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Past global photosynthesis reacted quickly to more carbon in the air
Mar 11, 2022 (SPX)
"Global biosphere production through photosynthesis is the strongest absorbing flux of atmospheric carbon dioxide. It is therefore essential to understand its n...
Thawing permafrost could leach microbes, chemicals into environment
Mar 10, 2022 (JPL)
A paper published earlier this year in the journal Nature Reviews Earth and Environment looked at the current state of permafrost research. Along with highlight...
Filling the GOCE data gap unearths South Pole's geological past
Mar 10, 2022 (ESA)
Satellites orbiting Earth from pole to pole don't actually fly directly above the North and South Poles. This leaves two small circular gaps in the global data....
Chile creates national park to save glaciers
Mar 05, 2022 (AFP)
The new National Glacier Park will cover 75,000 hectares of Andes mountain land about 60 kilometers (40 miles) from the capital Santiago, President Sebastian Pi...
Satellite-derived salinity improves Arctic marine circulation prediction
Feb 28, 2022 (SPX)
The scientific team has incorporated sea salinity data obtained from measurements by the European Space Agency (ESA) SMOS satellite into the TOPAZ Arctic predic...
New state-of-the-art technology collects a unique time series from methane seeps in the Arctic
Feb 28, 2022 (SPX)
A new study published in Ocean Science conducted by CAGE PhD candidate Knut Ola Dolven and co-authors presents time-series data from two methane seep sites offs...
NASA is Helping Fly Drones in the Arctic
Feb 25, 2022 (SPX)
Now, a team led by NASA scientists is showing how a fixed-winged drone named Vanilla could fly for several days over the Arctic ocean carrying an instrument tha...
Lessons on climate grief from the people of the sea ice
Feb 25, 2022 (AFP)
These "people of the sea ice" have endured years of dramatic warming that is ravaging their beloved landscape at the edge of the Arctic, forcing them to reimagi...
Melting glaciers, fast-disappering gauge of climate change
Feb 23, 2022 (AFP)
In the lake San Rafael, about 100 icebergs float today, pieces broken off from the glacier that 150 years ago stretched out over two-thirds of the body of water...
Swedish skaters return to frozen lake in style
Feb 21, 2022 (AFP)
It is a thrilling sight as they hurtle around the 50-kilometre course at speeds of 30 kilometres per hour (20 miles per hour) and it is a welcome one as the "Si...
New research solves longstanding Antarctic climate change mystery
Feb 17, 2022 (SPX)
The research, published recently in the journal Geology, and funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Environment Research Council, lends addi...
Blue Blob near Iceland could slow glacial melting
Feb 17, 2022 (SPX)
The origin and cause of the Blue Blob, which is located south of Iceland and Greenland, is still being investigated. The cold patch was most prominent during th...
Deep insights into the Arctic of tomorrow
Feb 08, 2022 (SPX)
They have now published three overview articles on the MOSAiC atmosphere, snow and sea ice, and ocean programs in the journal Elementa, highlighting the importa...
New atlas finds globe's glaciers have less ice than previously thought
Feb 08, 2022 (SPX)
The worldwide survey, published in Nature Geoscience, measures the velocity and depth of more than 250,000 mountain glaciers. The research revises earlier estim...
Mountain glaciers hold less ice than thought, and that's bad news
Feb 07, 2022 (AFP)
Glaciers in the Andes Mountains of South America, for example, were found to store 23 percent less fresh water compared to earlier estimates, they wrote in the ...
Everest's highest glacier rapidly losing ice: study
Feb 05, 2022 (AFP)
The South Col formation may already have lost around 55 metres (180 feet) of thickness in the last 25 years, according to research led by the University of Main...
Ocean eddies could explain Antarctic sea-ice paradox
Feb 03, 2022 (SPX)
As experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute have now shown, the ocean may weaken warming around Antarctica and delay sea-ice retreat. Given that many models ar...
Robotic exploration of uncharted, underwater glacial walls set for 2023
Feb 02, 2022 (SPX)
That could change in 2023 with a bold new mission led by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin that will explore three of Greenland's glaciers with a...
Permafrost thaw: it's complicated
Feb 02, 2022 (ESA)
Permafrost is frozen soil, rock or sediment - sometimes hundreds of metres thick. To be classified as permafrost, the ground has to have been frozen for at leas...
Glaciers are melting faster and with more consequences than expected
Feb 02, 2022 (SPX)
The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) has identified and analysed the changes in West Antarctica, in cooperation with int...
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