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Slow flow for glaciers thinning in Asia
Dec 11, 2018 (ESA)
A paper published recently in Nature Geoscience describes how a multitude of satellite images have been used to reveal that there has actually been a slowdown i...
Ozone depletion increases Antarctic snowfall, partially mitigates ice sheet loss
Dec 11, 2018 (SPX)
The findings, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, show a distinct signal linking stratospheric ozone loss above Antarctica with increased pre...
Arctic's record warming driving broad environment change; infrastructure risks
Dec 11, 2018 (AFP)
Persistent heat records have assaulted the fragile Arctic for each of the past five years -- a record-long warming streak, said the 2018 Arctic Report Card, rel...
More Glaciers in East Antarctica Are Waking Up
Dec 11, 2018 (SPX)
In recent years, researchers have warned that Totten Glacier, a behemoth that contains enough ice to raise sea levels by at least 11 feet, appears to be retreat...
Fighting climate change in the shadow of Mount Everest
Dec 11, 2018 (AFP)
Scientists warn that as climate change causes Himalayan glaciers to melt at an alarming rate, lakes like Imja could swell further and eventually collapse, trigg...
The fauna in the Antarctica is threatened by pathogens humans spread in polar latitudes
Dec 11, 2018 (SPX)
Explorers, whalers, scientists -and lately, tourists-, are examples of human collectives that moved to the furthest regions of the planet. Some studies have cla...
Ice is a lifeline for the world's coldest region
Dec 07, 2018 (AFP)
After an hour of cutting ice blocks out of the lake in temperatures of minus 41 degrees Celsius (minus 42 Fahrenheit), cold vapour has frosted his eyelashes. Bu...
Greenland ice loss quickening
Dec 07, 2018 (ESA)
The research, published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, uses radar altimetry data gathered by the ERS, Envisat and CryoSat missions between 1992 and 201...
Wintertime Arctic Sea Ice Growth Slows Long-term Decline: NASA
Dec 07, 2018 (SPX)
As temperatures in the Arctic have warmed at double the pace of the rest of the planet, the expanse of frozen seawater that blankets the Arctic Ocean and neighb...
Greenland ice sheet melt 'off the charts' compared with past four centuries
Dec 06, 2018 (SPX)
"Melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet has gone into overdrive. As a result, Greenland melt is adding to sea level more than any time during the last three and a h...
Launch of an Atlas on the retreat of Andean glaciers and the reduction of glacial waters
Dec 05, 2018 (SPX)
Most glaciers have been retreating for decades due to climate change, a problem that has been particularly acute in the tropical Andes since the 1950s. In Peru,...
Quirky glacial behavior explained
Dec 03, 2018 (SPX)
Now, a new assessment by a multi-institutional, CIRES-led team has harnessed a novel, highly detailed dataset to identify the factors that caused the speedup an...
Disappearing Arctic sea ice threatens Canada's polar bears: expert panel
Dec 03, 2018 (AFP)
"It is clear we will need to keep a close eye on this species," Graham Forbes, co-chair of the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC...
Earth's polar regions communicate via oceanic 'postcards,' atmospheric 'text messages'
Dec 03, 2018 (SPX)
In a new study published this week in Nature, an international team of scientists describe how extremely abrupt climate change events 60,000 to 12,000 years ago...
Icelandic language fighting tsunami of English
Nov 30, 2018 (AFP)
Currently spoken by the 355,000 inhabitants of this North Atlantic island, Icelandic has repeatedly come under threat through the ages -- following migrations, ...
Eurasian ice age wiped out the Siberian unicorn
Nov 27, 2018 (UPI)
According to a new study, the Siberian unicorn, Elasmotherium sibiricum, went extinct around 35,000 years ago. There were once as many as 250 rhino species. Tod...
Local drivers of amplified Arctic warming
Nov 26, 2018 (SPX)
A new international research study on the cause of Arctic amplification published this week in the journal Nature Climate Change shows that local greenhouse gas...
Is Antarctica becoming more like Greenland?
Nov 23, 2018 (SPX)
Meltwater is now ponding on the surface of Antarctica's inland ice and in larger and more numerous ponds on the ice shelves surrounding the continent. This crea...
Antarctic melting slows atmospheric warming and speeds sea level rise
Nov 21, 2018 (SPX)
The study is the first to project how the melting of the Antarctic ice sheet will affect future climate, said first author Ben Bronselaer of the University of A...
Antarctica's hidden landscape shaped by rivers in warmer era
Nov 20, 2018 (SPX)
The continent's mountains and valleys, mostly covered by ice up to 4 kilometres thick, were formed millions of years ago, after Antarctica's landmass separated ...
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