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Antarctic ice-sheet less stable than previously assumed
May 29, 2014 (SPX)
The first evidence for massive and abrupt iceberg calving in Antarctica, dating back 19,000 to 9,000 years ago, has now been documented by an international team...
Melting Arctic opens new passages for invasive species
May 29, 2014 (SPX)
For the first time in roughly 2 million years, melting Arctic sea ice is connecting the north Pacific and north Atlantic oceans. The newly opened passages leave...
NASA IceBridge Concludes Arctic Field Campaign
May 29, 2014 (JPL)
Researchers with NASA's Operation IceBridge have completed another successful Arctic field campaign. On May 23, NASA's P-3 research aircraft left Thule Air Base...
Study shows iron from melting ice sheets may help buffer global warming
May 26, 2014 (SPX)
A newly-discovered source of oceanic bioavailable iron could have a major impact our understanding of marine food chains and global warming. A UK team has disco...
Antarctica's ice losses on the rise
May 23, 2014 (SPX)
Three years of observations show that the Antarctic ice sheet is now losing 159 billion tonnes of ice each year - twice as much as when it was last surveyed. A ...
Nepal glaciers shrink by quarter in 30 years: scientist
May 23, 2014 (AFP)
Climate change has caused Nepal's Himalayan glaciers to shrink by nearly a quarter in just over 30 years, raising the risk of natural disasters in the ecologica...
Hidden Greenland Canyons Mean More Sea Level Rise
May 23, 2014 (JPL)
Scientists at NASA and the University of California, Irvine (UCI), have found that canyons under Greenland's ocean-feeding glaciers are deeper and longer than p...
WTO rejects Canada, Norway appeal against EU seal import ban
May 22, 2014 (AFP)
The WTO on Thursday upheld a European Union ban on imports of seal products, rejecting an appeal by Canada and Norway, in a landmark ruling that said animal wel...
Greenland will be far greater contributor to sea rise than expected
May 22, 2014 (SPX)
Greenland's icy reaches are far more vulnerable to warm ocean waters from climate change than had been thought, according to new research by UC Irvine and NASA ...
CryoSat finds sharp increase in Antarctica's ice losses
May 21, 2014 (ESA)
Three years of observations from ESA's CryoSat satellite show that the Antarctic ice sheet is now losing 159 billion tonnes of ice each year - twice as much as ...
China glaciers shrink 15 percent in warming: Xinhua
May 21, 2014 (AFP)
China's glaciers have shrunk by thousands of square kilometres over the past 30 years as a result of climate change, state-run media reported Wednesday. The Qin...
Climate change, forest fires drove widespread surface melting of Greenland ice sheet
May 21, 2014 (SPX)
Rising temperatures and ash from Northern Hemisphere forest fires combined to cause large-scale surface melting of the Greenland ice sheet in 1889 and 2012, con...
Ice mission and extreme camping
May 20, 2014 (ESA)
While camping may appeal to some, scientists recently took the pastime to punishing limits. Enduring the bitter Arctic cold out on the sea ice, they were part o...
Impact Theory Does Not Explain Post Ice Age Cold Snap
May 15, 2014 (SPX)
Controversy over what sparked the Younger Dryas, a brief return to near glacial conditions at the end of the Ice Age, includes a theory that it was caused by a ...
A Slow Collapse As West Antarctic Melts
May 15, 2014 (SPX)
National Science Foundation- (NSF) funded researchers at the University of Washington have concluded that Antarctica's fast-moving Thwaites Glacier will likely ...
West Antarctic Glacier Loss Appears Unstoppable
May 15, 2014 (JPL)
A new study by researchers at NASA and the University of California, Irvine, finds a rapidly melting section of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appears to be in an...
Melting an entire iceberg with a hot poker
May 09, 2014 (SPX)
"What a curious feeling," says Alice in Lewis Carroll's tale, as she shrinks to a fraction of her size, and everything around her suddenly looks totally unfamil...
International team maps nearly 200,000 global glaciers in quest for sea rise answers
May 09, 2014 (SPX)
An international team led by glaciologists from the University of Colorado Boulder and Trent University in Ontario, Canada has completed the first mapping of vi...
Greenland melting due equally to global warming, natural variations
May 09, 2014 (SPX)
The rapid melting of Greenland glaciers is captured in the documentary "Chasing Ice." The retreat of the ice edge from one year to the next sends more water int...
Study explains why polar bears are fat yet healthy
May 08, 2014 (AFP)
When it comes to healthy eating, polar bears break all the rules. They eat mostly fat, but they don't get heart disease the way humans would. Scientists said th...
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