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Humans to blame for bulk of Arctic sea ice loss: study
Mar 13, 2017 (AFP)
Natural changes in the environment are responsible for about 40 percent of Arctic sea ice loss, while humans are to blame for the rest, a climate study said Mon...
World's first museum of polar lands opens in France
Mar 11, 2017 (AFP)
As global warming reshapes the Arctic and Antarctic, a new museum built by the son of a renowned French explorer aims to show "the beauty of polar landscapes" a...
Is Arctic sea ice doomed to disappear?
Mar 06, 2017 (AFP)
There's good and bad news for people, and polar bears, threatened by the Arctic's vanishing sea ice, scientists said Monday. First the good news: summer ice cov...
NASA study improves forecasts of summer Arctic sea ice
Mar 03, 2017 (SPX)
The Arctic has been losing sea ice over the past several decades as Earth warms. However, each year, as the sea ice starts to melt in the spring following its m...
UN reports Antarctica's highest temperatures on record
Mar 01, 2017 (AFP)
The UN's World Meteorological Organization published the highest temperatures on record in three Antarctic zones Wednesday, setting a benchmark for studying how...
Arctic sea ice decline influences European weather
Mar 01, 2017 (SPX)
The dramatic loss of Arctic sea ice through climate change is unlikely to lead to more severe winter weather across Northern Europe, new research has shown. A p...
International team reports ocean acidification spreading rapidly in Arctic Ocean
Feb 28, 2017 (SPX)
Ocean acidification (OA) is spreading rapidly in the western Arctic Ocean in both area and depth, according to new interdisciplinary research reported in Nature...
Air pollution may have masked mid-20th Century sea ice loss
Feb 28, 2017 (SPX)
Humans may have been altering Arctic sea ice longer than previously thought, according to researchers studying the effects of air pollution on sea ice growth in...
Simple rule predicts when an ice age ends
Feb 24, 2017 (SPX)
A simple rule can accurately predict when Earth's climate warms out of an ice age, according to new research led by UCL. In a new study published in Nature, res...
Local weather impacts melting of one of Antarctica's fastest-retreating glaciers
Feb 21, 2017 (SPX)
Local weather plays an important part in the retreat of the ice shelves in West Antarctica, according to new research published in the journal Nature Communicat...
Sentinels warn of dangerous ice crack
Feb 17, 2017 (ESA)
Following the appearance of a large crack in the ice shelf close to the Halley VI research station in Antarctica, information from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 and...
Descent into a Frozen Underworld
Feb 17, 2017 (JPL)
Mt. Erebus is at the end of our world - and offers a portal to another. It's our planet's southernmost active volcano, reaching 12,448 feet (3,794 meters) above...
How an Ice Age paradox could inform sea level rise predictions
Feb 17, 2017 (SPX)
New findings from the University of Michigan explain an Ice Age paradox and add to the mounting evidence that climate change could bring higher seas than most m...
New pathway for Greenland meltwater to reach ocean identified
Feb 17, 2017 (SPX)
Cracks in the Greenland Ice Sheet let one of its aquifers drain to the ocean, new NASA research finds. The aquifers, discovered only recently, are unusual in th...
Arctic cultures take climate fight to Berlin film fest
Feb 17, 2017 (AFP)
They are fighting to preserve their ancient lifestyles and the very ground under their feet as the Arctic ice cap shrinks and the tundra's permafrost slowly tur...
Antarctic sea ice extent sets record low
Feb 17, 2017 (UPI)
It's summer in Antarctica, and according to the British Antarctic Survey, this year's seasonal sea ice minimum in Antarctica is the smallest on record. On Febru...
Sea ice at poles hit record low for January
Feb 16, 2017 (AFP)
The amount of sea ice at the Earth's poles fell to a record low for January, while the planet's temperatures last month were the third highest in modern times, ...
New study explains decade of glacial growth in New Zealand
Feb 15, 2017 (UPI)
Globally, glaciers have been on the retreat for several decades. Between 1983 and 2008, however, at least 58 New Zealand glaciers grew in size. Scientists have ...
CryoSat reveals lake outbursts beneath Antarctic ice
Feb 10, 2017 (ESA)
A novel way of using ESA's CryoSat mission has revealed how lakes beneath Thwaites Glacier drained into the Amundsen Sea - potentially the largest such outflow ...
NASA, UCI Reveal New Details of Greenland Ice Loss
Feb 10, 2017 (JPL)
Less than a year after the first research flight kicked off NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland campaign last March, data from the new program are providing a drama...
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