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Antarctica retreating across the sea floor

Apr 03, 2018 (SPX)

Research by the UK Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling (CPOM) at the University of Leeds has produced the first complete map of how the ice sheet's subma...

Ice-free Arctic summers could hinge on small climate warming range

Apr 03, 2018 (SPX)

The findings, which were published in the journal Nature Climate Change, show that limiting warming to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) would reduce...

Extreme winter weather, such as 'Beast from the East', can be linked to solar cycle

Apr 03, 2018 (SPX)

A new study, led by Dr Indrani Roy from the University of Exeter, has revealed when the solar cycle is in its 'weaker' phase, there are warm spells across the A...

NASA Begins Latest Airborne Arctic Ice Survey

Mar 27, 2018 (SPX)

On March 22, NASA completed the first IceBridge flight of its spring Arctic campaign with a survey of sea ice north of Greenland. This year marks the tenth Arct...

Arctic Wintertime Sea Ice Extent Is Among Lowest On Record

Mar 27, 2018 (SPX)

On March 17, the Arctic sea ice cover peaked at 5.59 million square miles (14.48 million square kilometers), making it the second lowest maximum on record, at a...

Team discovers a significant role for nitrate in the Arctic landscape

Mar 27, 2018 (SPX)

The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that plants in northern Alaska's tussock tundra took up nitrate at comparable rat...

UNH researchers find landscape ridges may hold clues about ice age and climate change

Mar 23, 2018 (SPX)

In their study, recently published in the Journal of Quaternary Science, the researchers used data collected from extremely high-resolution LiDAR (light and det...

Another season, another historic low for Arctic wintertime sea ice

Mar 23, 2018 (UPI)

Every year, the Arctic's sea ice grows in the winter and shrinks in the summer, reaching two extents, a maximum and a minimum. In recent years, both extents hav...

Germany was blanketed by ice some 450,000 years ago

Mar 23, 2018 (UPI)

New research suggests Germany was covered by glaciers as early as 450,000 years ago, and that the earliest human settlers arrived as glaciers receded some 400,0...

Geoengineering polar glaciers to slow sea-level rise

Mar 20, 2018 (SPX)

Previous discussions of geoengineering have looked at global projects, like seeding the atmosphere with particles to reflect more sunlight. That's what makes th...

Glacier mass loss: Past the point of no return

Mar 20, 2018 (SPX)

What does this plan - if successful - mean for the evolution of glaciers? Climate researchers Ben Marzeion and Nicolas Champollion from the Institute of Geograp...

Arctic sea ice becoming a spring hazard for North Atlantic ships

Mar 20, 2018 (SPX)

The new research finds ocean passages typically plugged with ice in the winter and spring are opening up. Sea ice normally locked in the Arctic then can flow fr...

Thawing permafrost produces more methane than expected

Mar 20, 2018 (SPX)

Until now, it was assumed that larger amounts of greenhouse gases are formed when the ground was dry and well aerated - when oxygen was available. Christian Kno...

Soot transported from elsewhere in world contributes little to melting of some Antarctic glaciers

Mar 20, 2018 (SPX)

Strong winds in the Dry Valleys, however, can temporarily cause large spikes in the amount of locally produced black carbon, which is distributed through the ec...

Sea level fears as more of giant Antarctic glacier floating than thought

Mar 20, 2018 (AFP)

The Totten Glacier is one of the fastest-flowing and largest glaciers in Antarctica with scientists keen to keep a close eye on how it melts given the enormous ...

Study helps explain Greenland glaciers' varied vulnerability to melting

Mar 19, 2018 (SPX)

"The undersides of glaciers in deeper valleys are exposed to warm, salty Atlantic water, while the others are perched on sills, protected from direct exposure t...

Chain reaction of fast-draining lakes poses new risk for Greenland ice sheet

Mar 16, 2018 (SPX)

Lakes form on the surface of the Greenland ice sheet each summer as the weather warms. Many exist for weeks or months, but drain in just a few hours through mor...

Glaciers in Mongolia's Gobi Desert actually shrank during the last ice age

Mar 08, 2018 (SPX)

The recent paper in Quaternary Science Reviews is the first to date ancient glaciers in the high mountains of Mongolia's Gobi Desert. It compares them with glac...

Research brief: Shifting tundra vegetation spells change for arctic animals

Mar 08, 2018 (SPX)

Pinpointing a cause has been difficult. However, new UMN research published in Environmental Research Letters found that regardless of soil fertility or rainfal...

Far northern permafrost may unleash carbon within decades

Mar 07, 2018 (JPL)

The study calculated that as thawing continues, by the year 2300, total carbon emissions from this region will be 10 times as much as all human-produced fossil ...