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Waterloo makes public most complete Antarctic map for climate research
Aug 21, 2014 (SPX)
The University of Waterloo has unveiled a new satellite image of Antarctica, and the imagery will help scientists all over the world gain new insight into the e...
Snow has thinned on Arctic sea ice
Aug 15, 2014 (SPX)
From research stations drifting on ice floes to high-tech aircraft radar, scientists have been tracking the depth of snow that accumulates on Arctic sea ice for...
Antarctica could raise sea level faster than previously thought
Aug 15, 2014 (SPX)
The results reproduce Antarctica's recent contribution to sea level rise as observed by satellites in the last two decades and show that the ice continent could...
Glaciers on Tibetan plateau warmest in 2,000 years
Aug 15, 2014 (UPI)
The glacier-filled Tibetan plateau has warmed more over the last 50 years than it has in the preceding 2,000, according to researchers in China. The Tibetan pla...
Megascale icebergs run aground
Aug 12, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), have found between Greenland and Spitsbergen the scours left...
Chile's mega-quake triggered 'icequakes' in Antarctica
Aug 10, 2014 (AFP)
A monster earthquake that struck Chile in 2010 also unleashed minor "icequakes" in Antarctica nearly 4,700 kilometres (2,900 miles) to the south, scientists sai...
Greenpeace Arctic Sunrise ship returns to warm welcome
Aug 09, 2014 (AFP)
Greenpeace's Arctic Sunrise ship arrived home to a warm welcome in The Netherlands on Saturday, almost a year after it was seized by Russia during a protest aga...
Enhanced international cooperation needed in Antarctica
Aug 07, 2014 (SPX)
Countries need to work together to ensure Antarctic research continues and key questions on the region are answered, researchers say. In an article published in...
Melt Ponds Shine in NASA Laser Altimeter Flight Images
Aug 07, 2014 (SPX)
Even from 65,000 feet above Earth, aquamarine melt ponds in the Arctic stand out against the white sea ice and ice sheets. These ponds form every summer, as sno...
University of Minnesota researcher finds cooling effect in warming Arctic lakes
Aug 06, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists have known for a while that warming global temperatures are causing Arctic lakes to release methane, a potent greenhouse gas that leads to even more ...
Sulfur signals in Antarctic snow reveal clues to climate, past and future
Aug 06, 2014 (SPX)
Sulfur signals in the Antarctic snow have revealed the importance of overlooked atmospheric chemistry for understanding climate, past and future. Eruptions of h...
Certain Arctic lakes store more greenhouse gases than they release
Aug 05, 2014 (SPX)
New research, supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), counters a widely-held scientific view that thawing permafrost uniformly accelerates atmospher...
Antarctic ice sheet is result of CO2 decrease, not continental breakup
Aug 01, 2014 (SPX)
Climate modelers from the University of New Hampshire have shown that the most likely explanation for the initiation of Antarctic glaciation during a major clim...
Huge waves measured for first time in Arctic Ocean
Jul 31, 2014 (SPX)
As the climate warms and sea ice retreats, the North is changing. An ice-covered expanse now has a season of increasingly open water that is predicted to extend...
Synchronization of North Atlantic, North Pacific preceded warming, end of ice age
Jul 28, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists have long been concerned that global warming may push Earth's climate system across a "tipping point," where rapid melting of ice and further warming...
Giant crater in Russia's far north sparks mystery
Jul 26, 2014 (AFP)
A vast crater discovered in a remote region of Siberia known to locals as "the end of the world" is causing a sensation in Russia, with a group of scientists be...
Has Antarctic sea ice expansion been overestimated?
Jul 23, 2014 (SPX)
New research suggests that Antarctic sea ice may not be expanding as fast as previously thought. A team of scientists say much of the increase measured for Sout...
Climate change ravaging Antarctic fur seals: study
Jul 23, 2014 (AFP)
A food shortage likely caused by climate change is shrinking a South Antarctic fur seal colony and changing the profile of its surviving members, researchers sa...
Climate-cooling arctic lakes soak up greenhouse gases
Jul 18, 2014 (SPX)
New University of Alaska Fairbanks research indicates that arctic thermokarst lakes stabilize climate change by storing more greenhouse gases than they emit int...
Tracking the breakup of Arctic summer sea ice
Jul 18, 2014 (SPX)
As sea ice begins to melt back toward its late September minimum, it is being watched as never before. Scientists have put sensors on and under ice in the Beauf...
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