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Earth as sponge? It has absorbed enough water to slow sea level rise
Posted by Christian Science Monitor: Lonnie Shekhtman on February 17th, 2016
Christian Science Monitor: Several regions of Earth that have been battered by rain and floods in the last decade have absorbed enough water to slow global sea level rise by about 20 percent over that time period, scientists say.
And, at least for now, this phenomenon has offset the impact of melting ice sheets, glaciers, and pumping of too much groundwater for irrigation, which also contributes to sea level rise when the water is sprayed on plants, then evaporates into the atmosphere and precipitates back into the ocean...
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NASA says Antarctica is actually gaining ice. Does this mean climate fine?
Posted by Christian Science Monitor: Lonnie Shekhtman on November 1st, 2015
Christian Science Monitor: A new NASA study found that Antarctica has been adding more ice than it's been losing, challenging other research, including that of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, that concludes that Earth’s southern continent is losing land ice overall.
In a paper published in the Journal of Glaciology on Friday, researchers from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, the University of Maryland in College Park, and the engineering firm Sigma Space Corporation offer a new analysis of satellite...