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New Arctic Databases Highlight Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change
Oct 17, 2024 (SPX)
Key findings documented in the newly established databases include: + Detection of microplastics in Sami rivers and lakes for the first time + Gwich'in traditio...
Kyrgyzstan opens rare probe into glacier destruction
Oct 11, 2024 (AFP)
Glaciers are thick masses of ice that form on land from centuries of compressed snow. They provide a vital source of freshwater in Kyrgyzstan, a landlocked coun...
Scientists predict rising CO2 emissions from Arctic rocks due to global warming
Oct 11, 2024 (SPX)
In the Arctic, where certain minerals react with oxygen, rocks release CO2 through chemical weathering. Sulfide minerals like fool's gold create acid during thi...
Ecuador's last mountain iceman dies at 80
Oct 11, 2024 (AFP)
Ushca was a legend in the Andean country and beyond, as the last practitioner of the age-old profession of ice harvester on Mount Chimborazo, a dormant volcano ...
Australia moves to expand Antarctic marine park
Oct 08, 2024 (AFP)
The marine reserve -- Heard Island and McDonald Island -- located 1,700 kilometres (1,056 miles) from Antarctica, will quadruple in size under the announcement....
Nepalis fear more floods as climate change melts glaciers
Oct 05, 2024 (AFP)
It took just moments for freezing floodwaters to engulf Thame in the foothills of Mount Everest, a disaster that climate change scientists say is an ominous sig...
Antarctic vegetation expanding rapidly in response to climate change
Oct 04, 2024 (SPX)
The study, published in 'Nature Geoscience', utilized satellite data to examine how climate change has spurred the Antarctic Peninsula's "greening" process. The...
New study finds Antarctica is rapidly greening due to climate change
Oct 04, 2024 (UPI)
Greening has increased on the Antarctic Peninsula from less than 1.1 square miles in 1986 to nearly 14.3 square miles in 2021. "Antarctica has experienced signi...
Despite snowy winter, Swiss glaciers 'on track to disappear': monitor
Oct 01, 2024 (AFP)
The past 12 months have been "exceptional both in terms of accumulation and melt" for Swiss glaciers, a Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland (GLAMOS) study showed ...
Study links climate change to explosive methane release in Siberian permafrost
Sep 27, 2024 (SPX)
The study points to the region's unique geology and climate warming as causes for the release of methane gas trapped within the permafrost. "There are very, ver...
Unique polar light conditions may promote biodiversity through hybridization
Sep 26, 2024 (SPX)
In a recent paper, Professor Kari Saikkonen and his team present a theory that the distinct light environments of the polar regions contribute to the creation o...
Atmospheric shifts slow Greenland's largest glacier melting
Sep 25, 2024 (SPX)
"We were surprised to discover this abrupt cooling, which is a marked contrast to the long-term regional ocean warming we've observed in the influx to the glaci...
Explaining dramatic planetwide changes after world's last 'Snowball Earth' event
Sep 19, 2024 (SPX)
These "Snowball Earth" events have happened only a handful of times and do not occur on regular cycles. Each lasts for millions of years or tens of millions of ...
Windracers to supply NORCE with ULTRA aircraft for Antarctic research
Sep 19, 2024 (SPX)
The Windracers ULTRAs are set to contribute to the Troll Observing Network (TONe), a cutting-edge observation network focused on one of the least-studied region...
Antarctic ice loss could accelerate dramatically after 2100
Sep 16, 2024 (SPX)
Current ice-sheet models present uncertainty regarding the future of Antarctica's glaciers after 2100, the researchers explained in their publication in 'Earth'...
'Disappeared completely': melting glaciers worry Central Asia
Sep 16, 2024 (AFP)
At an altitude of 4,000 metres, the 35-year-old researcher is surrounded by the giant peaks of the towering Tian Shan range that also stretches into China, Kaza...
Massive Greenland tsunami behind mysterious nine-day seismic event
Sep 13, 2024 (AFP)
According to a report recently published in the scientific journal Science, tremors that were registered in September 2023 originated from the massive wave rock...
Greenland urges Denmark to confront its dark past
Sep 13, 2024 (AFP)
Danish authorities between the 1960s and the 1990s forced more than 4,500 young Inuit women to wear a contraceptive coil -- or intrauterine device (IUD) -- with...
Researchers explore cloud dynamics in the Arctic to enhance climate models
Sep 10, 2024 (SPX)
During the study, researchers employed specialized aircraft to examine the movement of air masses between the Arctic and surrounding regions. This included stud...
NASA begins monitoring polar heat emissions in far-infrared spectrum
Sep 05, 2024 (SPX)
PREFIRE involves two CubeSats, launched from New Zealand on May 25 and June 5, respectively. The first CubeSat began transmitting data on July 1, while the seco...
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