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New permafrost map shows regions vulnerable to thaw, carbon release
Oct 17, 2016 (SPX)
A new mapping project has identified regions worldwide that are most susceptible to dramatic permafrost thaw formations, known as thermokarst, and the resulting...
Future of Antarctic marine protected at risk
Oct 17, 2016 (SPX)
Antarctica's surrounding waters are home to some of the healthiest marine ecosystems on Earth and support thriving populations of krill, seabirds, fish and whal...
Russia holds key to Antarctic marine sanctuaries
Oct 17, 2016 (AFP)
Talks opened in Australia Monday to create two vast marine sanctuaries aimed at protecting the pristine wilderness of Antarctica with Russia and China key to wh...
Scientists launch unprecedented Antarctic research mission
Oct 17, 2016 (AFP)
More than 50 researchers from 30 countries are to carry out the first scientific full circumnavigation of Antarctica in an attempt to measure pollution and clim...
Antarctica is practically defined by ice. What happens when it melts?
Oct 17, 2016 (SPX)
A single season of intense melting buffeted Antarctica in 2001-2002. It yielded changes that ranged from speeding up microbial food webs to shifting penguin pop...
Reprieve for Australian sub-Antarctic island station
Oct 14, 2016 (AFP)
Australia's permanent sub-Antarctic research base at Macquarie Island has won a reprieve from closure and will instead get a multi-million dollar revamp, the go...
Tracking the amount of sea ice from the Greenland ice sheet
Oct 14, 2016 (SPX)
The Greenland ice sheet records information about Arctic temperature and climate going back to more than 120 000 years ago. But new research from the Niels Bohr...
Historic shrinking of Antarctic Ice Sheet linked to CO2 spike
Oct 13, 2016 (SPX)
Twenty-three million years ago, the Antarctic Ice Sheet began to shrink, going from an expanse larger than today's to one about half its modern size. Computer m...
Ice cores reveal slow decline in oxygen over past 800K years
Oct 07, 2016 (SPX)
Princeton University researchers have compiled 30 years of data to construct the first ice core-based record of atmospheric oxygen concentrations spanning the p...
All polar bears across the Arctic face shorter sea ice season
Oct 05, 2016 (SPX)
Polar bears, the poster-child for climate change, are among the animals most affected by the seasonal and year-to-year changes in Arctic sea ice, because they r...
Northern Lights trump street lights in Iceland
Sep 28, 2016 (AFP)
Street lighting in Reykjavik will be switched off for an hour Wednesday evening to give residents of the Icelandic capital a better view of the Aurora Borealis,...
Global cooling yielded modern ecosystems 7 million years ago
Sep 27, 2016 (UPI)
Many of Earth's ecosystems got their start some 7 million years ago, as global temperatures began to plummet. According to new research by scientists at Brown U...
Arctic Sea Ice Annual Minimum ties second lowest on record
Sep 21, 2016 (SPX)
Arctic sea ice appeared to have reached its annual lowest extent on Sept. 10, NASA and the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the Unive...
Land-based food not nutritionally sufficient for wild polar bears
Sep 19, 2016 (SPX)
A study, by San Diego Zoo Global conservationists, released this week (Sept. 12, 2016) is shedding new light on how scientists evaluate polar bear diet and weig...
Arctic sea ice minimum ties record for second lowest
Sep 16, 2016 (UPI)
Only a month ago, scientists were suggesting the rate of sea ice melting in the Arctic had slowed and the 2016 minimum was unlikely to break any records. Fast-f...
Polar bears losing crucial sea ice: study
Sep 14, 2016 (AFP)
Polar bears are losing life-sustaining sea ice crucial for hunting, resting and breeding in all 19 regions of the Arctic they inhabit, a study warned on Wednesd...
Greenland sets record temperatures, ice melts early
Sep 13, 2016 (AFP)
Temperature records were broken in Greenland this year after parts of the territory's vast ice sheet began melting unusually early, the Danish Meteorological In...
Australia to shut sub-Antarctic research station
Sep 13, 2016 (AFP)
Australia will close its permanent station at Macquarie Island almost seven decades after establishing the sub-Antarctic research facility, officials said Tuesd...
NASA science flights study effect of summer melt on Greenland ice sheet
Sep 07, 2016 (SPX)
Operation IceBridge, NASA's airborne survey of polar ice, is flying in Greenland for the second time this year, to observe the impact of the summer melt season ...
Technique could assess historic changes to Antarctic sea ice and glaciers
Aug 31, 2016 (SPX)
Historic changes to Antarctic sea ice could be unravelled using a new technique pioneered by scientists at Plymouth University. It could also potentially be use...
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