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Greenland's Undercut Glaciers Melting Faster than Thought
Jul 24, 2015 (JPL)
Greenland's glaciers flowing into the ocean are grounded deeper below sea level than previously measured, allowing intruding ocean water to badly undercut the g...
Cool summer of 2013 boosted Arctic sea ice
Jul 21, 2015 (SPX)
The volume of Arctic sea ice increased by a third after the summer of 2013 as the unusually cool air temperatures prevented the ice from melting, according to U...
New Ice Age may begin by 2030
Jul 20, 2015 (SPX)
The arrival of intense cold similar to the one raged during the "Little Ice Age", which froze the world during the XVII century and in the beginning of the XVII...
Arctic nations bar commercial fishing around North Pole
Jul 16, 2015 (AFP)
Nations with territory in the Arctic on Thursday agreed to ban unregulated fishing in the rapidly melting international waters around the North Pole, amid fears...
Study predicting 'mini ice age' is being second-guessed
Jul 14, 2015 (UPI)
Last week, few people -- even inside academic circles -- had heard of Valentina Zharkova, a professor of mathematics at Northumbria University in England. This ...
Study finds high geothermal heating beneath West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Jul 14, 2015 (SPX)
The amount of heat flowing toward the base of the West Antarctic ice sheet from geothermal sources deep within the Earth is surprisingly high, according to a ne...
Strong geothermal heating measured beneath West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Jul 10, 2015 (UPI)
A surprisingly high amount of geothermal heating has been measured underneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet by researchers at the University of California, Santa...
Has US Already Lost in the Arctic
Jul 08, 2015 (Sputnik)
The United States is totally unprepared to take part in the mounting competition for the riches of the Arctic as it lacks the primary means to do that, namely i...
Soil water, microbes influence carbon in world's coldest desert
Jul 01, 2015 (SPX)
Soil water and microbes' respiration contribute to fluctuations of carbon dioxide in the world's coldest desert, where climate change is expected to increase un...
Retreating sea ice linked to changes in ocean circulation
Jul 01, 2015 (SPX)
Retreating sea ice in the Iceland and Greenland Seas may be changing the circulation of warm and cold water in the Atlantic Ocean, and could ultimately impact t...
First species of yeti crab found in Antarctica
Jun 28, 2015 (SPX)
The first species of Yeti Crab from hydrothermal vent systems of the East Scotia Ridge in the Southern Ocean, Antarctica, has been described in a study publishe...
Sudden shift in 'forcing' led to demise of Laurentide ice sheet
Jun 28, 2015 (SPX)
A new study has found that the massive Laurentide ice sheet that covered Canada during the last ice age initially began shrinking through calving of icebergs, a...
Backward-moving glacier helps scientists explain glacial earthquakes
Jun 28, 2015 (SPX)
The relentless flow of a glacier may seem unstoppable, but a team of UK and US researchers have shown that during some calving events - when an iceberg breaks o...
Alaska glaciers make large contributions to global sea level rise
Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)
Alaska's melting glaciers are adding enough water to the Earth's oceans to cover the state of Alaska with a 1-foot thick layer of water every seven years, a new...
Arctic Ocean rapidly becoming more corrosive to marine species
Jun 18, 2015 (SPX)
New research by NOAA, University of Alaska, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the journal Oceanography shows that surface waters of the Chukchi and Be...
Fossils Explain How Life Coped During Snowball Earth
Jun 16, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers have discovered what they think are fossils of a unique red algae species that lived about 650 million years ago during a brief respite between some...
Boreal peatlands not a global warming time bomb
Jun 11, 2015 (SPX)
To some scientists studying climate change, boreal peatlands are considered a potential ticking time bomb. With huge stores of carbon in peat, the fear is that ...
Ice sheet collapse triggered ancient sea level peak
Jun 11, 2015 (SPX)
An international team of scientists has found a dramatic ice sheet collapse at the end of the ice age before last caused widespread climate changes and led to a...
Climate peril stirring in permafrost, experts tell UN
Jun 09, 2015 (AFP)
Scientists on Tuesday called for action to defuse a time bomb of Arctic greenhouse gas as negotiators at UN talks grappled over a climate rescue pact. About 1,5...
The ebb and flow of Greenland's glaciers
Jun 05, 2015 (SPX)
In northwestern Greenland, glaciers flow from the main ice sheet to the ocean in see-sawing seasonal patterns. The ice generally flows faster in the summer than...
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