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Air Force releases Arctic defense strategy

Jul 21, 2020 (UPI)

"The Arctic is among the most strategically significant regions of the world today - the keystone from which the U.S. Air and Space Forces exercise vigilance," ...

Climate change on track to wipe out polar bears by 2100

Jul 20, 2020 (AFP)

In some regions they are already caught in a vicious downward spiral, with shrinking sea ice cutting short the time bears have for hunting seals, scientists rep...

Arctic Ocean changes driven by sub-Arctic seas

Jul 13, 2020 (SPX)

The University of Alaska Fairbanks and Finnish Meteorological Institute led the international effort, which included researchers from six countries. The first o...

First comprehensive documentation of glacial retreat in the Alps

Jul 13, 2020 (SPX)

They found that the Alps have lost approximately 17 percent of their total ice volume since the turn of the millennium. The team recently published the results ...

First comprehensive documentation of glacial retreat in the alps

Jul 13, 2020 (SPX)

The team combined the elevation models with optical images from NASA's Landsat satellites. They found that the Alps have lost approximately 17 percent of their ...

Giant A-68 iceberg three years on

Jul 13, 2020 (ESA)

When it calved, A-68 was about twice the size of Luxemburg and one of the largest icebergs on record, changing the outline of the Antarctic Peninsula forever. D...

Pink ice in Italy's Alps sparks algae probe

Jul 05, 2020 (AFP)

There is debate about where the algae come from, but Biagio Di Mauro of Italy's National Research Council said the pink snow observed on parts of the Presena gl...

Arctic plants may not provide predicted carbon sequestration potential

Jul 03, 2020 (SPX)

Current ecosystem and climate models suggest that, as the Arctic warms, tundra ecosystems are becoming more productive, with greater photosynthesis resulting in...

In the Arctic, spring snowmelt triggers fresh CO2 production

Jul 03, 2020 (SPX)

This is in addition to trapped carbon escaping from the soil, which means an acceleration in warming that is not quite accounted for in current measurement tech...

Gnawing beavers could accelerate thawing of Arctic permafrost

Jun 30, 2020 (UPI)

According to a new study, published Tuesday in the journal Environmental Research Letters, beaver numbers are up across Alaska's Arctic tundra, and they're buil...

The magnetic history of ice

Jun 30, 2020 (SPX)

The idea for investigating a possible connection between ice and Earth's magnetic history arose far from the source of the planet's ice - on the sunny isle of C...

South Pole warming three times faster than rest of Earth: study

Jun 29, 2020 (AFP)

Antarctica's temperature varies widely according to season and region, and for years it had been thought that the South Pole had stayed cool even as the contine...

Antarctic sea ice loss is good news for the continent's penguins

Jun 25, 2020 (UPI)

Researchers had previously illuminated a link between sea ice extent in Antarctica and breeding success among Adelie penguin colonies, but a correlation doesn't...

Plastic 'has entered' Antarctic terrestrial food chain

Jun 23, 2020 (AFP)

While the infiltration of microplastics throughout the oceans is well-known, researchers said their findings provided the first evidence of contamination in the...

Seasonal sea ice changes hold clues to controlling CO2 levels, ancient ice shows

Jun 23, 2020 (SPX)

The paper by scientists from UNSW and Keele University was published in Nature Geoscience. Led by Professor Chris Fogwill, an Honorary Professor at UNSW and Pro...

Italian glacier covered to slow melting

Jun 20, 2020 (AFP)

In northern Italy, the Presena glacier has lost more than one third of its volume since 1993. Once the ski season is over and cable cars are berthed, conservati...

Artificial intelligence could revolutionize sea ice warnings

Jun 19, 2020 (SPX)

"As of now, large resources are needed to create these ice warnings, and most of them are made by The Norwegian Meteorological Institute and similar centres," S...

Arctic Ocean acidification will be worse than scientists thought

Jun 18, 2020 (UPI)

New analysis -- published this week in the journal Nature -- suggests the ocean will experience more dramatic acidification than previously anticipated. If it w...

Western half of Antarctica warming faster than eastern half, new study shows why

Jun 15, 2020 (UPI)

Now, researchers in South Korea have developed an explanation for why the western half of the icy continent is warming faster than the eastern half. Their analy...

Tiny sand grains trigger massive glacial surges

Jun 15, 2020 (SPX)

When this happens, a glacial surge can set off avalanches, flood rivers and lakes, and overwhelm downstream settlements. What triggers the surges themselves has...