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Bacterial bloom as the earth thawed: Photosynthetic organisms during the snowball earth
Aug 27, 2021 (SPX)
A research team from Tohoku University has unveiled more about the evolutionary process of the Marinoan-Ediacaran transition. Using biomarker evidence, they rev...
Understanding Antarctic ice historic changes could reveal future changes
Aug 25, 2021 (SPX)
The results were published on June 14 in Geology. "An accurate reconstruction of Antarctic Ice Sheet changes is required to develop a further understanding of i...
ESA astronaut joins glacier expedition in Alps
Aug 24, 2021 (ESA)
The pair accompany a scientific team that is documenting how the glacier is changing in response to global warming. Situated near the Monte Rosa massif close to...
Rain on Greenland ice sheet signals climate change risk
Aug 23, 2021 (AFP)
The rain was observed for several hours on August 14 at a measuring post more than 3,000 metres (9,800 feet) up on the sheet, the US Snow and Ice Data Center re...
A-74 iceberg near collision with Brunt Ice Shelf
Aug 23, 2021 (ESA)
For years, glaciologists have been monitoring the formation and extension of the fractures, known as rifts, and the opening of large chasms in the 150 m thick B...
Rise and shine at Concordia Research Station in Antarctica
Aug 21, 2021 (ESA)
For nine months Nick and his fellow crew mates have been living and working in one of the most isolated, confined and extreme environments on Earth, with no way...
Increased snowfall will offset sea level rise from melting Antarctic ice sheet
Aug 20, 2021 (SPX)
The paper, published in Geophysical Research Letters, is based on the new generation of climate models which are used in the newly published Intergovernmental P...
Greenland, Antarctica will respond differently to increased future warming
Aug 20, 2021 (SPX)
The new study predicts that, by 2100, additional melting of the Antarctic ice sheet will be countered by an increase in snowfall, associated with a warmer Polar...
Thwaites glacier: Significant geothermal heat beneath the ice stream
Aug 19, 2021 (SPX)
In a new study, German and British researchers have shown that there is a conspicuously large amount of heat from Earth's interior beneath the ice, which has li...
The Arctic Ocean's deep past provides clues to its imminent future
Aug 17, 2021 (SPX)
Not so fast, says a team of scientists led by Princeton University and the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry. They point to nitrogen, a vital nutrient. The res...
Going, going... gone? Europe's fast-vanishing glaciers
Aug 14, 2021 (AFP)
As climate change drives global temperatures ever higher, the glacier risks melting away into the geological record books altogether. Situated in a deep valley ...
Scandinavian research shows Arctic warming nearly four times as fast as entire globe
Aug 11, 2021 (UPI)
"We show that during 1979-2021, the Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the globe, and provide evidence that climate models struggle to simulate thi...
Experts eye unstable glacier within Italy's Mont Blanc
Aug 11, 2021 (AFP)
The Planpincieux glacier, at an altitude of about 2,700 metres (8,860 feet), hangs over the hamlet of Planpincieux, underneath the south face of the Grandes Jor...
NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland Mission Leaves for Its Last Field Trip
Aug 05, 2021 (JPL)
Greenland's melting glaciers currently contribute more fresh water to sea level rise than any other source does. The glaciers are melting six or seven times fas...
'Problematic' Greenland polar bear may be shot
Aug 03, 2021 (AFP)
The attack on the documentary team near an army base comes as the autonomous Danish Arctic territory experiences a record heatwave and as polar bears wander fur...
Alps app tracks treasures melting glaciers expose
Aug 03, 2021 (AFP)
The southwestern Wallis region said Tuesday the IceWatcher mobile phone application should help them collect and store glacial finds as quickly as possible. Wal...
Heatwave causes massive melt of Greenland ice sheet
Jul 31, 2021 (AFP)
Since Wednesday the ice sheet covering the vast Arctic territory, has melted by around eight billion tonnes a day, twice its normal average rate during summer, ...
Canada's new governor general, Inuit advocate Mary Simon
Jul 26, 2021 (AFP)
As Canada's head of state and Queen Elizabeth II's representative in the Commonwealth nation, Simon said her appointment marks "an important step forward on the...
Ice clouds warming the Arctic
Jul 24, 2021 (SPX)
The researchers are investigating at what time of day contrail cirrus clouds have the weakest warming effect and whether their creation can be avoided under cer...
Unsustainable Arctic shipping risks accelerating damage to the Arctic environment
Jul 20, 2021 (SPX)
They conclude that policy makers must properly assess the environmental trade-offs and costs in addition to the commercial benefits and opportunities in Arctic ...
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