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Warm winds in autumn could strain Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf

Apr 17, 2019 (SPX)

New University of Maryland-led research shows that the Larsen C ice shelf - the fourth largest ice shelf in Antarctica, located just south of the former Larsen ...

Ice Ages occur when tropical islands and continents collide

Apr 15, 2019 (SPX)

The key trigger, they say, is mountain formation in the tropics as continental land masses collide with volcanic island arcs, such as the Aleutian Islands chain...

The oldest ice on Earth may be able to solve the puzzle of the planet's climate history

Apr 10, 2019 (SPX)

The research team selected one of the most barren and lifeless places on Earth: "Little Dome C" is located around 30 kilometers - or a couple of hours by snowmo...

Melting glaciers causing sea levels to rise at ever greater rates

Apr 09, 2019 (SPX)

Glaciers alone lost more than 9,000 billion tons of ice since 1961, raising water levels by 27 millimeters, an international research team under the lead of the...

Glaciers lose nine trillion tonnes of ice in half a century

Apr 09, 2019 (ESA)

An international team led by the University of Zurich in Switzerland used classical glaciological field observations combined with a wealth of information from ...

Genomic data maps the 'refugia' where North American trees survived the ice age

Apr 09, 2019 (SPX)

But what was the source of the trees that carried out this vast postglacial recolonization? Identifying the exact location of these so-called glacial refugia - ...

Woolly mammoths, Neanderthals had similar genetic traits

Apr 08, 2019 (UPI)

Both species can trace their lineage to Africa, but woolly mammoths first emerged in Eurasia some 600,000 years ago, while Neanderthals emerged in Europe and sp...

NASA Begins Final Year of Airborne Polar Ice Mission

Apr 05, 2019 (SPX)

Now, for the first time since its inaugural flights a decade ago, while IceBridge is mapping Greenland's ice from the air, one of NASA's newest satellite missio...

Russia's glossy Arctic army base on guard for enemies and bears

Apr 05, 2019 (AFP)

Moscow built the military base on the remote Kotelny Island -- part of the New Siberian Islands in the eastern Arctic -- in record time after realising the stra...

A Decade of Exploring Alaska's Mountain Glaciers

Apr 03, 2019 (SPX)

In almost a decade of operations, the Operation IceBridge Alaska team has more than doubled the number of mountain glaciers surveyed in the state known as "The ...

How climate change is reshaping the Arctic landscape

Apr 03, 2019 (SPX)

Using a set of satellite images from the Google Earth Engine Timelapse dataset, Professor Lewkowicz and his co-author Robert Way recorded an astounding sixty-fo...

Transpolar Drift is faltering as sea ice melts before leaving the nursery

Apr 03, 2019 (SPX)

According to the researchers, this development not only takes us one step closer to an ice-free summer in the Arctic; as the sea ice dwindles, the Arctic Ocean ...

Alaska bakes under heat wave linked to climate change

Mar 29, 2019 (AFP)

"Both February and March have been exceptionally warm," Rick Thoman, a climate specialist with the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy, told AFP. "M...

Cold Water Currently Slowing Fastest Greenland Glacier

Mar 27, 2019 (JPL)

The researchers conclude that the slowdown of this glacier, known in the Greenlandic language as Sermeq Kujalleq, occurred because an ocean current that brings ...

Tall ice-cliffs may trigger big calving events - and fast sea-level rise

Mar 27, 2019 (SPX)

The ice-cliff research was spurred by a helicopter ride over Jakobshavn and Helheim glaciers on Greenland's eastern coast. Helheim ends abruptly in the ocean, i...

Ecuador's indigenous fear for wetlands as glacier recedes

Mar 21, 2019 (AFP)

But something equally dramatic was happening further down the slopes of Ecuador's highest mountain. And the consequences for the indigenous population living th...

Arctic Sea Ice 2019 Wintertime Extent Is Seventh Lowest

Mar 21, 2019 (SPX)

This year's maximum extent peaked at 5.71 million square miles (14.78 million square kilometers) and is 332,000 square miles (860,000 square kilometers) below t...

NASA's Greenland mission still surprises in year four

Mar 19, 2019 (JPL)

With two or three field projects a year since 2016, no wonder OMG has made the most comprehensive measurements yet of how ocean water lapping at the undersides ...

New perspective on changing travel conditions in Arctic communities

Mar 19, 2019 (SPX)

The Arctic is warming nearly twice as quickly as the rest of the world and has the potential to affect many aspects of life for the people that live there. The ...

Sentinels monitor converging ice cracks

Mar 15, 2019 (ESA)

The Brunt ice shelf is an area of floating ice bordering the Coats Land coast in the Weddell Sea sector of Antarctica. Using radar images from the Copernicus Se...