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New melting hotspot found in East Antarctica
Aug 24, 2020 (UPI)
According to a new study, published Monday in the journal Nature Communications, an influx of warm seawater into the Lützow-Holm Bay has accelerated melt rates...
Arctic sea ice melting faster than forecast
Aug 18, 2020 (AFP)
Until now, climate models have predicted a slow and steady increase of Arctic temperatures, but a new study shows the warming is occurring at a more rapid pace....
Greenland ice melting past 'tipping point': study
Aug 17, 2020 (AFP)
"Greenland's glaciers have passed a tipping point of sorts, where the snowfall that replenishes the ice sheet each year cannot keep up with the ice that is flow...
Sun rises again at Concordia research station
Aug 16, 2020 (ESA)
ESA-sponsored medical doctor Stijn Thoolen (left) and engineer Wenceslas Marie-Sainte (right) are part of the 12-member crew spending an entire year at Concordi...
Genomic analysis suggests climate change caused the extinction of wooly rhinos
Aug 14, 2020 (UPI)
Scientists collected and sequenced DNA samples from the frozen remains of 14 well-preserved woolly rhinoceros specimens. Their analysis, detailed this week in t...
Italy resort lifts alert on melting glacier threat
Aug 09, 2020 (AFP)
Around 15 people who were evacuated can now return to their homes in Courmayeur and traffic in the Cap Ferret valley is permitted again, said a statement from t...
Italian valley still in 'red zone' as Mont Blanc glacier threatens collapse
Aug 07, 2020 (AFP)
"No one gets through! No cars, bikes or pedestrians," was the message at a checkpoint where an automatic barrier and two guards blocked the small tarmac road sn...
Discovering new penguin colonies from space
Aug 07, 2020 (ESA)
The findings, published in Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, reveal 11 new colonies, three of which were previously identified but never confirmed. Th...
CryoSat taken to new heights for ice science
Aug 07, 2020 (ESA)
CryoSat carries a radar altimeter and NASA's ICESat-2 carries a laser. Both instruments measure the height of ice by emitting a signal and timing how long it ta...
Glaciers in New Zealand's Southern Alps more than half-gone
Aug 07, 2020 (UPI)
Glacial volume and extent in the Southern Alps peaked during the Little Ice Age, 400 years ago. Since then, the glaciers have been in decline. According to the ...
U.S., Canada, France, Denmark prepare for Arctic military exercise
Aug 05, 2020 (UPI)
Nanook-Tuugaalik 2020, the maritime component of an annual training exercise in the eastern Atlantic Ocean, is sponsored by the Canadian armed forces. The event...
New study shows retreat of East Antarctic ice sheet during previous warm periods
Aug 03, 2020 (SPX)
The study, published July 22 in Nature, focused on the Wilkes Basin, one of several bowl-like basins at the edges of the ice sheet that are considered vulnerabl...
A snapshot of melting Arctic sea ice during the summer of 2018
Aug 03, 2020 (SPX)
At the peak of its melting season, in July 2018, the Arctic was losing sea ice at a rate of 105,500 square kilometers per day - an area bigger than Iceland or t...
A new chemical analysis upends conventional explanation for global cooling
Aug 03, 2020 (SPX)
Texas researchers now have reported in Science Advances new evidence for another, more likely explanation - the eruption of a volcano on what is now the Europea...
Increasing Arctic freshwater is driven by climate change
Aug 03, 2020 (SPX)
The paper, published July 27, 2020 in Geophysical Research Letters, examined the unexplained increase in Arctic freshwater over the past two decades and what th...
Cooling of Earth caused by eruptions, not meteors
Aug 03, 2020 (SPX)
Michael Waters, director of The Center for The Study of the First Americans and Distinguished Professor at Texas A and M University, and colleagues from Baylor ...
Iceland wants to preserve Arctic from US-China tensions: PM
Jul 31, 2020 (AFP)
Her comments followed a trip to Denmark last week by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during which he criticised China for designating itself a near-Arctic nat...
A plunge in incoming sunlight may have triggered 'snowball earths'
Jul 29, 2020 (SPX)
Scientists have considered multiple scenarios for what may have tipped the planet into each ice age. While no single driving process has been identified, it's a...
Antarctica more widely impacted by humans than previously thought
Jul 27, 2020 (SPX)
How widespread this activity is across the continent has never been quantified. We know Antarctica has no cities, agriculture or industry. But we have never had...
Highest-ever temperature recorded in Norwegian Arctic archipelago
Jul 25, 2020 (AFP)
According to scientific study, global warming in the Arctic is happening twice as fast as for the rest of the planet. For the second day in a row, the archipela...
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