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Human-made climate change suppresses the next ice age
Jan 14, 2016 (SPX)
Humanity has become a geological force that is able to suppress the beginning of the next ice age, a study now published in the renowned scientific journal Natu...
Ice sheets may be hiding vast reservoirs of powerful greenhouse gas
Jan 14, 2016 (SPX)
The study indicates that under the frigid weight of Barents Sea Ice sheet, which covered northern Eurasia some 22 000 years ago, significant amounts of methane ...
Greenland ice sheet melts more when it's cloudy
Jan 13, 2016 (SPX)
Clouds play a bigger role in the melting of the Greenland ice sheet than was previously assumed. Compared to clear skies, clouds enhance the meltwater runoff by...
Mountains west of Boulder continue to lose ice as climate warms
Jan 13, 2016 (SPX)
New research led by the University of Colorado Boulder indicates an ongoing loss of ice on Niwot Ridge and the adjacent Green Lakes Valley in the high mountains...
Clouds, like blankets, trap heat and are melting the Greenland Ice Sheet
Jan 13, 2016 (SPX)
The Greenland Ice Sheet is the second largest ice sheet in the world and it's melting rapidly, likely driving almost a third of global sea level rise. A new stu...
Optimized Arctic observations for improving weather forecast in the northern sea route
Jan 13, 2016 (SPX)
The current reduction in Arctic sea-ice extent causes unpredictable weather phenomena in the Arctic Ocean (strong winds, high waves, and rapid sea-ice movement ...
First ever digital geologic map of Alaska published
Jan 06, 2016 (SPX)
A new digital geologic map of Alaska is being released providing land users, managers and scientists geologic information for the evaluation of land use in rela...
Large and increasing methane emissions from northern lakes
Jan 05, 2016 (SPX)
Methane is increasing in the atmosphere, but many sources are poorly understood. Lakes at high northern latitudes are such a source. However, this may change wi...
Antarctic clouds studied again after 50-year break
Jan 05, 2016 (UPI)
Over the last 50 years, scientists have studied all sorts of things in Antarctica, but they haven't trained their instruments on the clouds. That's finally chan...
Antarctic sea ice melt released carbon from oceans as ice age ended
Jan 05, 2016 (SPX)
A new study reconstructing conditions at the end of the last ice age suggests that as the Antarctic sea ice melted, massive amounts of carbon dioxide that had b...
Climate change altering Greenland ice sheet and accelerating sea level rise
Jan 05, 2016 (SPX)
The Greenland ice sheet has traditionally been pictured as a bit of a sponge for glacier meltwater, but new research has found it is rapidly losing the ability ...
Meltwater from the Greenland ice sheet releasing faster
Jan 05, 2016 (SPX)
The firn layers of the Greenland ice sheet might store less meltwater than previously assumed. Researchers from the USA, Denmark and the University of Zurich fe...
Freak heatwave pushes winter North Pole above freezing
Dec 31, 2015 (AFP)
Temperatures at the North Pole rose above freezing point Wednesday, 20 degrees Celsius above the mid-winter norm and the latest abnormality in a season of extre...
An ice core study to determine the timing and duration of historical climate stages
Dec 30, 2015 (SPX)
Ice core records are rich archives of the climate history during glacial-interglacial cycles over timescales of up to ~800 kyr before the current age. In ice co...
Geologic formation could hold clues to melting glacier floodwaters
Dec 30, 2015 (SPX)
Geologists investigating an unusual landform in the Wabash River Valley in southern Illinois expected to find seismic origins, but instead found the aftermath o...
Methane emissions in Arctic cold season higher than expected
Dec 28, 2015 (SPX)
The amount of methane gas escaping from the ground during the long cold period in the Arctic each year and entering Earth's atmosphere is likely much higher tha...
Chile eyes construction of permanent Antarctica pier
Dec 25, 2015 (AFP)
Chile is carrying out a feasibility study for the construction of a permanent pier at one of its bases in Antarctica, an official was quoted as saying Friday. T...
In Greenland, hopes for climate change to boost economy
Dec 23, 2015 (AFP)
As the world struggles to limit climate change, some people in Greenland hope to cash in on rising temperatures with new species to fish, innovative exports and...
Greenland Ice Sheet during the 20th Century
Dec 22, 2015 (SPX)
For the very first time, climate researchers from the Centre for GeoGenetics at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, together with a national and an Internati...
GHG emissions from Canadian Arctic aquatic systems dated for the first time
Dec 21, 2015 (SPX)
For the first time, researchers have successfully dated the carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) emitted by ponds and lakes on Bylot Island, Nunavut. The rese...
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