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Arctic sizzled in 2020, the warmest year for Europe too
Apr 22, 2021 (AFP)
The continent in 2020 was nearly half a degree Celsius hotter than the next warmest year, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). That means E...
Earth's cryosphere is vital for everyone
Apr 22, 2021 (SPX)
Nowhere is the role of the cryosphere as evident as it is at high latitudes, where the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets cover most of the land, and where sea ...
Rock glaciers will slow Himalayan ice melt
Apr 21, 2021 (SPX)
Rock glaciers are similar to "true" ice glaciers in that they are mixtures of ice and rock that move downhill by gravity - but the enhanced insulation provided ...
Extreme melt events can permanently alter structure of an ice sheet
Apr 20, 2021 (UPI)
According to a new study, published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, the short-term melting event had a lasting impact on the ice sheet's structure...
Antarctic rainfall could increase through 2100
Apr 16, 2021 (SPX)
By 2100, if greenhouse gases continue to be released at a high level, rain might increase by 240% on average across the continent. The increase in showers could...
NORTHCOM says U.S. must defend interests in the Arctic
Apr 15, 2021 (UPI)
Air Force Gen. Glen D. VanHerck, who also commands the North American Aerospace Defense Command, testified before the House Armed Services Committee Wednesday a...
New study: Thick sea-ice warms Greenland fjords
Apr 13, 2021 (SPX)
A new study led by Stockholm University Assistant Professor Christian Stranne, shows that thick sea-ice outside the fjords can actually increase the sensitivity...
Concordia's Contained Confinement
Apr 11, 2021 (ESA)
The containers store food, recycling and the scientific samples of blood, saliva, and stool that Nick routinely takes. The units on the right are part of the su...
Abrupt ice age climate changes behaved like cascading dominoes
Apr 11, 2021 (SPX)
This is the conclusion from an analysis of ice-core data by a group of researchers that included postdoc Emilie Capron and associate professor Sune Olander Rasm...
Third of Antarctic ice shelf area at risk of collapse as planet warms
Apr 09, 2021 (SPX)
The University of Reading led the most detailed ever study forecasting how vulnerable the vast floating platforms of ice surrounding Antarctica will become to d...
Scientists measure ocean currents underneath 'Doomsday Glacier'
Apr 09, 2021 (UPI)
The fresh observations, published Friday in the journal Science Advances, show Thwaites is exposed to larger amounts of warm water than previously estimated. Th...
U.S. Marines, Norwegian military hold Arctic training exercise
Apr 08, 2021 (UPI)
The exercise, conducted between March 11 and 31, focused on joint naval integration with Norwegian submarines and reinforced live-fire attacks. According to a M...
What a glacial river reveals about the Greenland Ice Sheet
Apr 06, 2021 (SPX)
On the surface of the ice sheet, bottomless sinkholes called moulins can funnel meltwater into the base of the ice. As that water reaches the ice sheet's underl...
Greenland ice sheet surges in daily melt cycles
Apr 06, 2021 (SPX)
The new research is the first report of direct observations from a field campaign showing how daily changes in the volume of water under the ice can drive the f...
Rare earth mine takes centre stage in Greenland vote
Apr 06, 2021 (AFP)
Snow fell over the capital Nuuk as voters queued at polling stations, with roughly 40,000 people eligible to vote in the legislative elections. Face masks were ...
Polar bears forced to forage eggs as warming shrinks hunting grounds
Apr 06, 2021 (AFP)
The climate change threat to polar bears is well known, driven by the extraordinary pace of change in the Arctic, which is warming twice as fast as the planet a...
Arctic mining takes centre stage in Greenland election
Apr 04, 2021 (AFP)
The autonomous Danish territory obtained ownership of its vast mineral reserves in 2009 when its self-rule powers were widened. Those resources, its geopolitica...
Melting ice sheets caused sea levels to rise up to 18 metres
Apr 02, 2021 (SPX)
A team of scientists, led by researchers from Durham University, used geological records of past sea levels to shed light on the ice sheets responsible for a ra...
In the deep sea, the last ice age is not yet over
Mar 31, 2021 (SPX)
During a six-week expedition with the German research vessel METEOR in autumn 2017, a team from MARUM and GEOMAR investigated a methane hydrate deposit in the d...
NASA finds 2021 Arctic Winter Sea Ice Tied for 7th-lowest on record
Mar 31, 2021 (SPX)
This year's maximum extent peaked at 5.70 million square miles (14.77 million square kilometers) and is 340,000 square miles (880,000 square kilometers) below t...
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