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Glacier detachments: A new hazard in a warming world?
Apr 29, 2020 (SPX)
After National Park Service geologist Michael Loso documented a similar event in the same location in 2015, he recruited Mylene Jacquemart, a Ph.D. student at t...
Seal behavior helps scientists predict changes in Antarctic krill distribution
Apr 28, 2020 (UPI)
"We're using the feeding behavior of this one predator as an indicator of the habitat for their prey and how that could change," Luis Huckstadt, researcher with...
Arctic bird turns down immune system to conserve energy in winter
Apr 28, 2020 (UPI)
No bird lives closer to the North Pole than the the Svalbard rock ptarmigan. To better understand how the bird species survives the extreme conditions, research...
Greenland to receive US development funds
Apr 23, 2020 (AFP)
The money would primarily be used for projects that will "benefit the economic development of Greenland," the territory's government said in a statement, includ...
Eurasian ice sheet collapse raised seas eight metres: study
Apr 20, 2020 (AFP)
Earth's last Glacial Maximum period began around 33,000 years ago, when vast ice sheets covered much of the Northern Hemisphere. At the time, the Eurasian ice s...
Unusually clear skies drove record loss of Greenland ice in 2019
Apr 16, 2020 (SPX)
Because climate models that project the future melting of the Greenland ice sheet do not currently account for these atmospheric patterns, they may be underesti...
Alarms ring as Greenland ice loss causes 40% of 2019 sea level rise
Apr 16, 2020 (AFP)
A net loss of 600 billion tonnes was enough to raise the global watermark 1.5 millimetres, about 40 percent of total sea level rise in 2019. The Greenland icesh...
The Arctic may influence Eurasian extreme weather events in just two to three weeks
Apr 03, 2020 (SPX)
They published their analysis of current studies and future plans on March 30 in the peer-reviewed journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. "Many investigation...
Canada deploys Arctic Rangers to Inuit villages amid pandemic
Apr 03, 2020 (AFP)
"We received a request from the Quebec government for an intervention by the Armed Forces to lend a hand to northern and isolated communities," Prime Minister J...
Experiments lead to slip law for better forecasts of glacier speed, sea-level rise
Apr 03, 2020 (SPX)
That equation - or "slip law" - is a tool that scientists can include in computer models of glacier movement over the deformable beds of mud, sand, pebbles, roc...
Hidden source of carbon found at the Arctic coast
Mar 23, 2020 (SPX)
In a Nature Communications paper released, aquatic chemists and hydrologists from The University of Texas at Austin's Marine Science Institute and Jackson Schoo...
Increasingly mobile sea ice risks polluting Arctic neighbors
Mar 19, 2020 (SPX)
The study in the American Geophysical Union journal Earth's Future predicts that by mid-century, the average time it takes for sea ice to travel from one region...
Greenland shed ice at unprecedented rate in 2019
Mar 19, 2020 (SPX)
These new findings and others by glaciologists at the University of California, Irvine and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are published in AGU's journal Geoph...
GRACE, GRACE-FO satellite data track ice loss at the poles
Mar 19, 2020 (JPL)
Led by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of California, Irvine, the study also concludes that Antarctica continues to lose mass,...
How horses can save the permafrost
Mar 18, 2020 (SPX)
Theoretically speaking, 80 percent of all permafrost soils around the globe could be preserved until the year 2100, as has now been demonstrated by Prof. Christ...
Mammoth bone circles hint at how people survived Europe's ice age
Mar 17, 2020 (UPI)
The study, published in the journal Antiquity, uses radiocarbon dating and extraction by flotation of charcoal and chipped stone to show the oldest bone circle ...
What causes an ice age to end
Mar 16, 2020 (SPX)
During these times, longer and stronger summers melted the large Northern Hemisphere ice sheets, propelling the Earth's climate into a warm 'interglacial' state...
Six-fold jump in polar ice loss lifts global oceans
Mar 11, 2020 (AFP)
The kilometres-thick ice sheets atop land masses at the planet's extremities sloughed off 6.4 trillion tonnes of mass from 1992 through 2017, adding nearly two ...
Antarctic subglacial lakes are cold, dark and full of secrets
Mar 05, 2020 (SPX)
Gathering data on the biogeochemistry of these systems is an undertaking of Antarctic proportions. Trista Vick-Majors, Assistant Professor of Biological Science...
Russia seeks to boost Arctic economy, population
Mar 05, 2020 (AFP)
The Kremlin document on the "foundations of state policy in the Arctic to 2035", signed by President Vladimir Putin, set out its policy plans for the energy ric...
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