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UAF scientists to hunt for clues about Arctic Ocean glaciation
May 19, 2023 (SPX)
UAF Geophysical Institute scientists will focus on the Beaufort and Chukchi seas region, both offshore and onshore. They hope to discover the extent of glaciati...
Why Antarctic ice shelves are losing their mass and how it leads to global sea level rise
May 19, 2023 (SPX)
The level AIS will contribute to the overall increase in sea level is unknown, and current models vary drastically, leaving a major question regarding future se...
Antarctica's heart of ice has skipped a beat
May 19, 2023 (The Conversation)
But lately, there's been a skip in the beat. During each of the last two summers, the ice around Antarctica has retreated farther than ever before. And just as ...
Past climate change to blame for Antarctica's giant underwater landslides
May 19, 2023 (SPX)
An international team of researchers has uncovered layers of weak, fossilised and biologically-rich sediments hundreds of metres beneath the seafloor. These for...
Warm Ice Age changed climate cycles
May 17, 2023 (SPX)
According to the researchers, this profound change in the Earth's climate was responsible for the change in the climate cycles, thus representing a critical ste...
Out of this world control on Ice Age cycles
May 16, 2023 (SPX)
Earth's orbit around the Sun and its spin axis orientation change slowly over time, due to the pull of gravity from the Sun, the Moon, and other planets. These ...
Similar but different: Antarctic and Arctic sea ice and their responses to climate change
May 07, 2023 (SPX)
"The differences in responses are explained in terms of geographic, climatic and meteorological differences between the two regions. Arctic sea ice is located i...
CryoSat reveals ice loss from glaciers
May 03, 2023 (ESA)
Thanks to ESA's CryoSat satellite and a breakthrough way of using its data, scientists have discovered that glaciers worldwide have shrunk by a total of 2% in j...
West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreated far inland, re-advanced since last Ice Age
May 02, 2023 (SPX)
"In the last few thousand years before we started watching, ice in some parts of Antarctica retreated and re-advanced over a much larger area than we previously...
The future is foggy for Arctic shipping
Apr 28, 2023 (SPX)
The study was published in Geophysical Research Letters, which publishes high-impact, short-format reports with immediate implications spanning all Earth and sp...
Meltdown: 2023 looking grim for Swiss glaciers
Apr 28, 2023 (AFP)
Every year in April, when the snowpack reaches its peak, the Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland (GLAMOS) organisation surveys around 15 glaciers. "This year, the...
Kivalina fights climate disasters amid Arctic Sea ice loss and storms.
Apr 27, 2023 (SPX)
A neighboring family had lost 3 feet of land to the rumbling lagoon, and their home was now sitting just 6 feet from the angry water's edge. Reppi called his br...
Ice loss from Greenland and Antarctica hits new record
Apr 24, 2023 (ESA)
Scientists use data from satellites such as ESA's CryoSat and the European Union's Copernicus Sentinel-1 to measure changes in ice volume and flow, as well as s...
UN reports 'off the charts' melting of glaciers
Apr 21, 2023 (AFP)
The last eight years have been the warmest ever recorded, while concentrations of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide hit new peaks, the UN's World Meteorol...
Revealing invisible Himalaya glacier loss
Apr 11, 2023 (ESA)
Glaciers in the Himalayas are part of the 'third pole', so-called because ice fields in high-mountain Asia contain the largest reservoir of freshwater outside t...
The ice in Antarctica has melted before
Apr 10, 2023 (SPX)
"The ice sheet in East Antarctica stores enormous amounts of water. This means that this is the biggest possible source of future sea level rise - up to 53 mete...
Snowball Earth might have been a slushball
Apr 10, 2023 (SPX)
Called the Marinoan Ice Age, it's named for the part of Australia where geologic evidence was first collected in the 1970s. Scientists say the Marinoan Ice Age ...
Ice sheets can collapse faster than previously thought possible
Apr 10, 2023 (SPX)
An international team of researchers, led by Dr Christine Batchelor of Newcastle University, UK, used high-resolution imagery of the seafloor to reveal just how...
An invisible underwater glacier loss in the Himalayas
Apr 07, 2023 (SPX)
Published in Nature Geoscience journal on April 3, 2023, the study conducted by an international team including researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences...
Ice age data raises new concerns about future ice melt, rising sea levels
Apr 06, 2023 (UPI)
Researchers say the data, released Wednesday in the journal Nature, confirms a large ice sheet covering Eurasia -- between 15,000 and 19,000 years ago -- retrea...
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