Magazine
January-February 2002
January-February 2002
Volume: 90 Number: 1
These sculpted icebergs, slowly melting as they float through the Southern Ocean, provide a quiet reminder that the ice covering Antarctica is not a static mass. Should the vast ice sheet now overlaying western Antarctica disappear, sea level would rise some six meters, flooding the world's coastlines. To better gauge the risk of such a disaster, European geologists have carefully studied the collapse of a similar ice sheet that blanketed the Barents Sea during the last ice age. In "The Eurasian Arctic During the Last Ice Age," Martin J. Siegert, Julian A. Dowdeswell, John-Inge Svendsen and Anders Elverhøi summarize the results of those research efforts. (Photograph by David Vaughan/Science Photo Library.)
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Tides and the Biosphere of Europa
Richard Greenberg
Astronomy
A liquid-water ocean beneath a thin crust of ice may offer several habitats for the evolution of life on one of Jupiter's moons
Probing the Depths of Crater Lake
Douglas Larson
Environment
During much of its 100 years of National Park status, this national treasure saw little scientific study, despite significant environmental threats
Newborn Screening for Metabolic Diseases
David Millington
Medicine
The second generation of newborn screening techniques can detect many more diseases, allowing the prevention of brain damage and death
The Eurasian Arctic During the Last Ice Age
Martin Siegert, Julian Dowdeswell, John-Inge Svendsen
Physics
A vast ice sheet once covered the Barents Sea. Its sudden disappearance 100 centuries ago provides a lesson about western Antarctica today
