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Ice age data raises new concerns about future ice melt, rising sea levels
Apr 06, 2023 (UPI)
Researchers say the data, released Wednesday in the journal Nature, confirms a large ice sheet covering Eurasia -- between 15,000 and 19,000 years ago -- retrea...
Scientists in Arctic race to preserve 'ice memory'
Apr 03, 2023 (AFP)
Italian, French and Norwegian researchers are in Norway's Svalbard archipelago in what they called a race against time to preserve crucial ice records for analy...
What caused the record-low Antarctic sea ice in austral summer 2022
Apr 02, 2023 (SPX)
This latest record low occurred just five years after the preceding record low in summer 2017, which is surprising and has raised concern about climate change i...
Austria glaciers retreat 'more than ever': measurement
Mar 31, 2023 (AFP)
On average, 89 Austrian glaciers observed by the organisation have become 28.7 metres (94.2 feet) shorter, compared to 11 metres in 2021, it said in a statement...
Deep ocean currents around Antarctica headed for collapse, study finds
Mar 30, 2023 (SPX)
The results are detailed in a new study coordinated by Scientia Professor Matthew England, Deputy Director of the ARC Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science...
Third pole darkening affects local and remote climates
Mar 29, 2023 (SPX)
Against this backdrop, an international team of researchers, led by Prof. Shilong Piao from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research at the Chinese Academy of ...
The Greenland ice sheet is close to a melting point of no return
Mar 28, 2023 (SPX)
Based in part on carbon emissions, a new study using simulations identified two tipping points for the Greenland Ice Sheet: releasing 1000 gigatons of carbon in...
3D radar scan provides clues about threats to iconic Alaskan glacier
Mar 19, 2023 (SPX)
The findings, published by University of Arizona researchers in the Journal of Geophysical Research, underscore the fragility of a very large glacial system tha...
Entire populations of Antarctic seabirds fail to breed due to extreme snowstorms
Mar 14, 2023 (SPX)
In these regions, climate change caused snowfall and snow accumulation to be significantly higher than in previous years. Now, a study published on March 13 in ...
Decaying biomass in Arctic rivers fuels more carbon export than previously thought
Mar 14, 2023 (SPX)
A new study led by Florida State University researchers found that plants and small organisms in Arctic rivers could be responsible for more than half the parti...
Elegantly modeling earth's abrupt glacial transitions
Mar 13, 2023 (SPX)
Milutin Milankovitch hypothesized that the timing of these cycles was controlled by the orbital parameters of the Earth, including the shape of its path around ...
Antarctic sea ice cover at record low: EU monitor
Mar 08, 2023 (AFP)
On February 16, the ocean surface covered by ice around the frozen continent shrank to 2.09 million square kilometres (nearly 800,000 square miles), the lowest ...
Antarctic Peninsula glaciers on the run
Feb 28, 2023 (ESA)
The Antarctic Peninsula is the most northern and warmest region of Antarctica, and with a 1000-km long mountainous spine, it is home to a rich marine ecosystem....
Sea ice in Antarctic at record low: US data center
Feb 27, 2023 (AFP)
The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado Boulder said that Antarctica's sea ice fell to 1.79 million square kilometers (691,0...
Blame the warmth: Famed skating rink in Ottawa won't open this year
Feb 24, 2023 (AFP)
"Despite our best efforts, the weather got the best of us for the first time in our history," the Ottawa facility said on its Twitter account. "We share everyon...
Changes in the navigability of the Arctic Northeast Passage over the past four decades
Feb 17, 2023 (SPX)
In this respect, assessing the accessibility of this emerging Arctic shipping shortcut is urgently needed. Nevertheless, until now, there have been barely any a...
New results provide close-up view of melting underneath Thwaites Glacier
Feb 17, 2023 (SPX)
Two papers in the journal Nature this week (15 February 2023) provide a clearer picture of the changes taking place under the glacier, which is the size of Grea...
Antarctica sea ice melts to a record low
Feb 16, 2023 (AFP)
The National Snow and Ice Data Center in the United States said Antarctica's sea ice fell to 1.91 million square kilometres (737,000 square miles) this week, th...
New technique maps large-scale impacts of fire-induced permafrost thaw in Alaska
Feb 15, 2023 (SPX)
Surface vegetation plays a dominant role in protecting permafrost from summer warmth, so any alteration of vegetation structure, particularly following severe w...
Researchers build more detailed picture of the movement of Greenland Ice Sheet
Feb 13, 2023 (SPX)
The international team of researchers, led by the University of Cambridge, used computer modelling techniques based off earlier fibre-optic measurements from th...
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