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Russia stages fresh military drills in the Arctic

Mar 30, 2021 (AFP)

Tensions between the West and Russia have led both sides to beef up their militaries in the remote High North, an area believed to be rich in natural resources ...

Antarctica's Conger ice shelf collapses in most significant loss since early 2000s

Mar 25, 2021 (UPI)

While the ice shelf is relatively small -- it is roughly the size of Rome -- Dr. Catherine Colello Walker said the event, which came in a week with unusually hi...

Russia trolls Suez Canal with northern 'alternative'

Mar 25, 2021 (AFP)

President Vladimir Putin has long promoted the passage along the country's Siberian coast as a rival to the Suez Canal, and Russia seized on the Egyptian route'...

Icy ocean worlds seismometer passes further testing in Greenland

Mar 18, 2021 (SPX)

SIIOS could be a part of proposed NASA spacecraft missions to the surface of Europa or Enceladus. These moons of Jupiter and Saturn are encrusted by an icy shel...

Biofluorescent fish documented in the Arctic for the first time

Mar 18, 2021 (UPI)

Biologists detailed the breakthrough discovery in a new paper, published Thursday in the journal American Museum Novitates. Most biofluorescent fish are found i...

Ancient leaves preserved under a mile of Greenland's ice

Mar 17, 2021 (SPX)

The ice told a story of Earth's climate history. The frozen soil was examined, set aside and then forgotten. Half a century later, scientists rediscovered that ...

Army releases Arctic strategy focused on Russia, climate change

Mar 16, 2021 (UPI)

The branch's arctic strategy, called "Regaining Arctic Dominance," includes plans to establish headquarters with combat brigades specially trained and equipped ...

Melting glaciers may speed emissions, fuel climate feedback loop

Mar 15, 2021 (UPI)

Now, an international team of scientists led by researchers at the University of Leeds has found another. According to their analysis, the loss of alpine glacie...

Glaciers and enigmatic stone stripes in the Ethiopian highlands

Mar 15, 2021 (SPX)

The extent to which this general statement also applies to the tropical high mountains of Eastern Africa and elsewhere is, however, doubted on the basis of pala...

Russia plans to use prisoners for Arctic cleanup

Mar 12, 2021 (AFP)

The head of Russia's Federal Prison Service (FSIN), Alexander Kalashnikov, said that an agreement to that effect had been reached with the administration of the...

Antarctica's magnetic link to ancient neighbours

Mar 10, 2021 (ESA)

Not only is Antarctic sub-ice geology important to understand global supercontinent cycles over billions of years that have shaped Earth's evolution, it is also...

Russia to cooperate with US on Arctic, forests: report

Mar 09, 2021 (AFP)

Russia's presidential climate envoy held talks with US counterpart John Kerry last week after the United States rejoined the Paris climate accords and President...

Explorers find shipwreck of Endurance more than 100 years after it sank near Antarctica

Mar 09, 2021 (UPI)

The Norwegian-built Endurance was headed for Antarctica in 1915 during the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition and was led by British explorer Ernest Shackleton...

New study finds atmospheric rivers increase snow mass in West Antarctica

Mar 08, 2021 (SPX)

These findings from scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego and colleagues will help improve overall underst...

NASA's ICESat-2 satellite reveals shape, depth of Antarctic ice shelf fractures

Mar 08, 2021 (SPX)

Ice shelves make up nearly 75% of Antarctica's coastline and buttress - or hold back - the larger glaciers on land, said Shujie Wang, assistant professor of geo...

Danish navy transports Covid vaccines to remote Greenland areas

Mar 06, 2021 (AFP)

A naval patrol ship set out in mid-February to visit two settlements, fitted with a specialised refrigerator to store doses of the vaccine and transporting civi...

Seals help scientists survey Antarctica's disappearing glaciers

Mar 05, 2021 (UPI)

The breakthrough, detailed Friday in the journal Communications: Earth and Environment, was made possible by a team of deep-diving seals with instruments strapp...

Scientists use forest color to gauge permafrost depth

Mar 03, 2021 (SPX)

But in boreal regions, which harbor a significant portion of the world's permafrost, obscuring vegetation can stymy even the most advanced remote sensing techno...

In Russian Arctic, miner Nornickel exhibits green goal

Mar 01, 2021 (AFP)

Owned by the mining giant Norilsk Nickel, a leading operator in the northwestern resource-rich region of Murmansk, the Nikel metallurgical plant was a major sou...

Giant iceberg breaks off near UK Antarctic base

Feb 26, 2021 (AFP)

The research body said the iceberg measuring 1,270 square kilometres (490 square miles) had broken off from the 150-metre-thick Brunt Ice Shelf in a process cal...