Seasonal monsoon rains block key ocean current
A major ocean current connecting the Pacific and Indian oceans slows dramatically during northwest Asia Monsoon season. Now, scientists have figured out why.
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Antarctica's effect on sea level rise in coming centuries
How will Antarctica's melting ice sheet affect sea level rise hundreds of years in the future? Scientists now have a more accurate model to answer this question.
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A meeting of minds: scientists, planners face challenge of rising seas
How can NASA sea-level science be placed in the hands of decision-makers? Some of the answers began to take shape recently at the Chesapeake Bay.
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Time lapse: Watch glaciers rise, fall in thousands of years per second
Glaciers wax and wane over 122,000 years in a new animation from software engineers at NASA-JPL.
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Cold water currently slowing fastest Greenland glacier
Formerly the island's fastest-flowing glacier, Jakobshavn Glacier slowed dramatically when a nearby ocean current cooled, though it's still adding to global sea level rise.
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