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Canadian polar bears disappearing fast: study
Dec 23, 2022 (AFP)
The number of female bears and cubs in particular has seen a dramatic decline. Researchers have flown over the region -- which includes the town of Churchill, a...
Lakes on roof of world freeze later and melt earlier under changing climate
Dec 13, 2022 (SPX)
The findings are based on the lake ice phenology dataset reconstructed from remote sensing and modelling for 132 lakes over the Tibetan Plateau. The dataset is ...
Chinese scientists reconstruct Qinghai-Tibet Plateau lake ice phenology
Dec 08, 2022 (SPX)
Lake ice phenology is a perceptible indicator reflecting changes in lake thermodynamics in response to global warming. Due to the limitations of conventional gr...
Strongest Arctic cyclone on record led to surprising loss of sea ice
Dec 02, 2022 (SPX)
The strongest Arctic cyclone ever observed poleward of 70 degrees north latitude struck in January 2022 northeast of Greenland. A new analysis led by the Univer...
Glacier calving and a whole lot of mixing
Dec 02, 2022 (ESA)
A team aboard the British Antarctic Survey's RRS James Clark Ross research ship was taking ocean measurements off the Antarctic Peninsula in January 2020 when t...
The incredible power of the ice that sculpted Europe's landscape
Dec 02, 2022 (SPX)
Using multiple strands of geophysical evidence to train a new model of the Eurasian Ice Sheet, Dr Patton and co-authors reveal the extreme and complex nature of...
Phytoplankton may be abundant under Antarctic sea ice
Nov 29, 2022 (SPX)
Phytoplankton are to the ocean what grasses are to land: these floating, plant-like organisms soak up sunshine, sponge up mineral nutrients, and create their ow...
Tibetan bottom ice might be younger than previously believed by two orders of magnitude
Nov 23, 2022 (SPX)
In fact, this is not the first try for retrieving ice cores from the Guliya ice cap. In 1992, a Guliya ice core to bedrock (308.6 m in length) was recovered at ...
Russia unveils new icebreaker in push for energy markets
Nov 22, 2022 (AFP)
Addressing a Saint Petersburg ceremony for the launch of the Yakutia icebreaker by video link, Putin said such vessels were of "strategic" importance for Russia...
Vast phytoplankton blooms may be lurking beneath Antarctic ice
Nov 17, 2022 (SPX)
The less light available, the less the phytoplankton can photosynthesize and therefore the less phytoplankton there will be, heavily restricting life beneath th...
Desert dust collected from glacier ice helps document climate change
Nov 15, 2022 (SPX)
Their findings suggest that the dust composition in samples collected from different areas and depths of the same glacier can vary greatly, a discovery that hin...
Ice loss from Northeastern Greenland significantly underestimated
Nov 10, 2022 (SPX)
By 2100, the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream will contribute six times as much to the rising sea level as previous models suggested, adding between 13,5 to 15,5 ...
NASA fieldwork studies signs of climate change in Arctic boreal regions
Nov 03, 2022 (SPX)
But on closer inspection, some hints of human-induced change appear to the eye. Sunken pockets of land. Abnormally tilted trees. Ponds where there used to be dr...
Yellowstone, Kilimanjaro glaciers among those set to vanish by 2050: UNESCO
Nov 03, 2022 (AFP)
The warning followed a study of 18,600 glaciers at 50 World Heritage sites -- covering around 66,000 square kilometres (25,000 square miles) -- which found glac...
Deeper understanding of the icy depths
Oct 21, 2022 (SPX)
The results, published in the journal Science Advances, come from a team at the Hokkaido University's Institute of Low Temperature Science, its Arctic Research ...
Receding ice leaves Canada's polar bears at rising risk
Oct 20, 2022 (AFP)
It's mid-summer on the shores of Hudson Bay and life for the enormous male has been moving in slow motion, far from the prey that keeps him alive: seals. This i...
Seasonal changes in Antarctic ice sheet flow dynamics detected for the first time
Oct 17, 2022 (ESA)
Although it is not unusual for ice flow in the Arctic regions to speed up during summer, scientists had previously assumed that ice in Antarctica wasn't subject...
Staying on top of the roof of the world
Oct 17, 2022 (SPX)
The region's extreme environment kept researchers from probing its wealth of knowledge until the 1970s, when the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) made the firs...
At the gateway to the Arctic, a world in turmoil
Oct 10, 2022 (AFP)
"For all the devastation that we're doing to her, she's not going to sit still, our planet Mother Earth will punish us," Daley says. Daley's hometown of Churchi...
US releases new Arctic strategy as climate threat grows
Oct 07, 2022 (AFP)
Global warming is melting Arctic ice, opening previously closed areas to navigation and creating new opportunities for countries such as the United States, Russ...
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