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Global change ecologist leads NASA satellite study of rapid greening across Arctic tundra
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, assistant research professor with N...
Arctic sea ice minimum at second lowest on record in 2020
Sep 22, 2020 (SPX)
In winter, frozen seawater covers almost the entire Arctic Ocean and neighboring seas. This sea ice undergoes seasonal patterns of change - thinning and shrinki...
Plans underway for new polar ice and snow topography mission
Sep 22, 2020 (ESA)
With a launch planned in 2027, the CRISTAL mission will carry, for the first time on a polar mission, a dual-frequency radar altimeter, and microwave radiometer...
If Arctic ice melt doesn't boost sea levels, do we care?
Sep 22, 2020 (AFP)
Until this month, only once in the last 42 years has Earth's frozen skull cap covered less than four million square kilometres (1.5 million square miles). The t...
Arctic ice melt doesn't boost sea levels, so do we care?
Sep 21, 2020 (AFP)
Until this month, only once in the last 42 years has Earth's frozen skull cap covered less than four million square kilometres (1.5 million square miles). The t...
Sea ice triggered the Little Ice Age, finds a new study
Sep 18, 2020 (SPX)
The study, published in Science Advances, reports a comprehensive reconstruction of sea ice transported from the Arctic Ocean through the Fram Strait, by Greenl...
Antarctica: cracks in the ice
Sep 15, 2020 (SPX)
A team of researchers including some from TU Delft have now investigated one of these processes in detail: the emergence and development of damage/cracks in par...
Arctic transitioning to a new climate state
Sep 15, 2020 (SPX)
Weather patterns in the upper latitudes have always varied from year to year, with more or less sea ice, colder or warmer winters, and longer or shorter seasons...
B-1 bombers fly over Arctic's East Siberian Sea in show of force
Sep 11, 2020 (UPI)
B-1 Lancer planes, assigned to the 345th Bomb Squadron at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, demonstrated how U.S. strategic bombers can "support any mission, anywher...
MOSAiC Arctic expedition reaches North Pole
Sep 10, 2020 (ESA)
In September 2019, the German research icebreaker Polarstern set sail from Tromso, Norway, to spend a year drifting through the Arctic Ocean - trapped in ice. A...
Naval vessels from U.S., Britain, Norway train together in Arctic Ocean
Sep 09, 2020 (UPI)
Led by the British Navy, the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Ross united with ​​the Royal Navy frigate HMS Sutherland, the civilian-manned ...
Russian ex-Gulag town on China's doorstep eyes rebirth
Sep 06, 2020 (AFP)
In the centre of a town that once served as headquarters of one of the largest Soviet-era Gulag camps, children huddle around a small skate park, the sole attra...
Bering Sea ice at lowest levels in 5,500 years: study
Sep 02, 2020 (AFP)
Researchers analyzed vegetation that accumulated on the uninhabited island of St Matthew over the last five millennia. They looked at variations in peat layers ...
Mastodons migrated vast distances in response to climate change
Sep 01, 2020 (UPI)
In a largest-of-its-kind survey of mastodon mitochondrial genomes, using DNA collected from 33 individual animals, researchers were able to retrace the movement...
Global survey using NASA data shows dramatic growth of glacial lakes
Sep 01, 2020 (SPX)
The findings, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, will aid researchers assessing the potential hazards to communities downstream of these often unst...
Earth's ice sheets tracking worst-case climate scenarios
Aug 31, 2020 (AFP)
Mass loss from 2007 to 2017 due to melt-water and crumbling ice aligned almost perfectly with the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change's (IPCC) most extre...
Climate scientists now know how cold it got during the last ice age
Aug 26, 2020 (UPI)
According to a new paper, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, the average temperature during the Last Glacial Maximum, LGM, which occurred roughly 20,000...
Fire on Coast Guard icebreaker Healy ends Arctic scientific mission
Aug 26, 2020 (UPI)
There were no injuries aboard the 21 year-old ship, but its diesel-powered starboard propulsion motor and shaft were damaged. The cause of the fire is currently...
Antarctica's glacier-damming ice shelves at risk
Aug 26, 2020 (AFP)
Melt water running into deep fissures caused by warming air is undermining the structural integrity of these natural barricades, they reported in Nature. "If th...
Record loss of Greenland ice in 2019
Aug 24, 2020 (JPL)
The large loss - 532 billion tons -is a stark reversal of the more moderate rate of melt seen in the previous two years. And it exceeds Greenland's previous rec...
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