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Massive amounts of fresh water, glacial melt pouring into Gulf of Alaska

Mar 23, 2015 (SPX)

Incessant mountain rain, snow and melting glaciers in a comparatively small region of land that hugs the southern Alaska coast and empties fresh water into the ...

Preparing For Operation IceBridge Arctic 2015

Mar 22, 2015 (SPX)

NASA's C-130 aircraft, one of the fleet of aircraft maintained by Wallops Flight Facility, is almost ready for the upcoming Operation IceBridge Arctic 2015 camp...

2015 Arctic Sea Ice Maximum Annual Extent Is Lowest On Record

Mar 22, 2015 (SPX)

The sea ice cap of the Arctic appeared to reach its annual maximum winter extent on Feb. 25, according to data from the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Dat...

Past warming increased snowfall on Antarctica, affecting global sea level

Mar 20, 2015 (SPX)

A new study confirms that snowfall in Antarctica will increase significantly as the planet warms, offsetting future sea level rise from other sources - but the ...

Blue blood on ice - How an Antarctic octopus survives the cold

Mar 20, 2015 (SPX)

An Antarctic octopus that lives in ice-cold water uses an unique strategy to transport oxygen in its blood, according to research published in Frontiers in Zool...

In climatic tug of war, carbon released from thawing permafrost wins handily

Mar 19, 2015 (SPX)

There's a carbon showdown brewing in the Arctic as Earth's climate changes. On one side, thawing permafrost could release enormous amounts of long-frozen carbon...

First global review on the status, future of Arctic marine mammals

Mar 19, 2015 (SPX)

For Arctic marine mammals, the future is especially uncertain. Loss of sea ice and warming temperatures are shifting already fragile Northern ecosystems. The pr...

Global warming brings more snow to Antarctica

Mar 17, 2015 (SPX)

"Warmer air transports more moisture and hence produces more precipitation - in cold Antarctica this takes the form of snowfall," lead author Katja Frieler from...

East Antarctica melting could be explained by oceanic gateways

Mar 17, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin's Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) in the Jackson School of Geosciences have discovered two seafloor gateways th...

Ponds are disappearing in the Arctic

Mar 16, 2015 (SPX)

Ponds in the Arctic tundra are shrinking and slowly disappearing, according to a new study by University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) researchers. More than 2,800...

Friction means Antarctic glaciers more sensitive to climate change

Mar 16, 2015 (SPX)

One of the biggest unknowns in understanding the effects of climate change today is the melting rate of glacial ice in Antarctica. Scientists agree rising atmos...

More giant craters spotted in Russia's far north

Mar 12, 2015 (AFP)

Russian scientists have now discovered seven giant craters in remote Siberia, a geologist told AFP on Thursday, adding that the mysterious phenomenon was believ...

Methane in Arctic lake traced to groundwater from seasonal thawing

Mar 11, 2015 (SPX)

Global warming may ramp up the flow of methane from groundwater into Arctic lakes, allowing more of the potent greenhouse gas to bubble out into the atmosphere,...

Eastern, High Arctic regain sea ice during cold winter

Mar 11, 2015 (UPI)

While sea ice around the globe nears record lows, the frozen ocean water in the Eastern and High Arctic has regained coverage and thickness at near-normal level...

Permafrost's turn of the microbes

Mar 06, 2015 (SPX)

As the Arctic warms, tons of carbon locked away in Arctic tundra will be transformed into the powerful greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane, but scientis...

Genetics reveals where emperor penguins survived the last ice age

Mar 05, 2015 (SPX)

A study of how climate change has affected emperor penguins over the last 30,000 years found that only three populations may have survived during the last ice a...

Combined Arctic ice observations show decades of loss

Mar 04, 2015 (SPX)

It's no surprise that Arctic sea ice is thinning. What is new is just how long, how steadily, and how much it has declined. University of Washington researchers...

Emperor penguins may have suffered in ice age cold: study

Mar 02, 2015 (AFP)

They prefer freezing conditions but Antarctica's emperor penguins may have struggled with the cold during the last Ice Age when temperatures cooled, a study sug...

The past might tell what the future holds for Greenland meltdown

Feb 24, 2015 (SPX)

A team of scientists lead by Danish geologist Nicolaj Krog Larsen have managed to quantify how the Greenland Ice Sheet reacted to a warm period 8,000-5,000 year...

NASA measures frigid cloud top temps of the Arctic air outbreak

Feb 18, 2015 (SPX)

Some of the coldest air of the 2014-2015 winter season was settling over the eastern two-thirds of the U.S. on February 13, 2015. That Arctic air mass brought w...