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Ancient ice ages shapes how seagrasses respond to environmental threats
Aug 03, 2022 (SPX)
About a half-million years ago, when the world was warmer, some eelgrass plants made the difficult journey from their homes in the Pacific to the Atlantic. Not ...
Mountain melt shutters classic Alpine routes
Jul 31, 2022 (AFP)
Usually at the height of summer, tourists flock to the Alps and seek out well-trodden paths up to some of Europe's most iconic peaks. But with warmer temperatur...
Thaw and redraw: melting glacier moves Italian-Swiss border
Jul 26, 2022 (AFP)
The borderline runs along a drainage divide -- the point at which meltwater will run down either side of the mountain towards one country or the other. But the ...
Human food waste 'threat' to polar bears: report
Jul 20, 2022 (AFP)
Scientists and conservationists warned Wednesday that it was just one of a growing number of incidents showing the threat food waste poses to the at-risk animal...
Air samples from Arctic region show how fast Earth is warming
Jul 17, 2022 (SPX)
Key players in climate change include the clouds that cover the Earth's surface and the microscopic, airborne aerosols called ice nucleating particles that seed...
Stronger overturning circulation in the Pacific during the last glacial period
Jul 14, 2022 (SPX)
These findings will help to refine climate models and improve our understanding of ocean circulation and carbon storage in the sea, an international team of res...
NASA Ice Scientists Take Flight from Greenland to Study Melting Arctic Ice
Jul 12, 2022 (SPX)
The ice researchers and instrument scientists will board NASA's Gulfstream V jet and fly out of Thule Air Base in northwestern Greenland to head even farther no...
Death toll climbs to 11 in Italy glacier collapse
Jul 09, 2022 (AFP)
A section of Italy's biggest Alpine glacier gave way last Sunday, sending ice and rock hurtling down the mountain, in a disaster blamed by officials on climate ...
'In the mouth of dragons': Melting glaciers threaten Pakistan's north
Jul 07, 2022 (AFP)
Rahi, a retired maths teacher, had been due to attend his nephew's wedding the day the flood rushed through the village of Hassanabad. "I expected women and chi...
Arctic temperatures are increasing four times faster than global warming
Jul 06, 2022 (SPX)
"Thirty years is considered the minimum to represent climate change," said Petr Chylek, a physicist and climate researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory and...
Italy blames climate change for glacier collapse, 7 dead
Jul 04, 2022 (AFP)
Eight people were injured and another 14 were reported missing, authorities said, cautioning that it was not clear how many climbers were caught when the glacie...
Dinosaurs took over amid ice, not warmth, says a new study of ancient mass extinction
Jul 01, 2022 (SPX)
We know that the world was generally hot and steamy during the Triassic Period, which preceded the extinction, and during the following Jurassic, which kicked o...
Thawing permafrost is shaping the global climate
Jun 30, 2022 (SPX)
How is climate change affecting the permanently frozen soils of the Arctic? What will the consequences be for the global climate, human beings, and ecosystems? ...
Russia and China eye NATO's 'Arctic Achilles heel'
Jun 29, 2022 (AFP)
No, this is not some time warp Soviet settlement lost in the Arctic wastes, but a corner of Norway where Moscow can -- theoretically at least -- mine, build, dr...
Observational and modelling data help to decipher the third pole of the world
Jun 28, 2022 (SPX)
Like the North and South Poles, the Tibetan Plateau is also extremely vulnerable to climate change. Glaciers on it have been retreating extensively in recent de...
The treaty drawn up between the sheets
Jun 23, 2022 (AFP)
Drawn up in almost comical circumstances in Paris in 1920, it gives the citizens of 46 countries the right to exploit the Arctic archipelago which is now offici...
Warming climate upends Arctic mining town
Jun 22, 2022 (AFP)
On the morning of December 19, 2015, the 54-year-old school monitor was napping at home in Longyearbyen, the main town in the Norwegian archipelago halfway betw...
Melting Arctic ice could transform international shipping routes
Jun 21, 2022 (SPX)
Another critical consequence of melting ice in the Arctic? The potential for shorter, more eco-friendly maritime trade routes that bypass the Russian-controlled...
Melting accelerates for thousands of Greenland's northern glaciers
Jun 21, 2022 (SPX)
The new study, published in the AGU journal Geophysical Research Letters, focused on "peripheral" glaciers, which are glaciers with areas smaller than 0.05 km2 ...
Subpopulation of Greenland polar bears found
Jun 21, 2022 (SPX)
Polar bears throughout the Arctic depend on sea ice as a platform for hunting seals. As human-caused climate change warms the planet and Arctic sea ice melts aw...
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