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Scientists Advocate Major Study on Geoengineering for Glaciers
Jul 15, 2024 (SPX)
This white paper marks the first public effort by glaciologists to evaluate potential technological interventions that might address catastrophic sea-level rise...
US, Finland, Canada join forces on icebreaker ships
Jul 11, 2024 (AFP)
Global warming and the consequent melting ice sheets has opened new Arctic areas to competition over maritime routes and resources involving Western countries a...
Tourists seek out Nordic holidays to keep cool
Jul 03, 2024 (AFP)
Countries like Norway and Sweden in northern Europe are now promoting "coolcations" to attract visitors to their temperate climates. Why leave the Canaries in s...
Dubai rowers to brave Arctic to highlight plastics pollution
Jul 03, 2024 (AFP)
Their quest will take the team from one extreme to the next. Home base is the United Arab Emirates, notorious for its sweltering heat, especially in summer. And...
Norway blocks unique real estate sale in Arctic Svalbard
Jul 01, 2024 (AFP)
The remote Sore Fagerfjord property in southwestern Svalbard -- 60 square kilometres (23 square miles) of mountains, plains and a glacier -- was on sale for 300...
White House moves to protect Alaskan land
Jun 28, 2024 (AFP)
The decision will conserve 28 million acres (11 million hectares) in western Alaska from oil, gas and mining projects, protections the Trump administration had ...
As ice melts, Everest's 'death zone' gives up its ghosts
Jun 27, 2024 (AFP)
Among those scaling the soaring Himalayan mountain this year was a team not aiming for the 8,849-metre (29,032-foot) peak, but risking their own lives to bring ...
Antarctic faces melting 'tipping point' as oceans warm: study
Jun 25, 2024 (AFP)
While this type of melting has been previously studied, models used by the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to project the impac...
Will Climate Change Turn the Arctic Green?
Jun 21, 2024 (SPX)
ESA's CryoSat mission, with 14 years in space, provides one of the longest unbroken records of polar ice thickness. Recent research published in Geophysical Res...
On thin ice: Greenland's last Inuit polar bear hunters
Jun 17, 2024 (AFP)
When the right moment came, Hammeken tapped his feet together. The seal lifted its head to look where the noise was coming from and the hunter fired. He butcher...
Polar bears could vanish from Canada's Hudson Bay if temperatures rise 2C
Jun 13, 2024 (AFP)
Climate change has sharply increased the number of days where Arctic sea ice is too thin for polar bears to hunt seals. That forces them to spend longer stretch...
NASA Launches Second CubeSat to Study Earth's Polar Regions
Jun 06, 2024 (SPX)
"By helping to clarify the role that Earth's polar regions play in regulating our planet's energy budget, the PREFIRE mission will ultimately help improve clima...
Permafrost Thaw: Local Effects Demand Global Action
Jun 06, 2024 (SPX)
Permafrost covers about a quarter of the Northern Hemisphere's landmass and holds significant organic carbon as dead plant matter. When permafrost thaws, microo...
Arctic warming linked to atmospheric blocking, study reveals
Jun 05, 2024 (SPX)
It is well known that the Arctic is warming faster than the global average, a phenomenon known as Arctic Amplification. But, since 1991, Svalbard has experience...
Norway vows to strengthen control over Arctic Svalbard
May 31, 2024 (AFP)
Svalbard, whose main island is twice the size of Belgium, straddles the European continent and the polar region. Worsening tensions between Russia and the West ...
Successful satellite launch will let NASA measure polar heat loss
May 25, 2024 (UPI)
The small cube satellite, or CubeSat, lifted off at 3:41 a.m. in New Zealand aboard an Electron rocket manufactured by Rocket Lab. The launch took place at the ...
For sale: unique piece of land in strategic Arctic archipelago
May 22, 2024 (AFP)
The archipelago is located halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole, in an Arctic region that has become a geopolitical and economic hotspot as the ic...
Climate change key driver of record-low Antarctic sea ice: study
May 20, 2024 (AFP)
Scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) found that human-caused global warming resulted in a once-in-2,000-year low in ocean surface around the conti...
Daily ice loss in Greenland tracked by new GPS method
May 16, 2024 (SPX)
"This is the first time we can measure the entire mass loss of the ice sheet day by day. For example, satellite gravity measurements show mass loss every month....
Ritacuba Blanco: death of a Colombian glacier
May 08, 2024 (AFP)
But with the South American country hit by the warming effects of the El Nino weather phenomenon since late last year, large cracks have suddenly appeared in th...
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