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Doubt over future of Antarctic ocean sanctuary plans

Oct 23, 2019 (AFP)

The proposed East Antarctic marine park would protect one million square kilometres of ocean, but has repeatedly been struck down at meetings of the Commission ...

Antarctic ice cliffs may not contribute to sea-level rise as much as predicted

Oct 23, 2019 (SPX)

Scientists have assumed that ice cliffs taller than 90 meters (about the height of the Statue of Liberty) would rapidly collapse under their own weight, contrib...

How can space chart the future of a warming Arctic Circle?

Oct 23, 2019 (SPX)

A new report by The Aerospace Corporation's Center for Space Policy and Strategy (CSPS), Closing the Arctic Infrastructure Gap: Existing and Emerging Space-Base...

Russia discovers five Arctic islands uncovered by melting ice

Oct 22, 2019 (AFP)

An expedition in August and September charted the islands, which have yet to be named and were previously hidden under glaciers, said the head of the northern f...

Development dilemma as eastern Greenland eyes tourism boost

Oct 17, 2019 (AFP)

Many of the 85,000 tourists who visit each year head to the west coast, but eastern Greenland, with its glaciers, wilderness and wildlife starring whales and po...

A year trapped in Arctic ice for climate science

Oct 17, 2019 (ESA)

With the youth calling for action, the climate crisis is in the public eye more than ever, and consequently there is more pressure to push the issue higher up t...

Low sea-ice cover in the Arctic

Oct 17, 2019 (SPX)

Until mid-August, it looked as though a notable record would be reached: the area of the Arctic Ocean covered by ice (defined as the area with a sea-ice concent...

Swiss glaciers shrink 10 percent in five years: study

Oct 15, 2019 (AFP)

Measurements on 20 Swiss glaciers have shown that melt rates this year have reached "record levels", according to the annual study on the state of the glaciers,...

Study offers solution to Ice Age ocean chemistry puzzle

Oct 11, 2019 (SPX)

At issue is how much of the CO2 that entered the ocean during ice ages can be attributed to the 'biological pump', where atmospheric carbon is absorbed by phyto...

Aerial photographs shed light on Mont Blanc ice loss

Oct 11, 2019 (SPX)

In August 2019, one century after the biplane flight, Dr Kieran Baxter and Dr Alice Watterson from the 3DVisLab at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Desi...

Warm ocean water attacking edges of Antarctica's ice shelves

Oct 10, 2019 (SPX)

The findings, published in Science Advances, describe a new process important to the future of Antarctica's ice and the continent's contribution to rising seas....

Study calls for stronger protections for emperor penguins

Oct 09, 2019 (UPI)

Climate models suggest shifting wind patterns and rising temperatures are likely to reduce the amount of sea ice available to emperor penguins for breeding. To ...

The last mammoths died on a remote island

Oct 08, 2019 (SPX)

During the last ice age - some 100,000 to 15,000 years ago - mammoths were widespread in the northern hemisphere from Spain to Alaska. Due to the global warming...

Dust in ice cores leads to new knowledge on the advancement of the ice before the ice age

Oct 08, 2019 (SPX)

Working with the ice core ReCap, drilled close to the coast in East Greenland, postdoc Marius Simonsen wondered why the dust particles from the interglacial per...

MOSAiC expedition selects ice floe for drift through Arctic Ocean

Oct 04, 2019 (UPI)

Late last month, a team of researchers with the Alfred Wegener Institute's Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research set sail from Norway and entered the L...

Laser precision: NASA Flights, satellite align over sea ice

Oct 04, 2019 (SPX)

"If you look at the height profiles from ICESat-2 and IceBridge, you can tell that they're almost the same," said Ron Kwok, a sea ice scientist at NASA's Jet Pr...

Italian Alpine glacier close to collapse, officials warn

Sep 25, 2019 (AFP)

This is the latest of a series of warnings about melting glaciers -- in the Alps and elsewhere -- as concern grows about the effects of climate change. The mayo...

DLR navigation systems will freeze in place with Polarstern in Arctic

Sep 24, 2019 (SPX)

Researchers from 19 countries have a unique opportunity to conduct experiments and collect data. On 17 and 18 September, before the Polarstern departed from Tro...

2019 Arctic Sea Ice Minimum tied for second lowest on record

Sep 24, 2019 (SPX)

The Arctic sea ice cap is an expanse of frozen seawater floating on top of the Arctic Ocean and neighboring seas. Every year, it expands and thickens during the...

W. Antarctica's crumbling ice sheet to redraw global coastline

Sep 23, 2019 (AFP)

It is not, according to available science, a matter of "if" but "when". Anders Levermann, a professor at the Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research in Ger...