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Greenland's Prudhoe Dome ice cap was completely gone only 7,000 years ago, first GreenDrill study finds
Jan 06, 2026 (SPX)
Published (Jan. 5) in Nature Geoscience, the findings suggest that this high point on the northwest section of the ice sheet is highly sensitive to the relative...
Three hurt in polar bear attack in remote Siberian villag
Jan 05, 2026 (AFP)
Local police "received a report of a polar bear injuring people 40 kilometres (25 miles) from the village of Nosok" at a fishing spot, the regional interior min...
Deep ocean quakes linked to Antarctic phytoplankton surges
Dec 18, 2025 (SPX)
Phytoplankton are microscopic, plant-like organisms that drift near the ocean surface, underpin marine food webs, store carbon taken from the atmosphere, and re...
Ocean warming drove past Greenland ice stream retreat
Dec 18, 2025 (SPX)
The study, led by scientists at Newcastle University and Durham University, shows that ocean processes, not only atmospheric changes, played a decisive role in ...
Arctic sees unprecedented heat as climate impacts cascade
Dec 16, 2025 (AFP)
Between October 2024 and September 2025, temperatures were 1.60 degrees Celsius above the 1991-2020 mean, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration sa...
Thousands of glaciers to melt each year by mid-century: study
Dec 15, 2025 (AFP)
Government action on climate change could determine whether the world loses 2,000 or 4,000 glaciers annually by the middle of the century, according to the rese...
Greenland mantle heat map sharpens outlook for rising seas
Dec 09, 2025 (SPX)
Working with colleagues from the University of Twente in the Netherlands and the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, the team combined multiple satellit...
Where Antarctic Ice Melt Will Raise Seas the Most
Nov 28, 2025 (SPX)
But melting ice sheets don't affect sea level and temperatures in the same way everywhere. In a new study, our team of scientists investigated how ice melting i...
Sentinel 1D radar satellite returns first images from Antarctic to Europe
Nov 27, 2025 (SPX)
Sentinel-1D, the latest satellite in the Copernicus Sentinel-1 radar constellation, was launched on 4 November on an Ariane 6 rocket from Europe's Spaceport in ...
Where Antarctica's ice melt will have the biggest impact on sea levels
Nov 27, 2025 (SPX)
But melting ice sheets don't affect sea level and temperatures in the same way everywhere. In a new study, our team of scientists investigated how ice melting i...
Antarctica's Retreating Ice Reveals Nutrient-Rich Peaks Boosting Ocean Carbon Uptake
Nov 25, 2025 (SPX)
The international research team analyzed sediments from East Antarctica's Sor Rondane Mountains. They found that rocks newly exposed above the ice surface conta...
Ancient RNA recovery reveals gene activity in Ice Age mammoths
Nov 15, 2025 (SPX)
"With RNA, we can obtain direct evidence of which genes are 'turned on', offering a glimpse into the final moments of life of a mammoth that walked the Earth du...
Big leap in quest to get to bottom of climate ice mystery
Nov 07, 2025 (AFP)
"This is the best feeling ever," declared the Russian-born glaciologist in the thin mountain air of Kon Chukurbashi. Kutuzov is one of a team of 15 scientists w...
Cosmic dust reveals dynamic shifts in central Arctic sea-ice coverage over the last 30,000 years
Nov 07, 2025 (SPX)
Researchers have known for some time that fine-grained dust from space blankets the surface of Earth, falling from the cosmos at a constant rate and settling in...
URI climate scientist contributes to research illustrating future impacts of Antarctic ice sheet melting
Nov 07, 2025 (SPX)
Despite the importance of understanding global impacts of ice sheet mass loss, imperfect understanding of ice sheet-climate interactions poses challenges for pr...
Explorers seek ancient Antarctica ice in climate change study
Nov 01, 2025 (AFP)
The goal of the French duo is to better understand the impact on world sea levels of any melting of the "white planet" if global temperatures rise, Matthieu Tor...
Antarctic moisture research will model ice sheet formation in ancient warm periods
Oct 31, 2025 (SPX)
The study targets the Miocene Climatic Optimum, which occurred approximately 17 to 14.7 million years ago, when atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations surpas...
Polar bears sustain arctic scavengers with millions of kilograms of food each year
Oct 29, 2025 (SPX)
Lead author Holly Gamblin of the University of Manitoba stated, "Our findings quantify for the first time, the sheer scale of polar bears as a food provider to ...
Six million year old Antarctic ice reveals deep history of Earth's climate
Oct 29, 2025 (SPX)
The work, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, includes researchers from the National Science Foundation-funded Center for Oldest I...
Large fluctuations in sea level occurred throughout the last ice age
Oct 17, 2025 (SPX)
The findings represent a significant change in researchers' understanding of how the Pleistocene - the geological period from about 2.6 million to 11,700 years ...
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