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Eocene fossil data suggest climate models may underestimate polar warming
Jan 24, 2018 (SPX)
By studying the chemical composition of fossilized foraminifera, tiny single-celled animals that lived in shallow tropical waters, a team of researchers generat...
Mothers and young struggle as Arctic warms
Jan 23, 2018 (SPX)
Muskoxen mothers can provide safety to their calves by warding off predators, and offer health in the form of good nutrition during pregnancy. In the wild, bigg...
Warming Arctic climate constrains life in cold-adapted mammals
Jan 23, 2018 (SPX)
A new study led by Joel Berger, professor in the Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology at Colorado State University, has uncovered previously un...
Coping with climate stress in Antarctica
Jan 19, 2018 (SPX)
The study, published recently in the journal Global Change Biology, of emerald rockcod is the first to show that Antarctic fishes may make tradeoffs in their ph...
Weather anomalies accelerate the melting of sea ice
Jan 17, 2018 (SPX)
"We heard about this from the media," says Heini Wernli, Professor of Atmospheric Dynamics at ETH Zurich. The news aroused his scientific curiosity, and a team ...
Machine learning predicts new details of geothermal heat flux beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet
Jan 15, 2018 (SPX)
Among the key findings: Greenland has an anomalously high heat flux in a relatively large northern region spreading from the interior to the east and west. Sout...
Shedding some light on life in the Arctic
Jan 15, 2018 (SPX)
Since 2014, University of Delaware marine scientist Jonathan Cohen has been studying how winter darkness in the polar night affects biological processes and mar...
Scientists find surprising evidence of rapid changes in the Arctic
Jan 09, 2018 (SPX)
The finding indicates that large-scale changes are happening along the coast - because the source of the radium is the land and shallow continental shelves surr...
Methane hydrate dissociation off Spitsbergen not caused by climate change
Jan 09, 2018 (SPX)
Spitsbergen has been experiencing severe outgassing for several years. Does the methane originate from decomposed methane hydrates? What is the cause of the dis...
In Antarctic dry valleys, early signs of climate change-induced shifts in soil
Jan 09, 2018 (SPX)
There are no plants, birds or mammals in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, located in the largest region of the Antarctic continent. But microbes and microscopic soil in...
New study reveals strong El Nino events cause large changes in Antarctic ice shelves
Jan 09, 2018 (SPX)
El Nino and La Nina are two distinct phases of the El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO), a naturally occurring phenomenon characterized by how water temperatures...
Rapid climatic changes are afoot in the Arctic
Jan 03, 2018 (UPI)
During recent Arctic surveys, a team of researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution measured surprisingly high levels of radium-228. The isotope has...
NASA satellite spots shattered iceberg beneath the Arctic's midnight sun
Dec 29, 2017 (UPI)
B-44 is the berg that calved from Pine Island Glacier in September. Pine Island Glacier is one of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet's main outflows. B-44 was the sec...
Warming seas double snowfall around North America's tallest peaks
Dec 28, 2017 (SPX)
The research not only finds a dramatic increase in snowfall, it further explains connections in the global climate system by attributing the record accumulation...
Algae growth is accelerating melting in Greenland
Dec 21, 2017 (UPI)
Previous studies have focused on the role dust and black carbon play in encouraging melting, but the latest study -- published this week in the journal Geophysi...
NASA scientists embark on extreme Antarctic Trek
Dec 18, 2017 (SPX)
They're packing extreme cold-weather gear and scientific instruments onto sleds pulled by two tank-like snow machines called PistenBullys, and on Dec. 21 they w...
A dynamic East Antarctic ice sheet has repeatedly grown and shrunk
Dec 18, 2017 (SPX)
But new research, led by The University of Texas at Austin and the University of South Florida (USF) and funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), found ...
Putin says Arctic exploration a priority for Russia
Dec 14, 2017 (AFP)
Speaking at his annual end of year conference on Thursday, Putin stressed the importance of the Arctic for Russia and called it a main source for the country's ...
World-first uses satellites and ocean models to explain Antarctic seafloor biodiversity
Dec 14, 2017 (SPX)
The researchers combined satellite images of phytoplankton colour on the sea surface with a suite of connected models of how the microscopic phytoplankton are s...
Tiny ice losses at Antarctica's fringes can accelerate ice loss far away
Dec 14, 2017 (SPX)
So far it was assumed that the ice flow is most vulnerable to melting at the base near the grounding line where the ice flows from land into the sea and becomes...
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