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Chilean president makes historic visit to South Pole
Jan 03, 2025 (AFP)
Boric is the first Latin American leader to reach the Earth's southernmost point, according to his office. "This is a milestone for us," Boric said, in footage ...
ESA and NASA collaborate to track Greenland ice sheet melting
Dec 23, 2024 (SPX)
The two satellites employ distinct technologies to measure surface height. CryoSat uses radar altimetry, capable of penetrating clouds and ice surfaces, while I...
Warmer winter melts incomes of China's ice cutters
Dec 18, 2024 (AFP)
Every winter, dozens of workers brave subzero temperatures to hack ice from the mighty Songhua River and deliver it around Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang p...
Melting sea ice in Antarctica causes ocean storms, scientists say
Dec 18, 2024 (AFP)
Scientists know that the loss of Antarctic sea ice can diminish penguin numbers, cause ice shelves to melt in warmer waters, and impede the Southern Ocean from ...
Most arctic coastal infrastructure faces risk of instability by 2100
Dec 17, 2024 (SPX)
The study finds that by 2100, 21% of the 318 settlements situated on Arctic permafrost coastlines are at risk of damage from coastal erosion, while 45% face imp...
One of the largest glacial floods ever documented observed in Greenland
Dec 16, 2024 (SPX)
The event occurred when Catalina Lake, an immense reservoir dammed by the Edward Bailey Glacier, drained 3.4 cubic kilometers of water, equivalent to three time...
Buried landforms unveil ancient glacial history beneath the North Sea
Dec 16, 2024 (SPX)
Using advanced seismic technology, researchers revealed Ice Age features hidden beneath layers of sediment. These landforms, dating back approximately 1 million...
Seals use icebergs as essential platforms in glacier ecosystems
Dec 11, 2024 (SPX)
"Our work provides a direct link between a glacier's advance and seals' distribution and behavior," said Lynn Kaluzienski, a postdoctoral fellow at the Universi...
Antarctic ice melting accelerates under planetary orbital changes
Dec 11, 2024 (SPX)
The research draws parallels between Earth's ancient ice ages and its eccentric orbital patterns. These findings suggest that when Earth's orbit becomes more el...
The Bering Bog Bridge
Dec 10, 2024 (SPX)
"We were looking for several large lakes," said Sarah Fowell, a paleogeologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. "What we actually found was evidence of lo...
Sink to source: Arctic tundra emitting more carbon than it absorbs
Dec 10, 2024 (AFP)
This stark shift is detailed in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's 2024 Arctic Report Card, which revealed that annual surface air temperatur...
Will the Ross Ice Shelf melt
Dec 09, 2024 (SPX)
Associate Professor Molly Patterson, a key member of the science leadership team, is co-leading this initiative. The current expedition coincides with the Antar...
Antarctic sea ice can be explained and forecast months out by patterns in winds
Dec 09, 2024 (SPX)
That began to change in 2016. Several years of decline led to an all-time record low in 2023, more than five standard deviations below the average from the sate...
Canada bolstering Arctic presence in face of Russia threat
Dec 06, 2024 (AFP)
The government envisions the deployment of new patrol ships and navy destroyers, ice breakers and submarines capable of operating beneath ice sheets, as well as...
Recent global temperature surge amplified by record-low planetary albedo
Dec 06, 2024 (SPX)
Researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) propose a critical contributing factor: a significant decline in planetary albedo, or the Earth's reflectivity...
Scientists launch first in-depth study of Antarctic underwater avalanches
Dec 06, 2024 (SPX)
The project, led by Dr. Jenny Gales, Associate Professor in Hydrography and Ocean Exploration at the University of Plymouth, seeks to unravel Antarctica's criti...
Under-ice species face threat as Arctic ice melts
Dec 03, 2024 (SPX)
The study focused on microscopic organisms in four distinct habitats of the Beaufort Sea in northern Canada: open ocean, river mouths, coastal waters, and areas...
Researchers link Arctic warming to rising dust emissions impacting cloud formation
Dec 03, 2024 (SPX)
Traditionally, scientists believed that higher Arctic temperatures would lead to an increase in liquid droplets and a reduction in ice crystals within clouds. T...
Increased snowfall could preserve Patagonian glaciers with immediate emissions cuts
Nov 25, 2024 (SPX)
The study, published in 'Scientific Reports', analyzed the interplay between temperature and precipitation over the past 6,000 years, revealing that precipitati...
Political implications of Antarctic geoengineering debated
Nov 20, 2024 (SPX)
A January 2024 article in 'Nature' brought attention to a plan first introduced by Finnish researchers aimed at saving the West Antarctic Ice Sheet from melting...
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