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Study confirms link between global warming, glacial retreat in Greenland
Jul 17, 2018 (UPI)
The relationship between the air, ocean water and glaciers along the coast of Greenland is dynamic. The highly variable nature of glacial behavior can complicat...
A bird's eye view of the Arctic
Jul 16, 2018 (SPX)
"We're showing that we have the ability to deploy unmanned aircraft and tethered balloon systems routinely in a very harsh environment for targeted field campai...
Fingerprint of ancient abrupt climate change found in Arctic
Jul 16, 2018 (SPX)
"This abrupt climate change - known as the Younger Dryas - ended more than 1,000 years of warming," explains Lloyd Keigwin, an oceanographer at WHOI and lead au...
Melting triggers melting
Jul 13, 2018 (SPX)
Looking at a world map it appears that the different ocean basins of our globe are constricted by the masses of the continents. In reality, the ocean basins are...
Stronger west winds blow ill wind for climate change
Jul 13, 2018 (SPX)
The westerly winds during that event strengthened as they contracted closer to Antarctica, leading to a domino effect that caused an outgassing of carbon dioxid...
Climate change wreaking havoc with Colombia's glaciers
Jul 13, 2018 (AFP)
The surface area of its six glaciers has shrunk from 45 square kilometers in 2010 to 37 square kilometers in 2017, for a decline of 18 percent, the Institute of...
Win for wildlife as krill fishing restricted in Antarctica
Jul 10, 2018 (AFP)
The vast frozen continent is home to penguins, seals, whales and other marine life with krill a staple food for many species. But a combination of climate chang...
Study identifies which marine mammals are most at risk from increased Arctic ship traffic
Jul 03, 2018 (SPX)
In recent decades parts of the Arctic seas have become increasingly ice-free in late summer and early fall. As sea ice is expected to continue to recede due to ...
Researchers discover volcanic heat source under glacier
Jun 28, 2018 (SPX)
The discovery and other findings, which are critical to understanding the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, of which the Pine Island Glacier is a part,...
Climate change sinking Arctic archeological treasures
Jun 28, 2018 (AFP)
For millennia, the cold has conserved ivory artifacts, driftwood houses and human remains in often near-perfect conditions. But with faster and more severe clim...
UTMN scientists confirm the high speed of Siberia development
Jun 28, 2018 (SPX)
Yermak Timofeyevich, a Cossack ataman who started the conquest of Siberia, is known to every citizen of Russia. Confirmed by a number of chronicles, the importa...
Antarctic ice sheet is melting, but rising bedrock below could slow it down
Jun 26, 2018 (SPX)
The study, "Observed rapid bedrock uplift in the Amundsen Sea Embayment promotes ice-sheet stability," reveals new insights on the geology of the region and its...
New study explains Antarctica's coldest temperatures
Jun 26, 2018 (SPX)
After sifting through data from several Earth-observing satellites, scientists announced in 2013 that they found surface temperatures of -93 degrees Celsius (-1...
Earth's squishy interior gives rapid rise to Antarctica
Jun 25, 2018 (ESA)
Around 20 000 years ago, vast expanses of Earth's surface were covered in thick ice. In some places the ice was 3 km thick - just like central Antarctica and Gr...
OMG, the water's warm! NASA study solves glacier puzzle
Jun 25, 2018 (SPX)
Using ocean data from NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) campaign, the study documents a plume of warm water flowing up Tracy's underwater face, and a much c...
Antarctic researchers mark winter solstice with icy plunge
Jun 21, 2018 (AFP)
In temperatures of -22 degrees Celsius (-7.6 degrees Fahrenheit), staff at Australia's Casey research station marked midwinter's day by cutting a small pool in ...
NASA study solves Greenland glacier mystery
Jun 21, 2018 (UPI)
Now, scientists know why. New data from NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland survey suggests an especially warm plume of ocean water is melting Tracy from beneath. S...
Bear necessities: cooler home for S. Korea's last polar bear
Jun 21, 2018 (AFP)
Tongki -- a 23-year-old male named after a Japanese cartoon character of the 1980s -- lives in a 330-square-metre (3500-square-foot) concrete enclosure at the E...
Why the tongue of the Pine Island Glacier suddenly shrank
Jun 19, 2018 (SPX)
In February 2017, researchers on board the German research icebreaker Polarstern successfully mapped an area of seafloor previously covered by shelf ice. A comp...
What saved the West Antarctic Ice Sheet 10000 years ago will not save it today
Jun 14, 2018 (SPX)
However, this mechanism is much to slow to prevent dangerous sea-level rise caused by West Antarctica's ice-loss in the present and near future. Only rapid gree...
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