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No glacial fertilization effect in the Antarctic Ocean

Apr 20, 2022 (SPX)

It is argued that iron-rich dust is carried into the ocean by wind and water, where it stimulates the growth of algae that absorb more CO2. As the algae die and...

Record low Antarctic sea ice extent could signal shift

Apr 19, 2022 (AFP)

In late February, the ocean area covered by ice slipped below the symbolic barrier of two million square kilometres (around 772,000 square miles) for the first ...

Thawing permafrost is roiling the Arctic landscape

Apr 13, 2022 (SPX)

It's evidence that permafrost, the long-frozen soil below the surface, is thawing. That's bad news for the communities built above it - and for the global clima...

Abrupt climate change during last ice age driven by critical CO2 levels

Apr 08, 2022 (SPX)

The result is in agreement with data of past temperature and CO2 concentration in ice cores retrieved from Antarctica and Greenland. The work is part of the Eur...

The global plastic flood reaches the Arctic

Apr 07, 2022 (SPX)

The numbers speak for themselves. Today, between 19 and 23 million metric tons of plastic litter per year end up in the waters of the world - that's two trucklo...

Young Sami return to reindeer herding despite climate fears

Apr 01, 2022 (AFP)

"I was just a few months old when I fed my first reindeer," the 24-year-old laughed, saying she "pretty much always knew" she would follow her father and grandf...

Russia expands definition of local in the Arctic

Mar 31, 2022 (SPX)

In this month's open-acceess journal Ambio, scientists from Michigan State University (MSU) and the University of Alaska Fairbanks outline the many ways the Arc...

Arctic greening won't save the climate - here's why

Mar 30, 2022 (The Conversation)

Some theories suggest that this "Arctic greening" will help counteract climate change. The idea is that since plants take up carbon dioxide as they grow, rising...

UK to step up military presence in Arctic

Mar 29, 2022 (AFP)

The region "is important for our communications, it is important for our trade and our travels, it is important for our freedoms," said Wallace as he visited tr...

Conger ice shelf has collapsed

Mar 29, 2022 (The Conversation)

Conger was already reduced to a 50km-long and 20km-wide strip attached to Antarctica's vast continental ice sheet at one end and the ice-covered Bowman Island a...

Solar energy explains fast yearly retreat of Antarctica's sea ice

Mar 29, 2022 (SPX)

"In spite of the puzzling longer-term trends and the large year-to-year variations in Antarctic sea ice, the seasonal cycle is really consistent, always showing...

NATO says cannot allow 'security vacuum' in Arctic

Mar 25, 2022 (AFP)

"We cannot afford a security vacuum in the High North. It could fuel Russian ambitions, expose NATO and risk miscalculation and misunderstandings," Stoltenberg ...

NATO troops face chill of combat in Arctic exercises

Mar 23, 2022 (AFP)

Up in Norway's Far North, a group of US Marines have swapped their usual desert camouflage outfits for mountain gear, thick mittens and big white boots. It is a...

Dramatic warming in the Arctic

Mar 23, 2022 (SPX)

At two to three degrees Celsius over the last 50 years, this increase is much larger than the warming that has taken place in other regions on Earth. This pheno...

Antarctica hits record temperatures, say experts

Mar 19, 2022 (AFP)

The Concordia research base at Dome C of the Antarctic, which is at an altitude of 3,000 metres (9,800 feet), on Friday registered a record -11.5 degrees Celsiu...

Ice sheet retreat and forest expansion turned ancient subtropical drylands into oases

Mar 15, 2022 (SPX)

This work, published in Nature Communications by an international team of scientists, is part of a project called the 2nd Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project...

First-of-its-kind research reveals rapid changes to the Arctic seafloor as submerged permafrost thaws

Mar 15, 2022 (SPX)

Numerous peer-reviewed studies show that thawing permafrost creates unstable land which negatively impacts important Arctic infrastructure, such as roads, train...

Icesat-2 data shows Arctic sea ice thinning in just three years

Mar 11, 2022 (SPX)

Seasonal sea ice, which melts completely each summer rather than accumulating over years, is replacing thicker, multiyear ice and driving sea ice thinning trend...

Researchers detail causes of glacier retreat in West Antarctica

Mar 11, 2022 (SPX)

In a paper published recently in Nature Geoscience, the team reports that the grounding line - where ice moves off the land and begins to float - of Pope Glacie...

Ice flow is more sensitive to stress than previously thought

Mar 11, 2022 (SPX)

Viscous glacier ice flows "really similarly to honey," explains Joanna Millstein, a PhD student in the Glacier Dynamics and Remote Sensing Group and lead author...