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Microbe study highlights Greenland ice sheet toxicity
Jul 12, 2017 (SPX)
Dr Aviaja Hauptmann, from the University of Greenland, led the research. She said: "Globally emitted contaminants accumulate in the Arctic and are stored in the...
US need for four polar icebreakers 'critical,' warns report
Jul 11, 2017 (AFP)
The cost for each of the new ships is estimated to be $791 million, said the report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Congress...
Greenland's summer ocean bloom likely fueled by iron
Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)
Microalgae, also known as phytoplankton, are plant-like, marine microorganisms that form the base of the food web in many parts of the ocean. "Phytoplankton ser...
Krill hotspot fuels incredible biodiversity in Antarctic region
Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)
Scientists have long known about this important zooplankton species, but they haven't been certain why particular regions or "hotspots" in the Southern Ocean ar...
New study shows West Antarctic Ice Sheet loss over the last 11,000 years
Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)
By studying tiny shells in seafloor sediment cores retrieved from Pine Island Bay in West Antarctica, the team has reconstructed the interactions between the ic...
Figuring out how fast Greenland is melting
Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)
The ice sheet has been shrinking since 1900 and the yearly loss of ice has doubled since 2003, other researchers have shown. The accelerated melting of the Gree...
Giant iceberg in the making
Jul 07, 2017 (ESA)
Monitored by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 radar pair, the crack in the ice is now around 200 km long, leaving just 5 km between the end of the fissure and the ocea...
Huge Antarctic ice block poised to snap off
Jul 05, 2017 (AFP)
When it finally calves from the Larsen C ice shelf, one of the biggest icebergs in recorded history will be set adrift -- some 6,600 square kilometres (2,550 sq...
Climate change impacts Antarctic biodiversity habitat
Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)
Led by University of Queensland School of Biological Sciences PhD student Jasmine Lee, the study is the first to investigate how ice-free areas in Antarctica ma...
More summer sunshine leading to increased Greenland ice melt
Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)
The new findings, published in Science Advances, show that less cloud cover and more summer sunshine allows increased solar radiation to reach the surface provi...
On the march: As polar bears retreat, grizzlies take new territory
Jun 29, 2017 (UPI)
Ten years later, in May 2016, Inuit hunters in Nunavut thought they had shot and killed yet another hybrid – their "pizzly" or "grolar" bear made headlines ar...
Collapse of the European ice sheet caused chaos
Jun 28, 2017 (SPX)
This ice sheet alone lowered global sea-level by over 20 meters. As it melted and collapsed, it caused severe flooding across the continent, led to dramatic sea...
As climate stirs Arctic sea ice faster, pollution tags along
Jun 28, 2017 (SPX)
Declining sea ice is opening more of the Arctic Ocean to industrial development and resource extraction, raising concerns that oil spills and other pollution co...
Widespread snowmelt in West Antarctica during unusually warm summer
Jun 22, 2017 (SPX)
In the June 15 issue of the journal Nature Communications, they report that the warm spell persisted for more than two weeks in January 2016. Satellite data rev...
Bolivian glacier samples ready for global ice archives
Jun 22, 2017 (AFP)
The international ICE Memory project team braved low oxygen and bitter, ice-cold wind that whipped them mercilessly at an altitude of 6,300 meters to drill deep...
Wet and stormy weather lashed California coast... 8,200 years ago
Jun 22, 2017 (SPX)
Before this "8.2 ka event" was discovered scientists thought the world's climate had been unusually stable during the Holocene, the geological epoch that covers...
Scientists throw light on mysterious ice age temperature jumps
Jun 22, 2017 (SPX)
The findings, which have been published in the journal Nature Geoscience, add to mounting evidence suggesting that gradual changes such as a rising CO2 levels c...
Antarctic researchers take icy plunge to mark solstice
Jun 21, 2017 (AFP)
Expeditioners stationed at Australia's Davis station marked midwinter's day by taking a chainsaw to the ice, cutting a small pool and taking a dip in water with...
Early animal evolution got off to a hot start before Ice Age slowdown
Jun 15, 2017 (UPI)
Fossil records show all animal phyla had materialized by the beginning of the Cambrian Period, roughly 540 million years ago. But the scarcity of early animal f...
Finding new homes won't help Emperor penguins cope with climate change
Jun 12, 2017 (SPX)
According to new research led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), they cannot. Scientists report that dispersal may help sustain global Emperor ...
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