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Nature study reveals rapid ice-wedge loss across Arctic

Mar 18, 2016 (SPX)

Permafrost covers a considerable part of the Arctic. Hundreds of meters deep in many places and frozen for millennia, it's been thawing in recent decades, relea...

Carbon from land played a role during last deglaciation

Mar 17, 2016 (SPX)

As the Earth emerged from its last ice age several thousand years ago, atmospheric carbon dioxide increased and further warmed the planet. Scientists have long ...

Early Earth was colder than previously thought

Mar 17, 2016 (UPI)

A number of scientists have previously suggested early Earth was relatively frigid. Now, there's evidence to support the position. When an international team of...

Degrading ice wedges reshape Arctic landscape

Mar 17, 2016 (SPX)

Ice wedges, a common subsurface feature in permafrost landscapes, appear to be rapidly melting throughout the Arctic, according to a new study published in the ...

Warming ocean water undercuts Antarctic ice shelves

Mar 17, 2016 (SPX)

"Upside-down rivers" of warm ocean water threaten the stability of floating ice shelves in Antarctica, according to a new study led by researchers at the Univer...

Degrading underground ice could reshape Arctic landscape

Mar 16, 2016 (SPX)

Rapid melting of ice and Arctic permafrost is altering tundra regions in Alaska, Canada and Russia, according to a new study released in the journal Nature Geos...

NASA tracking the influence of tides on ice shelves in Antarctica

Mar 13, 2016 (SPX)

Ice shelves, the floating extensions of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, are not simply resting on the ocean waters: they rise, fall and bend with the ti...

Australian icebreaker home for repairs after Antarctica grounding

Mar 12, 2016 (AFP)

Australia's flagship icebreaker has arrived home for repairs after running aground in Antarctica, as the government thanked international teams from China, Japa...

In search of Earth's oldest ice

Mar 08, 2016 (SPX)

The search for the world's oldest ice core - likely to be a million years or older - will be among the key topics for a major meeting of climate scientists in H...

Greenland's ice is getting darker, increasing risk of melting

Mar 07, 2016 (SPX)

Greenland's snowy surface has been getting darker over the past two decades, absorbing more heat from the sun and increasing snow melt, a new study of satellite...

How permafrost thawing affects vegetation, carbon cycle

Mar 07, 2016 (SPX)

Neil Sturchio, professor and chair of the University of Delaware's Department of Geological Sciences, is exploring how the thawing of permafrost, a subsurface l...

Russian scuba divers set deepest under-ice dive record

Mar 06, 2016 (UPI)

Two Russian divers say they've set yet another record, this time for deepest dive under ice. The scuba divers recently emerged through a hole in the icy surface...

Cold war prep: Canadian tests Army vehicles in the Arctic

Mar 04, 2016 (UPI)

Canada is conducting trials with two types of vehicles to determine the specific features and capabilities needed for Army operations in Arctic terrain. The Can...

Australian icebreaker heading home after Antarctica grounding

Mar 03, 2016 (AFP)

Australia's flagship icebreaker was Thursday steaming back home with its crew after running aground in Antarctica during a blizzard, with experts saying damage ...

Australian icebreaker refloated in Antarctica after grounding

Feb 27, 2016 (AFP)

An Australian icebreaker that ran aground in Antarctica during a blizzard has been refloated, officials said Saturday as they work to bring the vessel's expedit...

OGC requests information to guide Arctic Spatial Data Pilot

Feb 25, 2016 (SPX)

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) requests information to help advance the "Arctic Spatial Data Pilot". The Arctic Spatial Data Pilot is an OGC Interoperabil...

Australian icebreaker runs aground in Antarctica

Feb 24, 2016 (AFP)

Australia's flagship icebreaker Aurora Australis has broken its mooring in a blizzard and run aground in Antarctica, leaving 67 expeditioners and crew stranded ...

Study of tundra soil demonstrates vulnerability of ecosystem to climate warming

Feb 23, 2016 (SPX)

Findings from one of the first comprehensive field studies by a collaborative team of researchers demonstrate the active layer microbiome of tundra soil was sig...

Antarctic ice sheet is more vulnerable to CO2 than expected

Feb 23, 2016 (SPX)

Results from a new climate reconstruction of how Antarctica's ice sheets responded during the last period when atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) reached levels l...

Ice age blob of warm ocean water discovered south of Greenland

Feb 23, 2016 (SPX)

New research published in Scientific Reports in February indicates that a warm ocean surface water prevailed during the last ice age, sandwiched between two maj...