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Study: Glass microspheres won’t save Arctic sea ice

By Rod Boyce | Geophysical Institute on Oct 9, 2022   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Study: Glass microspheres won’t save Arctic sea ice

A proposal to cover Arctic sea ice with layers of tiny hollow glass spheres about the thickness of one human hair would actually accelerate sea-ice loss and warm the climate rather than creating thick ice and lowering the temperature as proponents claim. Sea ice, by reflecting the majority of the sun’s energy back to space, […]

Fire and Ice: Exploding Comet May Have Destroyed Paleolithic Settlement

By GI Staff on Apr 10, 2020   Featured, Science/Education, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Fire and Ice: Exploding Comet May Have Destroyed Paleolithic Settlement

  New analysis of materials from an archeological site in Syria suggests it may be the only human settlement we know about that was destroyed by pieces of an exploding comet. Abu Hureyra, an ancient mound site, is covered by the waters of Lake Assad, created when the Tabqa Dam was completed in 1974. In […]

Redoubt’s Big Impact 30 Years Ago

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Dec 12, 2019   Featured, Science/Education, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Redoubt’s Big Impact 30 Years Ago

On Dec. 15, 1989, a pilot who had flown a 747 passenger jet all the way from Amsterdam was looking forward to landing in Anchorage. There, he would take a short break before continuing to Tokyo. Descending over Southcentral Alaska, he and his co-pilot saw what looked like an inky storm cloud ahead. Flying into […]

A Powdery Idea to Reduce Sea-Ice Loss

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on May 6, 2019   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

A Powdery Idea to Reduce Sea-Ice Loss

  A team of researchers has a plan to slow the melting of northern sea ice using a sand-like substance. Leslie Field is an inventor trained in chemical and electrical engineering who lectures at Stanford University in California. She and her team-member Alex Sholtz of the non-profit group Ice911 recently presented at the University of […]



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