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Russian mayor charged over failure to contain Arctic spill
Jun 11, 2020 (AFP)
Russia's Investigative Committee said in a statement that Rinat Akhmetchin had failed in his duties to contain the spill, which environmentalists say is the lar...
Trump directs US to develop new Icebreaking fleet to counter Russia, China
Jun 10, 2020 (Sputnik)
The US government has been tasked with an inter-agency programme to develop a new fleet of icebreakers to project American national interests in the Arctic and ...
US opens consulate in Greenland capital
Jun 10, 2020 (AFP)
"The consulate is another positive sign of the strong collaboration between the U.S. government and the Greenlandic and Danish governments," said US ambassador ...
Climate change brings fires, floods and moths to Siberia
Jun 09, 2020 (AFP)
Spanning millions of square kilometres east of the Urals to the Pacific Ocean, the area has been particularly hard hit this year by extreme weather, which scien...
A tiny arctic shrub reveals secrets of plant growth on Svalbard
Jun 08, 2020 (SPX)
But beyond its humble appearance, this little shrub plays an outsized role when it comes to the creatures living in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. It's not...
Melting permafrost: a pandora's box
Jun 05, 2020 (AFP)
On May 29, 21,000 tonnes of diesel fuel spilled from a reservoir that collapsed which Russian metals giant Norilsk Nickel owns through a subsidiary. Norilsk, on...
On the hunt for megafauna in North America
Jun 03, 2020 (SPX)
The research, published in Nature Communications, analysed ancient DNA from bone fragments and soil found inside Hall's Cave, located in central Texas. The rese...
Ice melt linked to accelerated regional freshwater depletion
Jun 02, 2020 (JPL)
The impact of melting ice in Greenland and Antarctica on the world's oceans is well documented. But the largest contributors to sea level rise in the 20th centu...
Climate change forces Sami reindeer herders to adapt
May 29, 2020 (AFP)
But now Margret Fjellstrom and Daniel Viklund, a married couple from Sweden's indigenous Sami community with hundreds of tawny reindeer, worry about a new threa...
Antarctic ice sheets capable of retreating up to 50 meters per day
May 29, 2020 (SPX)
The study, led by the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge, used patterns of delicate wave-like ridges on the Antarctic seafloor to cal...
Siberian heatwave, early Greenland ice melt worry researchers
May 22, 2020 (AFP)
The start of the melting season in Greenland -- defined as when the melting extends over five percent of the ice sheet -- was registered on May 13, according to...
Climate change is turning Antarctica green, study finds
May 20, 2020 (AFP)
Although often considered devoid of plant life, Antarctica is home to several types of algae, which grow on slushy snow and suck carbon dioxide from the air. Re...
Last Antarctic sunset as Winter 2020 approaches
May 19, 2020 (ESA)
Sunday 3 May marked the start of the crew's winter-over period. The 12-member group will spend the next few months in total darkness. This is in addition to the...
NASA's ICESat-2 measures Arctic Ocean's sea ice thickness, snow cover
May 15, 2020 (SPX)
ICESat-2 has a laser altimeter, which uses pulses of light to precisely measure height down to about an inch. Each second, the instrument sends out 10,000 pulse...
Antarctica's splendid isolation keeps coronavirus at bay
May 14, 2020 (AFP)
The natural isolation of the frozen and desolate expanse has been taken to new extremes since the WHO declared a pandemic on March 11. Authorities canceled all ...
Researchers go 'cuckoo' over Antarctic penguin poop
May 14, 2020 (AFP)
"Penguin guano produces significantly high levels of nitrous oxide around their colonies," said the head of the study, Professor Bo Elberling, of the University...
New technique uses radar to gauge methane release from Arctic lakes
May 12, 2020 (SPX)
By using synthetic aperture radar, or SAR, researchers were able to find a correlation between "brighter" satellite images of frozen lakes and the amount of met...
US Navy ships in Barents Sea near Russia, 1st time since 1980s
May 04, 2020 (AFP)
The move came as US officials said rivals like China and Russia were increasingly testing US defense resolve with their own air and sea challenges during the co...
How catastrophic outburst floods may have carved Greenland's 'grand canyon'
May 01, 2020 (SPX)
Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the University of Copenhagen's Centre for Ice and Climate now propose a new mechanism for how the mega...
NASA space laser missions map 16 years of ice sheet loss
May 01, 2020 (SPX)
The results provide insights into how the polar ice sheets are changing, demonstrating definitively that small gains of ice in East Antarctica are dwarfed by ma...
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