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Climate scientists have long tried to explain why ice-age cycles became longer and more intense some 900,000 years ago, switching from 41,000-year cycles to 100,000-year cycles

National Science Foundation- (NSF) funded researchers at the University of Washington have concluded that Antarctica's fast-moving Thwaites Glacier will likely disappear in a matter of centuries, potentially raising sea level by more than a half-a-meter (two feet).

Cutting Specific Atmospheric Pollutants Would Slow Sea Level Rise

It will allow the annual refueling and resupply of two U.S. stations in Antarctica The National Science Foundation​ (NSF) announced it has reached an agreement with a Russian company to charter a diesel icebreaker to create a channel through the sea ice of Antarctica's McMurdo Sound that will allow the annual refueling and resupply of two U.S. stations in Antarctica.NSF has signed a one-year contract, with an option for additional years, with the Murmansk Shipping Company to use the Canadian-built icebreaker, Vladimir Ignatyuk, to create a channel into NSF's McMurdo Station and to escort resupply and refueling ships.The refueling and resupply are critical to the Presidentially mandated mission of the U.S. Antarctic Program-which NSF manages-to maintain an active and influential national presence on the southernmost continent, by supporting a comprehensive science program and operating three year-round research stations. Delivery of fuel and supplies is critical to two of those three stations, in particular: McMurdo, on Ross Island and Amundsen-Scott South Pole.Without the annual resupply mission-and in particular the delivery every year of roughly 5 million gallons of fuel to support each year's activities-the science mission would have to be severely curtailed.Earlier this summer, the Swedish government announced that it would ...