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Young Russians seek health, highs in ice swimming
Feb 19, 2019 (AFP)
She is one of a new generation of Russian "Walruses" -- hardy swimmers who plunge into frozen rivers and lakes all through the winter. They swear it wards off n...
'Invasion' of polar bears in Russian Arctic over
Feb 19, 2019 (AFP)
Officials in the remote northeastern Novaya Zemlya archipelago declared a state of emergency last week after 52 bears were seen entering homes and public buildi...
Surface lakes cause Antarctic ice shelves to 'flex'
Feb 14, 2019 (SPX)
A team of British and American researchers, co-led by the University of Cambridge, has measured how much the McMurdo ice shelf in Antarctica flexes in response ...
Ice shelves buckle under weight of meltwater lakes
Feb 14, 2019 (SPX)
"Scientists have been predicting and modeling this process for some time, but nobody has ever collected field data that showed it happening until now," said Ali...
Ice volume calculated anew
Feb 13, 2019 (SPX)
Up-to-date information on the worldwide ice volume is needed to assess how glaciers - and the freshwater reserves they supply - will develop, and how sea levels...
Sand from glacial melt could be Greenland's economic salvation
Feb 12, 2019 (SPX)
The unconventional, yet potentially lucrative solution was developed by scientists from CU Boulder, the University of Copenhagen, Arizona State University and t...
Arctic sea ice loss in the past linked to abrupt climate events
Feb 12, 2019 (SPX)
A team from British Antarctic Survey (BAS), University of Cambridge and University of Birmingham studied data from ice cores drilled in Greenland. They looked a...
Many Arctic lakes give off less carbon than expected
Feb 12, 2019 (SPX)
As permafrost across northern Alaska, Canada, Siberia and other high-latitude regions thaws, microbes in the soil consume organic materials, releasing carbon di...
Russian Arctic archipelago sounds alarm over aggressive polar bears
Feb 09, 2019 (AFP)
Russia's northeastern Novaya Zemlya archipelago, which has a population of around 3,000 people, has appealed for help to tackle "a mass invasion of polar bears ...
Study shows that Vikings enjoyed a warmer Greenland
Feb 07, 2019 (SPX)
Although TV and movies paint Vikings as robust souls, braving subzero temperatures in fur pelts and iron helmets, new evidence indicates they might have been ba...
Melting ice sheets may cause 'climate chaos' according to new modelling
Feb 07, 2019 (SPX)
A study published in Nature is the first to simulate the effects, under current climate policies, that the two melting ice sheets will have on ocean temperature...
Diffusing the methane bomb: We can still make a difference
Feb 07, 2019 (SPX)
When the permafrost thaws, the soil microbes contained in the soil can turn the carbon into carbon dioxide and methane, which are both greenhouse gases that are...
Lost ice age found in the African desert
Feb 05, 2019 (SPX)
While exploring the desert country in southern Africa, they stumbled upon a peculiar land formation - flat desert scattered with hundreds of long, steep hills. ...
Antarctic meltwater streams shed light on longstanding hydrological mystery
Feb 04, 2019 (SPX)
The new study conducted in Antarctica's arid McMurdo Dry Valleys (MDV) region examined the nearly ubiquitous phenomenon that streams in all climates, regardless...
Two-thirds of Himalayan glaciers could melt, study warns
Feb 04, 2019 (AFP)
Even if the most ambitious Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) is achieved, one-third of the glacier...
How predatory plankton created modern ecosystems after 'Snowball Earth'
Feb 04, 2019 (SPX)
'All higher animal life forms, including us humans, produce cholesterol. Algae and bacteria produce their own characteristic fat molecules.' says first author L...
Novel hypothesis goes underground to predict future of Greenland ice sheet
Feb 04, 2019 (SPX)
"There is geologic data that suggests the ice sheet was more sensitive to warming and temperature variations in the past million years, and not so much in the m...
Huge Cavity in Antarctic Glacier Signals Rapid Decay
Feb 01, 2019 (JPL)
Researchers expected to find some gaps between ice and bedrock at Thwaites' bottom where ocean water could flow in and melt the glacier from below. The size and...
Austrian lake offers climate haven for Dutch ice skaters
Feb 01, 2019 (AFP)
Over the past two weeks, thousands of ice skaters -- almost all of them Dutch -- have flocked to the Weissensee lake, 930 metres above sea level in southern Aus...
A landscape unseen in over 40,000 years
Jan 28, 2019 (SPX)
The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, uses radiocarbon dating to determine the ages of plants collected at the edges of 30 ice caps on Baff...
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