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Glacier shrinkage is causing a green transition
Mar 04, 2024 (SPX)
Glacier-fed streams are murky, raging torrents in the summer. Large quantities of glacial meltwater churn up rocks and sediment, allowing very little light to r...
'Very worried': Scientists fret as Antarctic sea ice dwindles
Mar 02, 2024 (AFP)
But looking out over the southernmost continent, scientist Miguel Angel de Pablo laments that humanity seems to be oblivious to the warnings. "We (scientists) a...
Indigenous Colombians fret as sacred mountain glaciers melt
Feb 28, 2024 (AFP)
As a "consequence of man's actions, it is slowly warming, more every year," one of the men says in the Iku language, according to a translator, at a meeting of ...
Polar bears struggling to adapt to longer ice-free Arctic periods
Feb 13, 2024 (AFP)
Polar bears use the ice that stretches across the ocean surface in the Arctic during colder months to help them access their main source of prey -- fatty ringed...
What turned Earth into a giant snowball 700m years ago
Feb 12, 2024 (SPX)
The study, published in Geology, helps our understanding of the functioning of the Earth's built-in thermostat that prevents the Earth from getting stuck in ove...
Ice cores provide first documentation of rapid Antarctic ice loss in the past
Feb 12, 2024 (SPX)
This is the first evidence anywhere in Antarctica for such a fast loss of ice. Scientists are worried that today's rising temperatures might destabilize parts o...
Currently stable parts of East Antarctica may be closer to melting than anyone realized
Feb 12, 2024 (SPX)
In a paper published Jan. 19 in Geophysical Research Letters, researchers at Stanford have shown that the Wilkes Subglacial Basin in East Antarctica, which hold...
Satellite-Derived Data Powers ALEX, Offering Insight into Arctic Permafrost Thaw
Feb 12, 2024 (SPX)
Permafrost, a layer of permanently frozen ground that spans approximately 15% of the Northern Hemisphere's land surface, plays a crucial role in the global clim...
Yale joins the 'Snowball' fight over global deep freeze periods
Feb 12, 2024 (SPX)
According to a new study, these so-called "Snowball" Earth periods, in which the planet's surface was covered in ice for thousands or even millions of years, co...
Melting ice roads cut off Indigenous communities in northern Canada
Feb 09, 2024 (AFP)
Communities in Ontario and neighboring Manitoba provinces declared a state of emergency as the warm spell made the network of ice roads -- which across Canada s...
In Antarctica, scientists study extent of microplastics
Feb 07, 2024 (AFP)
Like a sieve, the net lets water pass through as it retains the small solid particles that float in the Gerlache Strait, a natural corridor approximately 160 ki...
Canada ice fishing season gets off to late start due to warm weather
Feb 06, 2024 (AFP)
Tired of waiting for cold-enough winter weather, ice fishing enthusiasts in Quebec province can finally cast their lines. The season here usually starts on Dece...
Permafrost alone holds back Arctic rivers - and a lot of carbon
Feb 02, 2024 (SPX)
But permafrost also is an increasingly fragile reservoir of vast amounts of carbon. As climate change weakens Artic permafrost, the researchers calculate that e...
Greenland absorbs more methane than it emits: study
Jan 31, 2024 (AFP)
"On average and since 2000, dry landscapes of the ice-free part of Greenland have consumed more than 65,000 tons of methane annually from the atmosphere, while ...
Scientists warn missing Russian data causing Arctic climate blind spots
Jan 22, 2024 (AFP)
The Arctic is warming between two and four times faster than the rest of the planet and holds glaciers, forests and carbon-rich frozen soils at risk of irrevers...
World's biggest iceberg 'battered' by waves as it heads north
Jan 20, 2024 (AFP)
"Then the clouds lifted and we could see this expansive -- almost abstract -- white line that extended each way across the horizon," he told AFP. As the ship go...
Colombian mission to Antarctica analyzes climate change footprints
Jan 20, 2024 (AFP)
The Colombian Navy's ARC Simon Bolivar is taking aquatic samples in Antarctica and advancing scientific research on climate change amid huge blocks of ice and f...
Canada hands control of rich Arctic lands to Inuit territory
Jan 18, 2024 (AFP)
Nunavut, at more than two million square kilometers (800,000 square miles), is almost three times the size of the US state of Texas and is believed to hold some...
NASA Study: More Greenland Ice Lost Than Previously Estimated
Jan 18, 2024 (JPL)
Published in Nature on Jan. 17, the analysis offers a comprehensive look at retreat around the edges of the entire ice sheet from 1985 to 2022, drawing from nea...
Greenland has lost more ice than previously thought: study
Jan 17, 2024 (AFP)
Previous studies have found that about 5,000 gigatons of ice has been lost from the surface of the Greenland ice sheet in the past two decades, a major contribu...
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