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Marines, sailors to conduct arctic training exercise in Norway
Oct 29, 2020 (UPI)
The battalion will quarantine for two weeks in Norway and then will participate in cold-weather warfare and survival training led by Norwegian Army instructors,...
Giant metallic 'steed' traverses Iceland's threatened glacier
Oct 29, 2020 (AFP)
The red glacier mega bus is 15 metres (50-foot) long and fitted with massive tyres for traction across the powder snow of western Iceland's vast Langjokull ice ...
Multi-drone system autonomously surveys penguin colonies
Oct 29, 2020 (SPX)
That's how, three-and-a-half years later, Schwager's graduate student, Kunal Shah, found himself at the famous McMurdo Station, ready for the first Antarctic te...
Irregular appearances of glacial and interglacial climate states
Oct 28, 2020 (SPX)
In order to understand human beings' role in the development of our current climate, we have to look back a long way, since there has always been climate change...
Arctic sea ice at record low October levels: Danish institute
Oct 28, 2020 (AFP)
Diminishing sea ice comes as a reminder about how the Arctic is hit particularly hard by global warming. Since the 1990s, warming has been twice as fast in the ...
Ice loss due to warming leads to warming due to ice loss: a vicious circle
Oct 28, 2020 (SPX)
It is, however, not in addition to IPCC projections of future warming since these already take the relevant mechanisms into account. Still, the scientists could...
Ice sheet melt reshaping coastal Greenland
Oct 28, 2020 (SPX)
A new study in AGU's Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, which publishes research on the processes affecting the form and function of Earth's surfac...
Seabird response to abrupt climate change 5,000 years ago transformed Falklands ecosystems
Oct 27, 2020 (SPX)
A 14,000-year paleoecological reconstruction of the sub-Antarctic islands led by University of Maine researchers has found that seabird establishment occurred d...
The arrival of seabirds transformed the Falkland Islands 5,000 years ago
Oct 23, 2020 (UPI)
Today, the remote South Atlantic islands remain a refuge for several important seabird species, including great shearwaters, black-browed albatrosses, white-chi...
Biggest North Pole mission back from 'dying Arctic'
Oct 12, 2020 (AFP)
The German Alfred Wegener Institute's Polarstern ship returned to the port of Bremerhaven after 389 days spent drifting through the Arctic trapped in ice, allow...
Meltwater lakes are accelerating glacier ice loss
Oct 11, 2020 (SPX)
Therefore, estimates of recession rates and ice mass loss from lake-terminating glaciers in the coming decades are likely to be under-estimated. Many mountain g...
Arctic odyssey ends, bringing home tales of alarming ice loss
Oct 09, 2020 (AFP)
Coronavirus restrictions mean there will be no grand fanfare when the German Alfred Wegener Institute's Polarstern ship docks. But the information gathered by r...
Antarctic Peninsula at warmest in decades: study
Oct 03, 2020 (AFP)
Between January and August, temperatures reached between 2 and 3 degrees Celsius (35.6 and 37.4 degrees Fahrenheit) on the peninsula, which is the northernmost ...
Discharges from western North America disrupted climate during last ice age
Oct 02, 2020 (UPI)
New research -- published this week in the journal Science -- suggests this shiftiness was, at least in part, caused by successive discharges from the ice sheet...
Antarctic sea ice may not cap carbon emissions as much as previously thought
Oct 01, 2020 (SPX)
However, researchers at MIT have now identified a counteracting effect that suggests Antarctic sea ice may not be as powerful a control on the global carbon cyc...
Sea level: Greenland ice loss worst in 12,000 years
Sep 30, 2020 (AFP)
The study -- based on ice core data and models and published in the journal Nature -- is the first to painstakingly reconstruct Greenland's ice loss record over...
B-1B Lancers fly over North Pole, join Norway's air force in training
Sep 30, 2020 (UPI)
The bombers, from the 345th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, which headquartered at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, conducted interoperability training exercises with ...
-69.6 Celsius: New Arctic cold record from 1991 found
Sep 23, 2020 (AFP)
The temperature, recorded at a weather station outside of the usual network, was exhumed by "climate detectives" who later had it confirmed by the World Meteoro...
Antarctica to lift seas by metres per degree of warming: study
Sep 23, 2020 (AFP)
These devastating increases in the global waterline -- enough to cripple coastal cities from Mumbai to Miami and displace hundreds of millions of people -- woul...
Warming temperatures are driving Arctic greening
Sep 23, 2020 (SPX)
"The Arctic tundra is one of the coldest biomes on Earth, and it's also one of the most rapidly warming," said Logan Berner, a global change ecologist with Nort...
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