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Negribreen on the move
May 17, 2017 (ESA)
Sitting on Norway's Spitsbergen island in the Svalbard archipelago, the Negribreen glacier has recently seen a surge in ice surface speed, increasing from 1 m t...
Irreversible ocean warming threatens the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf
May 15, 2017 (SPX)
When it comes to the fate of the great Antarctic ice shelves, the sea ice surrounding them is of central importance. For example, in the southern Weddell Sea so...
Oversized landforms discovered beneath the Antarctic ice sheet
May 15, 2017 (SPX)
A team of scientists led by the Universite libre de Bruxelles (ULB, Belgium) and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (Germany) have now discovered an active hydrol...
Alaska Tundra Source of Early-Winter Carbon Emissions
May 15, 2017 (JPL)
A new paper led by Roisin Commane, an atmospheric researcher at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, finds the amount of carbon dioxide emitted from ...
Russia and climate change follow Tillerson to Arctic
May 11, 2017 (AFP)
America's top diplomat is in Fairbanks, Alaska on Thursday to chair a meeting of the eight-nation Arctic Cncil, a policy forum for countries with territory in t...
Tillerson hosts Arctic forum in shadow of Russia spat
May 11, 2017 (AFP)
The policy forum for the countries of the great white north got underway in the former gold prospecting town of Fairbanks, far away from the political frenzy gr...
Antarctic study shows central ice sheet is stable since milder times
May 10, 2017 (SPX)
The study of mountains in West Antarctica will help scientists improve their predictions of how the region might respond to continuing climate change. Its findi...
New research shows growth of East Antarctic Ice Sheet was less than previously suggested
May 10, 2017 (SPX)
Its eastern neighbour is, however, ten times larger and has the potential to raise global sea level by some 50 metres. Despite its huge size and importance, con...
Alaska's tundra releasing more CO2 than it takes in: study
May 09, 2017 (AFP)
A question scientists have had is whether a warming climate would lead to a greater intake of CO2 through photosynthesis during the summer growing season. But a...
Antarctic ice rift spreads
May 04, 2017 (SPX)
The main rift in Larsen C, which is likely to lead to one of the largest icebergs ever recorded, is currently 180 km long. The new branch of the rift is 15 km l...
Satellites track Antarctic ice loss over decades
May 04, 2017 (ESA)
The study in Geophysical Research Letters combines over 24 years of radar data from satellites including ESA's Envisat and ERS missions, as well as from the Cop...
Antarctic Peninsula ice more stable than thought
May 04, 2017 (SPX)
An international team of researchers, led by the UK Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling at the University of Leeds, are the first to map the change in ic...
Canada: walrus, caribou face extinction risk in Arctic
May 02, 2017 (AFP)
The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC), which met in Whitehorse, said Monday that the number of Canadian northern wildlife speci...
Warm winds: New insight into what weakens Antarctic ice shelves
Apr 27, 2017 (SPX)
The researchers observed the fohn winds, which blow around 65% of the spring and summer period, extend further south and are more frequent than previously thoug...
Researchers solve the century-old mystery of Blood Falls
Apr 27, 2017 (SPX)
The team's study, published in the Journal of Glaciology, describes the brine's 300-foot path from beneath Taylor Glacier to the waterfall. This path has been a...
New atlas provides highest-resolution imagery of the Polar Regions seafloor
Apr 27, 2017 (SPX)
Over 250 marine geologists and glaciologists from around the world have spent the last four years collating stunning seafloor and glacial landform images to pub...
Climate change clues revealed by ice sheet collapse
Apr 26, 2017 (SPX)
The recently published study shows the greatest changes took place at a time when temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere rose by around 3 C in just 500 years. ...
More Antarctic protections urged on World Penguin Day
Apr 25, 2017 (AFP)
The flightless seabirds -- a favourite with children for their clumsy, waddling gait -- offer a useful yardstick for researchers to judge the health of their ha...
Reindeer at risk from Arctic hot spell
Apr 21, 2017 (AFP)
A vast frozen tundra, the mountainous Finnmark plateau in Norway's far north, is experiencing a hot spell -- relatively speaking -- wreaking havoc on the centur...
Water is streaming across Antarctica
Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)
Many of the newly mapped drainages are not new, but the fact they exist at all is significant; they appear to proliferate with small upswings in temperature, so...
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