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Information theory offers new way to read ice cores
Dec 07, 2016 (SPX)
At two miles long and five inches in diameter, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide (WAIS) ice core is a tangible record of the last 68,000 years of our planet's...
Sea ice hit record lows in November
Dec 07, 2016 (SPX)
Unusually high air temperatures and a warm ocean have led to a record low Arctic sea ice extent for November, according to scientists at the National Snow and I...
Greenland's ice-free past exposes sea level rise danger
Dec 07, 2016 (AFP)
The massive Greenland ice sheet has melted away at least once during the last 1.4 million years, according to a study published on Wednesday, raising fears that...
Polar bear numbers to plunge a third as sea ice melts
Dec 07, 2016 (AFP)
Polar bear numbers could drop a third by mid-century, according to the first systematic assessment, released Wednesday, of how dwindling Arctic sea ice affects ...
When permafrost melts, what happens to all that stored carbon
Dec 06, 2016 (SPX)
The Arctic's frozen ground contains large stores of organic carbon that have been locked in the permafrost for thousands of years. As global temperatures rise, ...
During last warming period, Antarctica heated up 2 to 3 times more than planet average
Dec 06, 2016 (SPX)
Following Earth's last ice age, which peaked 20,000 years ago, the Antarctic warmed between two and three times the average temperature increase worldwide, acco...
Permafrost loss changes Yukon River chemistry with global implications
Dec 02, 2016 (SPX)
Permafrost loss due to a rapidly warming Alaska is leading to significant changes in the freshwater chemistry and hydrology of Alaska's Yukon River Basin with p...
Arctic freeze slows down
Dec 02, 2016 (ESA)
ESA's CryoSat satellite has found that the Arctic has one of the lowest volumes of sea ice of any November, matching record lows in 2011 and 2012. Early winter ...
American scientists discover the first Antarctic ground beetle
Nov 29, 2016 (SPX)
Fossilised forewings from two individuals, discovered on the Beardmore Glacier, revealed the first ground beetle known from the southernmost continent. It is al...
A reindeer's perilous journey in Swedish Lapland
Nov 29, 2016 (AFP)
A herd of reindeer moves silently down the mountain, their silver coats and majestic antlers blending into the Swedish tundra as their herder leads them to thei...
West Antarctic ice shelf breaking up from the inside out
Nov 29, 2016 (SPX)
A key glacier in Antarctica is breaking apart from the inside out, suggesting that the ocean is weakening ice on the edges of the continent. The Pine Island Gla...
After 5-year study, scientists say unchecked Arctic melting may bring irreversible change
Nov 25, 2016 (UPI)
Quickly melting ice in the Arctic with no effort to stop it may someday bring a stage where critical ecological change is uncontrollable, a team of internationa...
Thinning and retreat of West Antarctic glacier began in 1940s
Nov 25, 2016 (SPX)
New research by an international team shows that the present thinning and retreat of Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica is part of a climatically forced tre...
New arrivals at remotest base on Earth - will you be next
Nov 25, 2016 (ESA)
The next medical doctor to spend a year at the Concordia research base in Antarctica arrived this week by aircraft. Carole Dangoisse from Belgium will live and ...
West Antarctic glacier began retreat in the 1940s
Nov 23, 2016 (UPI)
In recent years, the thinning and retreat of the glaciers making up the West Antarctic ice sheet has become increasingly apparent. But the trend isn't new. Rese...
Most meltwater in Greenland fjords likely comes from icebergs, not glaciers
Nov 22, 2016 (SPX)
Icebergs contribute more meltwater to Greenland's fjords than previously thought, losing up to half of their volume as they move through the narrow inlets, acco...
Enhanced nitrous oxide emissions found in Arctic
Nov 22, 2016 (SPX)
The Arctic is warming rapidly, with projected temperature increases larger than anywhere else in the world. The Arctic regions are particularly important with r...
NASA Nears Finish Line of Annual Study of Changing Antarctic Ice
Nov 22, 2016 (SPX)
Operation IceBridge, NASA's airborne survey of changes in polar ice, is closing in on the end of its eighth consecutive Antarctic deployment, and will likely ti...
Probing Greenland's ice sheet for future satellites
Nov 17, 2016 (ESA)
With a helicopter the sole feature on the vast expanse of ice and her only way back to warmth and safety, polar scientist Anna Hogg must have thought, "What on ...
Extremely Warm 2015-'16 Winter Cyclone Weakened Arctic Sea Ice Pack
Nov 16, 2016 (SPX)
A large cyclone that crossed the Arctic in December 2015 brought so much heat and humidity to this otherwise frigid and dry environment that it thinned and shru...
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