Sentences with phrase «how ancient ice»

Studying ice cores shows how ancient ice contains records of Earth's past climate.

Not exact matches

Glorious shots illustrate the tributaries of an ancient river system and show how fields of water ice even now stretch out from the Martian south pole.

Heat trapping greenhouse - gas emissions are the obvious culprit, since they've increased dramatically over that same 50 years, but scientists prefer hard evidence to presumption, so a team from the British Antarctic Survey has been drilling into ancient ice to see how the current warming stacks up against what happened in the ancient past.

To see how fast sea level may rise in the future, Carlson and his team looked to the ancient Laurentide ice sheet, which stretched as far south as Ohio and New York City during at the peak of the last Ice Age 20,000 years aice sheet, which stretched as far south as Ohio and New York City during at the peak of the last Ice Age 20,000 years aIce Age 20,000 years ago.

River flooding boosts carbon emissions, six new species of Chinese dragon millipedes discovered, how ancient animals adapted to climate change, maths tell palaeontologists where to find fossils, and the Arctic Ocean was ice - free ten million years ago.