ICE WORLD

News About Ice Ages

2,871 articles

Hidden lakes drain below West Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier
Feb 10, 2017 (SPX)
Thwaites Glacier on the edge of West Antarctica is one of the planet's fastest-moving glaciers. Research shows that it is sliding unstoppably into the ocean, ma...
Climate change adds to pressures on endangered African penguins
Feb 09, 2017 (AFP)
Climate change and overfishing have left already endangered young penguins in Africa confused about where to find food, and they are dying in high numbers as a ...
Study shows planet's atmospheric oxygen rose through glaciers
Feb 08, 2017 (SPX)
A University of Wyoming researcher contributed to a paper that determined a "Snowball Earth" event actually took place 100 million years earlier than previously...
Coal mine dust lowers spectral reflectance of Arctic snow by up to 84 percent
Feb 03, 2017 (SPX)
Dust released by an active coal mine in Svalbard, Norway, reduced the spectral reflectance of nearby snow and ice by up to 84 percent, according to new Universi...
Scientists unravel the process of meltwater in ocean depths
Feb 01, 2017 (SPX)
An international team of researchers has discovered why fresh water, melted from Antarctic ice sheets, is often detected below the surface of the ocean, rather ...
The making of Antarctica
Feb 01, 2017 (SPX)
One of the big mysteries in the scientific world is how the ice sheets of Antarctica formed so rapidly about 34 million years ago, at the boundary between the E...
Coal mine dust accelerates snow melt in the Arctic
Feb 01, 2017 (UPI)
According to a new study, dust expelled by a coal mine in Svalbard, Norway, encourages snow and ice melt in the Arctic. The spectral reflectance of nearby snow ...
Antarctic bottom waters freshening at unexpected rate
Jan 27, 2017 (SPX)
In the cold depths along the sea floor, Antarctic Bottom Waters are part of a global circulatory system, supplying oxygen-, carbon- and nutrient-rich waters to ...
Earth's orbital variations and sea ice synch glacial periods
Jan 27, 2017 (SPX)
Earth is currently in what climatologists call an interglacial period, a warm pulse between long, cold ice ages when glaciers dominate our planet's higher latit...
Arctic melt ponds form when meltwater clogs ice pores
Jan 24, 2017 (SPX)
When spring comes to the Arctic, the breakup of the cold winter ice sheets starts at the surface with the formation of melt ponds. These pools of melted snow an...
Sea-surface temps during last interglacial period like modern temps
Jan 20, 2017 (SPX)
Sea-surface temperatures during the last interglaciation period were like those of today, a new study reports. The trend is worrisome, as sea levels during the ...
Massive Antarctic ice shelf ready to break apart
Jan 20, 2017 (AFP)
A chunk of ice half the size of Jamaica which is breaking away from West Antarctica is now attached to its parent ice shelf just by a thread, scientists reporte...
ACE ship completes first leg of journey around Antarctica
Jan 20, 2017 (UPI)
The Akademik Treshnikov, a Russian research vessel, docked in Hobart, Australia, this week after 30 days at sea. The arrival at port marked the completion of An...
UCI researchers map oceanic troughs below ice sheets in West Antarctica
Jan 20, 2017 (SPX)
University of California, Irvine glaciologists have uncovered large oceanic valleys beneath some of the massive glaciers flowing into the Amundsen Sea in West A...
Inception of the last ice age
Jan 18, 2017 (SPX)
The Eurasian ice sheet was the third largest ice mass during the Last Glacial Maximum some 22,000 years ago. Alongside the Antarctic and North American ice shee...
Deep seafloor valleys found beneath West Antarctic glaciers
Jan 18, 2017 (UPI)
New analysis of gravity data, along with bed topography and ice thickness observations, has revealed the presence of large seafloor valleys hiding beneath the g...
Changing atmospheric conditions may contribute to stronger ocean waves in Antarctica
Jan 17, 2017 (SPX)
Over the past few years, a large fracture has grown across a large floating ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula. The world is watching the ice shelf, now poise...
Tracking Antarctic adaptations in diatoms
Jan 17, 2017 (SPX)
Diatoms are a common type of photosynthetic microorganism, found in many environments from marine to soil; in the oceans, they are responsible for more than a t...
Ice cracks force shutdown of UK Antarctic station
Jan 16, 2017 (AFP)
A British research station on an ice shelf in Antarctica is being relocated and shut down over the winter because of fears it could float off on an iceberg, the...
Climate change shows in shrinking Antarctic snows
Jan 14, 2017 (AFP)
Vast icy rock peaks tower above Argentina's Carlini research base in Antarctica. But scientists who have worked here for decades say the glaciers are less icy t...
The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, is Copyright 1995-2026 Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principles for news reporting and research purposes.