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Ice-sheet variability during the last ice age from the perspective of marine sediment
May 20, 2019 (SPX)
Knowledge regarding the nature of past climate variability is essential for understanding current climate change and providing context for interpretation of mod...
Satellites yield insight into not so permanent permafrost
May 20, 2019 (ESA)
In Earth's cold regions, much of the sub-surface ground is frozen. Permafrost is frozen soil, rock or sediment - sometimes hundreds of metres thick. To be class...
New study boosts understanding of how ocean melts Antarctic Ice Sheet
May 15, 2019 (SPX)
Until now, most measurements in Antarctica were made during summer, leaving winter conditions, when the sea freezes over with ice, largely unknown. But scientis...
Jakobshavn Isbrae Glacier bucks the trend
May 15, 2019 (ESA)
In recent years, Greenland has been losing more ice through the Jakobshavn Isbrae Glacier than from anywhere else on this huge ice sheet. Various types of satel...
U.S. military personnel begin Exercise Northern Edge in Alaska
May 14, 2019 (UPI)
Approximately 250 aircraft from the Air Force, Marines, Navy and National Guard and five U.S. naval ships will participate in the exercise that began Monday and...
Influential excrement: How life in Antarctica thrives on penguin poop
May 10, 2019 (AFP)
One thing they didn't really factor in, however, was the role played by the nitrogen-rich droppings from colonies of cute penguins and seals -- until now. A new...
Arctic rivers provide fingerprint of carbon release from thawing permafrost
May 08, 2019 (SPX)
A study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA by a team of researchers led by Stockholm University used radiocar...
US climate change refusal sinks Arctic declaration: delegates
May 07, 2019 (AFP)
At the start of the 11th ministerial meeting, chair Finnish Foreign Minister Timo Soini announced a change to the planned agenda, saying the final joint declara...
Thawing permafrost leaves traceable carbon footprint in Arctic rivers
May 07, 2019 (UPI)
Carbon is everywhere. It is also often on the move. But some carbon sources are sneakier than others. To better understand the planet's carbon budget and its in...
US climate sceptics send shivers through Arctic cooperation
May 07, 2019 (AFP)
At the start of the 11th gathering of Arctic foreign ministers, in the Lapland town of Rovaniemi, Finnish Foreign Minister Timo Soini announced a change to the ...
Pompeo slams China, Russia for 'aggressive' Arctic behaviour
May 06, 2019 (AFP)
"The region has become an arena of global power and competition" owing to vast reserves of oil, gas, minerals and fish stocks, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo...
Alaska's thaw threatens prehistoric sites once frozen in time
May 04, 2019 (AFP)
Over the following months, hundreds of similar objects -- baskets, finely carved harpoon shafts, lip plugs, wooden dolls, ivory tattoo needles -- emerged from t...
Alaska's indigenous people feel the heat of climate change
May 02, 2019 (AFP)
The tiny village located in southwestern Alaska, along the meandering Kuskokwim River, is one of dozens of coastal indigenous communities across the state that ...
Climate change threatens half World Heritage sites' glaciers
Apr 30, 2019 (AFP)
The new study from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) focused on the 46 World Heritage sites where glaciers are found, including Grosser ...
Ocean's 'seasonal memory' affects Arctic climate change
Apr 30, 2019 (SPX)
Global warming affects the Arctic more than other regions on the planet. Each year, the ice cover retreats slightly closer to the North Pole. Since an ever smal...
Antarctica's Effect on Sea Level Rise in Coming Centuries
Apr 26, 2019 (JPL)
But how much of a role will it play hundreds of years in the future? Scientists rely on precise numerical models to answer questions like this one. As the model...
'Catastrophic' breeding failure at one of world's largest emperor penguin colonies
Apr 26, 2019 (SPX)
Researchers from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) studied very high resolution satellite imagery to reveal the unusual findings, published in the journal Antarcti...
VT Halter awarded $745.9M for Coast Guard's new Polar Security Cutter
Apr 24, 2019 (UPI)
The contract, announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense, calls the company to handle engineering and detail design for the new class of vessel, as well as ...
Coast Guard plans to add resources in Arctic to counter Russia, China
Apr 23, 2019 (UPI)
The military branch has proposed upgrading ships, aircraft, unmanned systems and communications systems in a 48-page Arctic Strategic Outlook, which was release...
Researchers calculate decades of 'scary' Greenland ice melting
Apr 22, 2019 (AFP)
By the 1990s and 2000s, scientists were able to make pretty good estimates, although work from previous decades was unreliable due to less advanced technology. ...
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