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8/11/2010 Research just published in the journal Science, refutes the premise that melting ice at the poles might allow more open water that could absorb carbon dioxide, one of the major compounds implicated in global warming. More
7/9/2010 NASA-funded researchers monitoring Greenland's Jakobshavn Isbrae glacier report that a 7-square-kilometer (2.7 square-mile) section of the glacier broke up on July 6 and 7. The chunk is roughly one-eighth the size of Manhattan. More
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