Tag: Melting ice
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…
Could the polar bear live in Antarctica?
The polar bear is endemic to the Arctic. But it is a victim of the melting sea ice and the scarcity of its food. Hence the idea of establishing it…
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…