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Antarctic marine viruses under scrutiny as researchers map unknowns of polar ecosystems
Oct 16, 2025 (SPX)
Researchers from Australia and China synthesized current findings to identify where further work is needed. They emphasize that while DNA viruses have been stud...
Patagonian ice sheet followed its own climatic rhythm
Oct 15, 2025 (SPX)
The study, led by Dr. Andres Castillo-Llarena of MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and the University of Bremen's Geosciences Department, reconst...
Scientists probe Tajik glacier for clues to climate resistance
Oct 13, 2025 (AFP)
To find out, a dozen scientists, accompanied exclusively by an AFP photographer, trekked high over one glacier in eastern Tajikistan to drill for ice cores -- a...
UK spearheads polar climate change research as US draws back
Oct 12, 2025 (AFP)
The RRS Sir David Attenborough, a state-of-the-art ship named after the renowned UK naturalist, will aid research on everything from "hunting underwater tsunami...
North American ice sheets caused majority of post-Ice Age sea-level rise
Oct 11, 2025 (SPX)
The study overturns decades of scientific consensus that had pointed to Antarctica as the main contributor. Researchers found that between 8,000 and 9,000 years...
Shackleton's sunken polar ship may have been weaker than thought
Oct 06, 2025 (UPI)
A weakness in the ship's rudder has long been called the fatal flaw in Endurance's design that caused the ship to be crushed by sea ice and sink to the bottom o...
Researchers wake up microbes trapped in permafrost for thousands of years
Oct 06, 2025 (SPX)
The study is a showcase for the planet's permafrost. That's the name for a frozen mix of soil, ice and rocks that underlies nearly a quarter of the land in the ...
Carbon feedback loops could plunge Earth into deep freeze
Oct 01, 2025 (SPX)
Yet Earth's history shows extreme phases, when ice sheets covered the entire globe, that cannot be explained by silicate weathering alone. Researchers argue tha...
Swiss glaciers shrank by a quarter in past decade: study
Oct 01, 2025 (AFP)
In 2025, glacial melting in the Alpine nation was once again "enormous", the Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland (GLAMOS) network said, adding that it was close t...
Antarctic sea ice hits its third-lowest winter peak on record
Sep 30, 2025 (AFP)
Each year during the Southern Hemisphere's winter, the ocean around Antarctica freezes hundreds of miles beyond the continent, with the maximum reach usually ob...
85 hidden lakes discovered beneath Antarctic ice sheet
Sep 25, 2025 (SPX)
These lakes, buried under kilometres of ice, fill and drain in long cycles, altering ice sheet dynamics and potentially influencing global sea level rise. Resea...
Nordic ministers attend Greenland war games without US
Sep 15, 2025 (AFP)
Organised by Denmark, the "Arctic Light 2025" exercise brings together more than 550 troops from NATO allies Denmark, France, Germany, Norway and Sweden. "The c...
Sweden's Sami fear for future amid rare earth mining plans
Sep 08, 2025 (AFP)
Rare earth elements are essential for the green transition, including electric vehicle battery production, and the large discovery made in Sweden in early 2023,...
Algal blooms shaped global carbon cycle during Antarctic Cold Reversal
Sep 03, 2025 (SPX)
The team focused on the Antarctic Cold Reversal, a temporary cooling event that occurred despite broader warming in the southern hemisphere. Sediment cores from...
Glaciers in Tajikistan show signs of irreversible decline as snowfall drops
Sep 03, 2025 (SPX)
High-mountain Asia, often called the Third Pole, contains the planet's largest water reserves outside the Arctic and Antarctic. In the Pamir Mountains, glaciers...
Once king of the seas, a giant iceberg is finally breaking up
Sep 02, 2025 (AFP)
Earlier this year, the "megaberg" known as A23a weighed a little under a trillion tonnes and was more than twice the size of Greater London, a behemoth unrivall...
Denmark summons US diplomat over Greenland 'interference'
Aug 27, 2025 (AFP)
Denmark summoned the US charge d'affaires on Wednesday after reports of attempted interference in Greenland, a Danish autonomous territory that US President Don...
Surging tourism is polluting Antarctica, scientists warn
Aug 21, 2025 (AFP)
Soaring numbers of tourists and expanding research projects are increasingly polluting Antarctica, scientists warned Wednesday, a fresh blow for one of Earth's ...
Antarctic climate shifts threaten 'catastrophic' impacts globally
Aug 20, 2025 (AFP)
Abrupt and potentially irreversible changes in Antarctica driven by climate change could lift global oceans by metres and lead to "catastrophic consequences for...
Antarctic phytoplankton trends reveal sea ice retreat impact; Ecosystem engineering in the oceans
Aug 15, 2025 (SPX)
Published in Nature Climate Change, the research analysed ESA's Climate Change Initiative records of sea surface temperature, ocean colour and sea ice extent, c...
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