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Study: Shelf holding back key Antarctic glacier could break up in 5 years

Dec 13, 2021 (UPI)

A report presented at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in New Orleans said a series of newly discovered weaknesses is causing the Thwaites E...

Reduced ocean circulation during ice age increased carbon storage in the deep sea

Dec 09, 2021 (SPX)

The distribution of oxygen in the water column is primarily determined by the vertical circulation. To answer the question of whether the corresponding conditio...

Mammoths, Yukon wild horses survived thousands of years longer than believed

Dec 09, 2021 (SPX)

In a new paper, published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers from McMaster University, the University of Alberta, the American Museum of Natural ...

Melting glaciers may create new Pacific salmon habitat, study finds

Dec 07, 2021 (UPI)

As glaciers in the mountains of western North America melt, or retreat, they could produce around 4,000 miles of new Pacific salmon habitat by the year 2100, th...

Tracking down microplastics in Antarctica

Dec 02, 2021 (SPX)

Microplastics are an environmental problem since organisms ingest these tiny particles and can be harmed by them. Even remote regions such as Antarctica are aff...

Arctic rainfall could dominate snowfall earlier than expected: study

Nov 30, 2021 (AFP)

The Arctic is warming much faster than the rest of the planet, melting sea ice and adding moisture to the air that is likely to increase precipitation. Comparin...

Study: Changing winds speeding up ocean currents around Antarctica

Nov 29, 2021 (UPI)

Prevailing westerly winds have fueled this increase in velocity, as the climate around the South Pole region warms, the researchers said. Models developed by th...

Rare hunting scene raises questions over polar bear diet

Nov 28, 2021 (AFP)

With sea ice melting, the king of the Arctic may be changing its diet. The dramatic spectacle played out in Norway's Svalbard archipelago on August 21, 2020 -- ...

Isolate in Antarctica, for science

Nov 26, 2021 (ESA)

Located at the mountain plateau called Dome C in Antarctica, the French-Italian base is one of only three that is inhabited all year long. Between the extreme a...

Greenland revokes Chinese firm's iron mining permit

Nov 24, 2021 (AFP)

Now-bankrupt British company London Mining had been awarded the contract in 2013. But Hong Kong-based General Nice Group acquired the permit a year later when i...

Arctic Ocean started to warm decades earlier than scientists thought

Nov 24, 2021 (UPI)

The new research highlights the connection between the North Atlantic and Arctic between Greenland and Svalbard, a region known was Fram Strait, where warmer, s...

Antarctic ice-sheet destabilized within a decade

Nov 19, 2021 (SPX)

To understand what the consequences of current and future human-induced climate warming may be, it helps to take a look at the past: how did sea-level changes l...

Global temperatures over last 24,000 years show today's warming 'unprecedented'

Nov 11, 2021 (SPX)

The study, published this week in Nature, had three main findings: It verified that the main drivers of climate change since the last ice age are rising greenho...

Why did glacial cycles intensify a million years ago?

Nov 10, 2021 (SPX)

Scientists have long puzzled over what triggered this. A likely reason would be a phenomenon called Milankovitch cycles-cyclic changes in Earth's orbit and orie...

Satellites pinpoint communities at risk of permafrost thaw

Nov 10, 2021 (ESA)

The research, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, describes how the visible traces of human presence, or 'human footprint', across the Arct...

Black carbon aerosols heating Arctic: Large contribution from mid-latitude biomass burning

Nov 08, 2021 (SPX)

BC emitted into the atmosphere by fossil fuel combustion and biomass burning efficiently absorbs solar radiation and heats the atmosphere. Furthermore, BC depos...

Glacial ice reveals 1,000 years prosperity and peril in Europe

Nov 04, 2021 (SPX)

A new study analyzed pollen, spores, charcoal and other pollutants frozen in the Colle Gnifetti glacier on the Swiss and Italian border. The research found chan...

Meltwater runoff from Greenland becoming more erratic

Nov 04, 2021 (ESA)

The findings, published this week in Nature Communications, reveal that Greenland's meltwater runoff has risen by 21% over the past four decades, and has become...

Large semi-stationary eddies whip warm water toward melting East Antarctic ice shelf

Nov 03, 2021 (SPX)

Japanese scientists from the National Institute of Polar Research have now however identified the cause as large, semi-stationary eddies off the Wilkes Land coa...

Extreme Greenland ice melt raised global flood risk: study

Nov 01, 2021 (AFP)

The ice sheet atop the world's largest island contains enough frozen water to lift oceans some six metres (20 feet) globally, and extreme melting events there h...