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DNREC, DNERR collaborate on new national study examining sea level rise in tidal marshes – Delaware.gov

January 12, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter

Jan 12 2017

Article Synopsis – The Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve (DNERR) recently collaborated with 15 other National Estuarine Research Reserves in 13 coastal states on a first-in-the-nation research study that examined the capabilities of tidal marshes to keep pace with sea level rise. The study included a tidal ...

January 11, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter

Jan 11 2017

Article Synopsis – According to a new 14-year study, lakes across the Arctic are melting earlier each year. The study looked at five different regions in the Arctic and gathered information from satellite images of 13,300 lakes between 2000 and 2013. On average, the lakes melted ...

January 10, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter

Jan 10 2017

Article Synopsis – A team of scientists is using airborne ice-penetrating radar to reveal meltwater’s life under the Greenland ice throughout the year. The first results reveal extensive winter water storage beneath the ice. They suggest that glaciers’ response to melting depends not only on the rate ...

January 09, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter

Jan 09 2017

Article Synopsis – Scientists have equipped a female polar bear living on the ice sheet of the Beaufort Sea with a camera to help them understand how polar bears hunt and live with diminishing ice cover. Polar bears are Arctic predators and although they can be adept ...

January 08, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter

Jan 08 2017

Article Synopsis – A new study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences underscores the fact that even greenhouse gases that don’t last long in the atmosphere — methane, for instance — can have centuries-long impacts on the expanding oceans. The researchers used a climate ...

January 07, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter

Jan 07 2017

Article Synopsis – A block of ice roughly the size of Delaware is set to detach from the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica, creating one of the 10 largest icebergs ever recorded.While the break-off itself wouldn’t raise sea levels since icebergs float, the incident could ...

January 06, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter

Jan 06 2017

Article Synopsis – Pine Island Glacier and its nearby twin, Thwaites Glacier, sit at the outer edge of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Like corks in a bottle, the two glaciers block ice flow and keep nearly 10% of the ice sheet from draining into the sea. A ...

January 06, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter

Jan 06 2017

Article Synopsis – Between 1993 and 2011, the annual number of earthquakes caused by gigantic blocks of ice breaking away from Greenland’s glaciers has increased, further evidence of accelerating ice loss. A team of researchers has been studying calving from glaciers that end where the land ...

January 05, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter

Jan 05 2017

Article Synopsis – Rising sea levels and increased flooding events pose a great threat to U.S. military bases across the country. In September of 2016, President Obama ordered defense and military leaders to consider climate change in all aspects of its planning. A survey of 1500 installations, radar sites, ...