studying Sputnik Planitia, a large impact crater filled with ice of nitrogen, methane and carbon monoxide, the New Horizons probe observed polygonal shapes separated by small hollows on the surface…
Why do ice cubes stick to my fingers?
Ice cubes sometimes stick to your fingers and when they do, it can be particularly unpleasant. In question, a physical phenomenon ultimately very simple. You will also be interested It…
The Little Ice Age was caused by a warming
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (United States) reconstructed sea surface temperatures showing the effects of the meridional overturning circulation of the Atlantic, the Amoc, during the period…
Researchers lower the freezing point of water to -44 ° C
Pure water normally freezes at 0 ° C. But under certain conditions, the melting temperature can be significantly lowered. This ice nucleation process is essential in weather phenomena such as…
Mars: large quantities of water discovered under the largest canyon in the solar system
There should be no water on the surface of Mars at the equator, and very little there just below that surface. And yet the instruments of the Exomars mission say…
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…
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…