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Arctic sea ice still too thick for regular shipping through Northwest

Oct 02, 2015 (SPX)

Despite climate change, sea ice in the Northwest Passage (NWP) remains too thick and treacherous for it to be a regular commercial Arctic shipping route for man...

Ice samples from Greenland and Russia provide clues to climate

Oct 02, 2015 (SPX)

Scientists at the University of Birmingham have discovered evidence of carbonaceous aerosols - organic dust - transported from Asia and deposited in the Arctic ...

Warmer temperatures stimulate diversity of soil fungi

Oct 02, 2015 (SPX)

Remote and covered by ice for much of the year the Antarctic Peninsula is home to hidden and dynamic communities of microbes that have an important role to play...

King crabs threaten Antarctic ecosystem due to warming ocean

Oct 01, 2015 (SPX)

King crabs may soon become high-level predators in Antarctic marine ecosystems where they haven't played a role in tens of millions of years, according to a new...

UAF model used to estimate Antarctic ice sheet melting

Oct 01, 2015 (SPX)

To see how burning up the Earth's available fossil fuels might affect the Antarctic ice sheet, scientists turned to a computer program developed at the Universi...

NASA to Fly Parallel Science Campaigns at Both Poles

Sep 25, 2015 (SPX)

For the first time in its seven years of flights, NASA's Operation IceBridge, an airborne survey of changes in Earth's polar ice, is conducting overlapping camp...

In the dark polar winter, the animals aren't sleeping

Sep 25, 2015 (SPX)

You might expect that little happens in the Arctic Ocean during the cold and dark winter. But that just isn't so, according to researchers who have sampled the ...

Emissions from melting permafrost could cost $43 trillion

Sep 23, 2015 (SPX)

Increased greenhouse gas emissions from the release of carbon dioxide and methane contained in the Arctic permafrost could result in $43 trillion in additional ...

Russia's Northern Fleet Wraps Up Large-Scale Arctic Drills

Sep 22, 2015 (Sputnik)

The large-scale week-long Arctic drills have come to an end with some 50 warships, submarines and other vessels, as well as over 10 aircraft successfully comple...

Solving the problem of sea ice thickness distribution using molecular concepts

Sep 18, 2015 (SPX)

Yale University scientists have answered a 40-year-old question about Arctic ice thickness by treating the ice floes of the frozen seas like colliding molecules...

Melting Arctic sea ice accelerates methane emissions

Sep 18, 2015 (SPX)

Methane emissions from Arctic tundra increase when sea ice melts, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden. This connection has been suspected be...

Adaptation to high-fat diet, cold had profound effect on Inuit, including shorter height

Sep 18, 2015 (SPX)

The traditional diet of Greenland natives - the Inuit - is held up as an example of how high levels of omega-3 fatty acids can counterbalance the bad health eff...

Arctic mosquitoes thriving under climate change, Dartmouth study finds

Sep 16, 2015 (SPX)

Warming temperatures are causing Arctic mosquitoes to grow faster and emerge earlier, significantly boosting their population and threatening the caribou they f...

Arctic sea ice summertime minimum is fourth lowest on record

Sep 16, 2015 (SPX)

According to a NASA analysis of satellite data, the 2015 Arctic sea ice minimum extent is the fourth lowest on record since observations from space began. The a...

Climate research: Where is the world's permafrost thawing

Sep 15, 2015 (SPX)

This Saturday at a conference in Quebec, Canada an international research team will present the first online data portal on global permafrost. In the Global Ter...

Blankets cover Swiss glacier in vain effort to halt icemelt

Sep 15, 2015 (AFP)

From afar, the Rhone glacier looks pristine, but on closer inspection the surface is covered with white blankets to slow the melting of the rapidly retreating i...

Burning remaining fossil fuel could cause 60-meter sea level rise

Sep 15, 2015 (SPX)

New work from an international team including Carnegie's Ken Caldeira demonstrates that the planet's remaining fossil fuel resources would be sufficient to melt...

Archaeologists piece together how crew survived 1813 shipwreck in Alaska

Sep 15, 2015 (SPX)

Working closely with the U.S. Forest Service and the Sitka Tribe of Alaska, an international team of researchers funded by the National Science Foundation has b...

Reconstructing a vanished bird community from the Ice Age

Sep 14, 2015 (SPX)

Visit Peru's Talara Tar Seeps today and you'll see a desert, but 15,000 years ago, the area was grassland and forest, roamed by dire wolves and saber-toothed ca...

The Antarctic Ocean has increased its absorption of CO2

Sep 11, 2015 (AFP)

Defying earlier fears, the Antarctic Ocean has been absorbing increasing amounts of carbon dioxide over the past decade, researchers reported Thursday. The find...