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Sea ice kept oxygen from reaching deep ocean during last ice age
Feb 04, 2021 (SPX)
"The sea ice is effectively like a closed window for the ocean," said Andreas Schmittner, a climate scientist at Oregon State University and co-author on the pa...
Ancient fungi-like microfossil that bailed us out of an ice age discovered
Jan 29, 2021 (SPX)
A team of scientists from Virginia Tech, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guizhou Education University, and University of Cincinnati has discovered the remains ...
Japan's arctic ocean expedition advances climate modeling
Jan 27, 2021 (SPX)
In a new study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, a research team led by the National Institute of Polar Research in Tachikawa, Japa...
Warming seas are accelerating Greenland's glacier retreat
Jan 26, 2021 (JPL)
Greenland's melting glaciers, which plunge into Arctic waters via steep-sided inlets, or fjords, are among the main contributors to global sea level rise in res...
Microbes fuelled by wind-blown mineral dust melt the Greenland ice sheet
Jan 26, 2021 (SPX)
They discovered that phosphorus containing minerals may be driving ever-larger algal blooms on the Greenland Ice Sheet. As the algal blooms grow they darken the...
Study: Fast melting of Greenland Ice Sheet will affect sea-level rise
Jan 19, 2021 (UPI)
Because of the tremendous amount of water held in the ice there, experts say the Greenland Ice Sheet plays a critical role in the global climate system. Researc...
The new face of the Antarctic
Jan 07, 2021 (SPX)
Never before have researchers arrived at so many new findings on the biological and biochemical processes at work in the Antarctic than in the past ten years. N...
U.S. Navy strategic plan calls for more activity in Arctic region
Jan 06, 2021 (UPI)
The 28-page "Blue Arctic: a Strategic Plan for the Arctic," released on Tuesday, is a blueprint of strategic guidance stressing integration with allies. It note...
Researchers discover a new tool for reconstructing ancient sea ice to study climate change
Jan 05, 2021 (SPX)
In a study published in Nature Communications, the researchers show that an organic molecule often found in high-latitude ocean sediments, known as tetra-unsatu...
Subsea permafrost is still waking up after 12,000 years
Dec 31, 2020 (SPX)
Though researchers have been studying degrading subsea permafrost for decades, difficulty collecting measurements and sharing data across international and disc...
Study suggests great earthquakes as cause of Arctic warming
Dec 30, 2020 (SPX)
Global warming is one of the pressing issues faced by civilization. It is widely believed to be caused by human activity, which increases the concentration of g...
NASA's AIM Sees First Night-Shining Clouds of Antarctic Summer
Dec 22, 2020 (SPX)
NASA's Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere mission - AIM for short - spotted the summer's first noctilucent, or night-shining, clouds on Dec. 8, 2020. In the days...
NASA finds what a glacier's slope reveals about Greenland ice sheet thinning
Dec 21, 2020 (SPX)
Outlet glaciers are rivers of ice flowing within the cracks of the bedrock and draining into the surrounding sea. They retreat and start to thin as climate warm...
Water limitations in the tropics offset carbon uptake from Arctic greening
Dec 21, 2020 (SPX)
"This is a new look at where we can expect carbon uptake to go in the future," said scientist Rolf Reichle with the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMA...
Perfectly preserved wolf pup unearthed from Yukon permafrost
Dec 21, 2020 (UPI)
The wolf pup, described Monday in the journal Current Biology, was found by a gold miner in the Canadian Yukon while water-blasting a wall of frozen mud. The lo...
Giant A-68A iceberg loses chunk of ice
Dec 21, 2020 (ESA)
Satellite missions have been used to track the A-68A berg on its journey since 2017, when it broke off the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica. Over the past weeks...
Long-term permafrost record details Arctic thaw
Dec 17, 2020 (ESA)
Covering 18 million sq km, northern hemisphere permafrost areas have been warming since the 1980s, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's ...
NASA guest scientist set to spend a year at DLR's EDEN ISS Antarctic greenhouse for the first time
Dec 17, 2020 (SPX)
Plant scientist Jess Bunchek of NASA's Kennedy Space Center will spend a year on the perpetual ice as a DLR guest researcher during the winter of 2021, during w...
Delayed Arctic ice advance tracked back to atmospheric conditions near Alaska months prior
Dec 16, 2020 (SPX)
"Global warming is going on, so the global mean surface air temperature is increasing, but compared to that trend, the Arctic is warming twice or more as fast,"...
MIT oceanographers have an explanation for the Arctic's puzzling ocean turbulence
Dec 16, 2020 (SPX)
In most oceans, eddies are observed at every depth and are stronger at the surface. But since the 1970s, researchers have observed a peculiar pattern in the Arc...
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