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UN chief to observe 'impact of climate crisis' in Antarctica
Nov 22, 2023 (AFP)
The two men will arrive in Antarctica on Thursday, and will visit three Chilean scientific bases, the Collins glacier and Kopaitic Island, before returning to C...
Frozen library of ancient ice tells tales of climate's past
Nov 22, 2023 (AFP)
The Ice Core Archive, housing 25 kilometres (15 miles) of ice collected primarily from Greenland, is helping scientists understand changes in the climate. "What...
Faster Arctic warming hastens 2C rise by eight years
Nov 21, 2023 (SPX)
To do this, the research team created alternative climate change projections in which rapid Arctic warming was not occurring. They then compared temperatures in...
Melting ice falling snow: Sea ice declines enhance snowfall over West Antarctica
Nov 21, 2023 (SPX)
The researchers analyzed the impacts of decreased sea ice in the Amundsen Sea in West Antarctica and found the ice-free ocean surface leads to more moisture in ...
Arctic Weather Satellite in shape
Nov 21, 2023 (ESA)
As its name suggests, the new Arctic Weather Satellite mission is expected to improve weather forecasts in the Arctic - a region that currently lacks data for a...
1.5C limit 'only option' for saving Earth's ice and snow
Nov 16, 2023 (AFP)
The assessment of the global "cryosphere" -- parts of the Earth covered in ice and snow for at least some of the year -- urges upcoming climate talks to commit ...
In a pickle: Baltic herring threatened by warming sea
Nov 10, 2023 (AFP)
"When the trawl bag comes up, the seagulls give us a concert," he said. Sjogren, a fifth-generation herring fisherman, has been trawling from the waters near Ko...
For 20,000 years, polar bears have been retreating due to rising sea temperatures
Nov 10, 2023 (SPX)
Nevertheless, a new study highlights that this trend has deep historical roots, with polar bear numbers in Greenland diminishing over a period of 20,000 years. ...
France says to build vessel for polar research
Nov 10, 2023 (AFP)
Addressing a conference on the polar regions and glaciers, he urged world powers to act in the face of the climate emergency despite raging geopolitical tension...
Greenland's glacier retreat rate has doubled over past two decades
Nov 10, 2023 (SPX)
Although glaciers in Greenland have experienced retreat throughout the last century, the rate of their retreat has rapidly accelerated over the last two decades...
Greenland's ice shelves have lost more than a third of their volume
Nov 08, 2023 (SPX)
Located in North Greenland, these ice shelves play an essential role in regulating the amount of ice discharged into the ocean by acting as huge frozen "dams". ...
How a climate model can illustrate and explain ice-age climate variability
Nov 03, 2023 (SPX)
Such climate variability is particularly important in climate research, especially for further improving our understanding of the effects of current anthropogen...
Underwater robot finds new circulation pattern in Antarctic ice shelf
Oct 31, 2023 (SPX)
The remotely operated Icefin robot's climb up and down a crevasse in the base of the Ross Ice Shelf produced the first 3D measurements of ocean conditions near ...
Meltwater flowing beneath Antarctic glaciers may be accelerating their retreat
Oct 30, 2023 (SPX)
The extra ice loss caused by this meltwater flowing out to sea from beneath Antarctic glaciers is not currently accounted for in the models generating major sea...
Light, freshwater sticks to Greenland's east coast
Oct 30, 2023 (SPX)
Greenland and the Atlantic Ocean circulation In the coming decades, climate change will lead to increasing amounts of freshwater from Greenland and the Arctic e...
Increased West Antarctic ice sheet melting 'unavoidable'
Oct 30, 2023 (SPX)
Taking into account climate variability like El Nino, they found no significant difference between mid-range emissions scenarios and the most ambitious targets ...
Despite record low ice, nations again fail to agree Antarctic reserves
Oct 27, 2023 (AFP)
The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources ended a fortnight of meetings in Australia once again unable to reach a deal on three n...
Arctic archipelago turns the page on its mining past
Oct 26, 2023 (AFP)
Coal brought fortune to Norway's Svalbard archipelago, but that bonanza became a curse for the remote group of islands, now the most harmful fossil energy for t...
Ancient landscape discovered beneath East Antarctic Ice Sheet?
Oct 25, 2023 (SPX)
They discovered a landscape that appears to have been formed by rivers at least 14 million years ago and possibly even before the initial growth of the East Ant...
Faster West Antarctic Ice Sheet melting unavoidable: study
Oct 23, 2023 (AFP)
Researchers warned that humans had "lost control" of the fate of thinning ice shelves -- frozen ridges floating on the fringes of the main ice sheet that play a...
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