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Antarctic ice hits record low for January: climate monitor
Feb 08, 2023 (AFP)
Last month was also the third warmest January on record in Europe, with temperatures on New Year's Day reaching all-time highs on some parts of the continent, a...
Glacial flooding threatens millions globally
Feb 08, 2023 (SPX)
As the climate gets warmer, glaciers retreat and meltwater collects at the front of the glacier, forming a lake. These lakes can suddenly burst and create a fas...
More frequent atmospheric rivers hinder seasonal recovery of Arctic sea ice
Feb 07, 2023 (SPX)
"Arctic sea ice decline is among the most obvious evidence of global warming from the past several decades," said Pengfei Zhang, assistant research professor of...
Study details timing of past glacier advances in Northern Antarctic Peninsula
Feb 03, 2023 (SPX)
A University of Wyoming researcher led a study that determined the black moss kill dates coincide with evidence of glacier advances from other studies that foun...
Giant iceberg breaks away from Antarctic ice shelf
Jan 27, 2023 (ESA)
This crack was first revealed to be extending in early 2012 after having been dormant for some decades. After several years of desperately clinging on, image da...
Vast iceberg breaks off near UK Antarctic base
Jan 23, 2023 (AFP)
The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) said the formation of the new iceberg -- in a natural process called "calving" -- was not due to climate change, which is acc...
Satellite mapping finds new colony of Emperor penguins
Jan 20, 2023 (AFP)
The find, announced by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) to mark Penguin Awareness Day, brings the total number of known emperor penguin breeding sites around ...
Greenland at its warmest in 1,000 years: study
Jan 20, 2023 (AFP)
"This confirms the bad news that we know already unfortunately ... (It is) clear that we need to get this warming under control in order to stop the melting of ...
Polar bear kills woman and baby in remote Alaskan village
Jan 18, 2023 (AFP)
Police said the bear roamed into the tiny community of Wales on the far western coast of America's wildest state, where it began chasing people. It set upon 24-...
Runaway West Antarctic ice retreat can be slowed by climate-driven ocean temps
Jan 17, 2023 (SPX)
The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, the University of Edinburgh and the University of Washington, found that the pace and extent of ice destabili...
Runaway W. Antarctic ice sheet collapse not 'inevitable': study
Jan 16, 2023 (AFP)
As global temperatures rise, there is mounting concern that warming could trigger so-called tipping points that set off irreversible melting of the world's mass...
That sinking feeling: Are ice roads holding up under January's unseasonable warmth?
Jan 13, 2023 (SPX)
The research warns that ice roads, essential for moving people, food, medicine and fuel in remote northern communities, as well as heavy machinery used by indus...
Vegetation has a substantial impact on the movement of energy in the Arctic
Jan 12, 2023 (SPX)
A recent study from researchers across 63 institutions, including the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and the DOE Office of Scienc...
Sentinel-1 and AI uncover glacier crevasses
Jan 10, 2023 (ESA)
A paper published in Nature Geoscience describes how ESA's development of the Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellites and routine synthetic aperture radar imaging of c...
Half of world's glaciers will vanish by year 2100 due to global warming
Jan 06, 2023 (UPI)
The study, published Thursday in the journal Science, projects that nearly 50% of the Earth's natural ice will dissolve by the year 2100, which is much quicker ...
Half of world's glaciers expected to vanish by 2100: study
Jan 05, 2023 (AFP)
The findings, published in the journal Science on Thursday, provide the most comprehensive look so far at the future of the world's 215,000 glaciers. The author...
Black carbon aerosols accelerate loss of glacial mass over the Tibetan plateau
Jan 01, 2023 (SPX)
The South Asia region adjacent to the Tibetan Plateau has among the highest levels of black carbon emission in the world. Many studies have emphasized black car...
They survived the hunters: now king penguins face climate change
Dec 29, 2022 (AFP)
The birds spend most of their life at sea, but come breeding time in December half the world's population flock to the islands in the southern Indian Ocean's Cr...
Study identifies new cause of melting Antarctic ice shelves
Dec 27, 2022 (SPX)
The study, led by the University of East Anglia in the UK, also identified that a small ocean gyre - a system of circulating ocean currents - next to the Thwait...
Bering Land Bridge formed surprisingly late during last ice age, study finds
Dec 27, 2022 (SPX)
The new findings, published the week of December 26 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, indicate that the growth of the ice sheets-and the resul...
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