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Sep 15, 2023 (SPX)

In the 33rd annual State of the Climate report, an international assessment of the global climate published Sept. 6 in the Bulletin of the American Meteorologic...

Cruise ship stuck in Greenland fjord refloated: owner

Sep 14, 2023 (AFP)

"The Ocean Explorer was pulled free," the Danish navy's Joint Arctic Command in Greenland said. A Greenlandic fisheries research vessel was able to help tug the...

Cruise ship runs aground in Greenland fjord, no injured

Sep 12, 2023 (AFP)

"The Ocean Explorer ran aground Monday in the Alpefjord northeast of Greenland and has been unable to refloat itself," a spokeswoman for the Danish navy's Arcti...

New research explains Atlantification of the Arctic Ocean

Sep 05, 2023 (SPX)

The many environmental responses to the Arctic dipole are described in a paper published online in the journal Science. This analysis helps explain how North At...

Measuring the retreat of Italy's largest glacier

Sep 04, 2023 (AFP)

"From the end of the 19th century until today, the glacier has lost approximately 2.7 kilometres," said Cristian Ferrari, president of the Glaciological Commiss...

Study quantifies link between greenhouse gases, polar bear survival

Aug 31, 2023 (AFP)

But quantifying the impact of a single oil well or coal power plant on the tundra predators had eluded scientists, until now. A new report published in the jour...

Tides may be responsible for much of under-ice melting in an Antarctica ice shelf

Aug 30, 2023 (SPX)

Called basal melting, oceanic heat and compression contribute to the phenomenon, but tides may play a bigger role than previously thought, according to a multi-...

Scientists voyage to Greenland's melting sanctuary

Aug 29, 2023 (AFP)

After the warmest July ever recorded at Summit Camp atop Greenland's ice sheet, the expedition members sailing the country's east coast are acutely aware of the...

Loss of Antarctic sea ice causes catastrophic breeding failure for Emperor Penguins

Aug 25, 2023 (SPX)

In a new study published in Communications Earth and Environment, researchers from British Antarctic Survey discussed the high probability that no chicks had su...

Mountaineers urged to delay Mont Blanc climbs amid Alps heatwave

Aug 22, 2023 (AFP)

The high temperatures, with more than 40 degrees Celsius registered in areas of southern France, are also being felt in the high peaks of the Alps, creating tre...

UC Irvine scientists say deepening Arctic snowpack drives greenhouse gas emissions

Aug 21, 2023 (SPX)

"It is the first long-term experiment where we directly measure the mobilization of ancient carbon year-round to show that deeper snow has the possibility to ra...

Hot spell pushes 'zero-degree' line to record height in Switzerland

Aug 21, 2023 (AFP)

The zero-degree line is determined by meteorologists using weather balloons that take off twice a day from Payerne in western Switzerland. MeteoSwiss said the n...

Could artificially dimming the sun prevent ice melt

Aug 17, 2023 (SPX)

Is there an emergency solution that could stop climate change? Technical methods that artificially influence the climate have been discussed for some time under...

2023 set to be another bad year for Swiss glaciers: researcher

Aug 16, 2023 (AFP)

"Still more than a month to go in the melting season. How are Swiss glaciers doing at the moment? Not good!" glaciology professor Matthias Huss, head of Glacier...

Rocket Lab to launch NASA Arctic ice caps satellites

Aug 15, 2023 (SPX)

The two dedicated missions on Electron will deploy one small satellite each to a 525km circular orbit from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand from May 2...

Russian defence minister inspects Arctic military installations

Aug 12, 2023 (AFP)

Shoigu was accompanied by Alexey Likhachev, head of the state nuclear company Rosatom, and visited Novaya Zemlya, in Russia's extreme north, a statement said. T...

Extreme cooling ended the first human occupation of Europe

Aug 11, 2023 (SPX)

Published in the journal Science, the team of researchers discovered the occurrence of previously unknown extreme glacial conditions around 1.1 million years ag...

Telecommunications cable used to track sea ice extent in the Arctic

Aug 11, 2023 (SPX)

Andres Felipe Pena Castro of the University of New Mexico and colleagues used distributed acoustic sensing, or DAS, to identify seismic signals related to the m...

'Mighty Bad Land': A tale of danger and discovery in West Antarctica

Aug 11, 2023 (SPX)

The geologic history of Antarctica was far from Luyendyk's first academic interest. He was already widely traveled when he joined the faculty at UC Santa Barbar...

Antarctica vulnerable to extreme events

Aug 11, 2023 (ESA)

The research paper, which was published in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Science, discusses the impact of extreme events on the Antarctic environment i...