Ice Instability

Researchers find that the East Antarctic ice sheet's history of instability may contribute to global sea level rise. Findings featured in December Nature. Cover images by G&G palynologist Sophie Warny.

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RESEARCH NEWS

^{Multiple episodes of extensive marine anoxia linked to global warming and continental
weathering following the latest Permian mass extinction}

^{Neodymium sotope ratios and a positive d13C excursion}

^{EARLY EARTH: PRIMORDIAL LIGHT OXYGEN POCKETS}

^{THE GERMANS TORPEDOED A SHIP DURING WORLD WAR II. THE WRECK IS NOW REVEALING SECRETS
ABOUT UNDERWATER MUDSLIDES}

^{EXTREME MELT SEASON LEADS TO DECADE-LONG ECOSYSTEM CHANGES IN ANTARCTICA'S DRY VALLEYS}

^{MONSOONAL UPWELLING IN THE WESTERN ARABIAN SEA SINCE THE MIDDLE MIOCENE}

^{A Bottom-Driven Mechanism for Distributed Faulting in the Gulf of California Rift}

^{River-plume sedimentation and 210Pb/7Be seabed delivery on the Mississippi River delta
front}