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Study finds growing potential for toxic algal blooms in the Alaskan arctic
Oct 26, 2021 (SPX)
The study, led by scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in collaboration with colleagues from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin...
Permafrost: a ticking carbon time bomb
Oct 25, 2021 (AFP)
Here in the Arctic in Sweden's far north, about 10 kilometres (six miles) east of the tiny town of Abisko, global warming is happening three times faster than i...
Treasure hunt off Greenland for marine diamonds
Oct 20, 2021 (AFP)
Researchers on board the vessel Sanna were to conduct preliminary exploration surveys for eight days at the end of September aimed at gathering information abou...
Swiss glaciers shrink despite heavy snow in 2021: report
Oct 19, 2021 (AFP)
"The volume of Swiss glaciers decreased by almost one percent in 2021, in spite of plentiful snow in winter and a pretty cool summer," the Cryospheric Commissio...
Scientists discover large rift in the Arctic's last bastion of thick sea ice
Oct 19, 2021 (SPX)
In May 2020, a hole a little smaller than the state of Rhode Island opened up for two weeks in the Last Ice Area, a million-square-kilometer patch of sea ice no...
Icy 'Glue' May Control Pace of Antarctic Ice-Shelf Breakup
Oct 18, 2021 (JPL)
Ice shelves, the floating tongues of glaciers that extend over the ocean, slow the rate at which Antarctica's glaciers contribute to global sea level rise. As a...
Protection of Antarctica waters must be increased: NGOs
Oct 04, 2021 (AFP)
In a petition, conservationists joined with Antarctica2020 activists to warn that the waters surrounding Antarctica remain "open to commercial fishing which has...
New report finds 2022 'disastrous year' for melting Swiss glaciers
Sep 28, 2021 (UPI)
The new study indicates that about .71 cubic miles of ice has melted, accounting for over 6% of the glacial volume. Before this year, ice loss percentages as sm...
UMass Amherst researcher to unravel the last great Arctic mystery
Sep 15, 2021 (SPX)
"This is one of the last great mysteries of the Arctic," says Bradley. "What were the environmental conditions like when the first people arrived in the High Ar...
On thin ice: Near North Pole, a warning on climate change
Sep 15, 2021 (AFP)
Dmitry Lobusov has seen it. For 13 years he has captained the "50 Let Pobedy" ("50 Years of Victory"), part of a growing fleet of icebreakers that Russia is usi...
Dynamics behind the remarkable August 2018 Greenland polynya formation
Sep 14, 2021 (SPX)
Climatologists have never observed such a pronounced polynya since the beginning of the satellite era. Then, six months later, in August 2018, a polynya appeare...
Lake ice melting 8 days earlier on average, study finds
Sep 12, 2021 (UPI)
Between 1979 and 2020, the average timing of lake ice break-up across the Northern Hemisphere has advanced by eight days, the research, conducted by Dr. Iestyn ...
Biden admin. moves to block controversial Alaska gold mine
Sep 10, 2021 (AFP)
The Bristol Bay watershed "is an Alaskan treasure that underscores the critical value of clean water in America," said Environmental Protection Agency chief Mic...
Breaking barriers: Russian woman leads the way on Arctic ship
Sep 08, 2021 (AFP)
At just 27, Kidzhi is a chief mate -- second in command to the captain -- and sets the path the giant vessel will take through the frozen waters of the Arctic O...
Global warming threatens the existence of an Arctic oasis
Sep 07, 2021 (SPX)
The University of Helsinki's Environmental Change Research Unit (ECRU) took part in an international study investigating the millennia-long history of the most ...
Swiss glaciologist bears witness to relentless Alpine glacier melt
Sep 03, 2021 (AFP)
Analysis of the data gathered from Aletsch, the largest glacier in the Alps, paints a dire picture of the toll that climate change is taking on the behemoth. Al...
Paleofjords that drained glaciers 300M years ago preserved NW Namibia
Sep 02, 2021 (SPX)
Such features are usually found in Canada or Scandinavia that were recently (20,000 years) covered by huge ice sheets. Discovering such marks of ice flow in Nam...
Rapid Arctic warming triggers extreme winter events in US: study
Sep 02, 2021 (AFP)
The paper, published in the journal Science, used observational data and modeling to establish a link between planetary warming linked to human activity and a p...
Melting Greenland ice sheet could cause devastating sea level rise of nearly a foot
Aug 29, 2021 (UPI)
The study, published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change, found that an inevitable 3.3% loss in ice sheet volume would lead to a contemporary sea level ...
Researchers discover world's 'northernmost' island
Aug 28, 2021 (AFP)
Researchers came upon the landmass on an expedition in July, and initially thought they had reached Oodaaq, up until now the northernmost island on the planet. ...
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