Earth Sciences

Global sea level rise: NASA mission takes stock of Earth's melting land ice

9 Feb 2012

In the first comprehensive satellite study of its kind, researchers have used NASA data to calculate how much Earth's melting land ice is adding to global sea level rise. Using satellite measurements from the NASA/German Aerospace Center Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), the researchers measured ice loss in all of Earth's land ice between 2003 and 2010, with particular emphasis on ...

Earth losing roughly 150 billion tons of ice to oceans annually

9 Feb 2012

London, Feb 9 (ANI): Greenland, Antarctica and global glaciers and ice caps lost roughly 8 times the volume of Lake Erie from 2003-2010, a new study has revealed.

NASA Mission Takes Stock of Earth's Melting Land Ice

8 Feb 2012

In the first comprehensive satellite study of its kind, a University of Colorado at Boulder-led team used NASA data to calculate how much Earth's melting land ice is adding to global sea level rise.