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Much of East Antarctica remained frozen during past 8 million years
Jun 14, 2018 (SPX)
But efforts to predict the East Antarctic's role in future sea-level rise have been hindered by an absence of data about the ice sheet's response to warming per...
Britain was buried beneath ice sheets 2.5 million years ago
Jun 14, 2018 (UPI)
Until now, researchers thought ice sheets didn't advance across Britain until 1.1 million years ago, but new analysis of sediment cores and seismic data collect...
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...
Largest ice sheet on Earth was stable throughout last warm period
Jun 14, 2018 (SPX)
New research published in Nature shows that land-based sectors of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet were mostly stable throughout the Pliocene (5.3 to 2.6 million ye...
Antarctic ice loss triples, boosting sea levels
Jun 13, 2018 (AFP)
Two-fifths of that ice loss occurred in the last five years, a three-fold increase in the pace at which Antarctica is shedding its kilometres-thick casing, a co...
More detailed data on thermal conditions of Arctic ground
Jun 12, 2018 (SPX)
The research has been carried out by Juha Aalto and Miska Luoto (Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki / Finnish Meteorological Instit...
Long thought silent because of ice, study shows east Antarctica seismically active
Jun 07, 2018 (SPX)
Since the first earthquake was detected in 1982, there have been just eight more seismic events recorded in East Antarctica. But after a team that included Aman...
Ancient Greenland was much warmer than previously thought
Jun 05, 2018 (SPX)
Just beyond the northwest edge of the vast Greenland Ice Sheet, Northwestern University researchers have discovered lake mud that beat tough odds by surviving t...
Phosphorus nutrition can hasten plant and microbe growth in arid, high elevation sites
May 29, 2018 (SPX)
The study, which was recently published in the journal Science Advances, found that even in mountainous terrain above 17,000 feet above sea level, where soils f...
A promising target in the quest for a 1-million-year-old Antarctic ice core
May 24, 2018 (SPX)
But a tantalizing clue recently offered the possibility to go back even further. A collaborative study between the University of Washington and the University o...
Remote camera network tracks Antarctic species at low cost
May 23, 2018 (SPX)
The team of scientists from NOAA Fisheries and several other nations published in the journal Methods in Ecology and Evolution, descriptions of the camera syste...
Canada, Denmark seek to settle Arctic island dispute
May 23, 2018 (AFP)
The row over Hans Island, a barren 1.3 square kilometer (0.5 square mile) rock that sits between Ellesmere and Greenland, dates back to 1973 when the border was...
Arctic coastal powers back 'peaceful' dialogue over disputes
May 22, 2018 (AFP)
Ministers and senior officials from the United States, Canada, Russia, Denmark and Norway gathered for a two-day meeting in western Greenland's coastal town of ...
Traditional knowledge sheds light on changing East Greenland climate and polar bear hunt
May 22, 2018 (SPX)
The hunters have observed large climate changes in their hunting areas - including warmer weather, less sea ice and disappearing glaciers - which the majority s...
Antarctic seals can help predict ice sheet melt
May 22, 2018 (SPX)
Environmental scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have been investigating ways of studying warm, salty, deep water in the Amundsen Sea, in the Sou...
Trump administration moves to lift ban on bear baiting in Alaska
May 22, 2018 (AFP)
Under former president Barack Obama the National Park Service (NPS) in 2015 had prohibited a number of practices -- considered cruel and harmful by animal prote...
Antarctica tourism regulation urgent for environment: summit
May 17, 2018 (AFP)
In the absence of rules, travel agencies offer trips to the region on boats sometimes equipped with helicopters or submarines, according to Segolene Royal, Fren...
Ice stream draining Greenland Ice Sheet sensitive to changes over past 45,000 years
May 15, 2018 (SPX)
Interestingly, the loss of ice from the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream (NEGIS) took place not only during the warm Holocene period, but also during a period tho...
NASA completes survey flights to map Arctic springtime ice
May 14, 2018 (SPX)
"This campaign achieved most of our primary objectives in surveying the state of Arctic ice," said IceBridge's acting project scientist Joe MacGregor. "We've no...
Geoscientists suggest 'snowball Earth' resulted from plate tectonics
May 10, 2018 (SPX)
The research was published online in December 2017 and in the April print edition of the journal Terra Nova. Plate tectonics is a theory formulated in the late ...
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