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Antarctic ice walls protect the climate
Feb 28, 2020 (SPX)
The ocean can store much more heat than the atmosphere. The deep sea around Antarctica stores thermal energy that is the equivalent of heating the air above the...
Picturing permafrost in the Arctic
Feb 27, 2020 (ESA)
According to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report, permafrost temperatures have increased to record high levels from the 1980s to...
Huge stores of Arctic sea ice likely contributed to past climate cooling
Feb 24, 2020 (SPX)
Raymond Bradley, director of UMass Amherst's Climate Systems Research Center, and lead author Alan Condron, research scientist at Woods Hole, explain that geolo...
Earth's glacial cycles enhanced by Antarctic sea-ice
Feb 24, 2020 (SPX)
This is the conclusion of a study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America by a team of scient...
Record temperatures spark fresh concern for Antarctic ice
Feb 21, 2020 (AFP)
On February 9, a team of researchers on Seymour Island, part of an archipelago curving off the northern tip of Antarctica, measured 20.75 degrees Celsius (69.35...
NASA flights detect millions of Arctic methane hotspots
Feb 17, 2020 (JPL)
That's a tricky feat. The Arctic spans thousands of miles, many of them inaccessible to humans. This inaccessibility has limited most ground-based observations ...
Ancient Antarctic ice melt increased sea levels by 3+ meters - and it could happen again
Feb 17, 2020 (SPX)
"Not only did we lose a lot of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, but this happened very early during the Last Interglacial," says Chris Turney, Professor in Earth a...
Coincidences influence the onset and ending of ice ages
Feb 14, 2020 (SPX)
An example of that are the periodicities of ice ages - that is, how ice ages come and go. This is described in a theory developed by amongst others the astronom...
Antarctica registers record temperature of over 20 C
Feb 13, 2020 (AFP)
"We'd never seen a temperature this high in Antarctica," Brazilian scientist Carlos Schaefer told AFP. He cautioned that the reading, taken at a monitoring stat...
Global warming to blame for hottest day in Argentine Antarctica
Feb 07, 2020 (AFP)
Temperatures climbed to 18.3 degrees Celsius (64.9 degrees Fahrenheit) at midday Thursday at the research station Esperanza base, the highest temperature on rec...
Argentine Antarctica has hottest day on record
Feb 07, 2020 (AFP)
Temperatures climbed to 18.3 degrees Celsius (64.9 degrees Fahrenheit) at midday at the research station Esperanza base, the highest temperature on record since...
Permafrost collapse is speeding climate change: study
Feb 04, 2020 (AFP)
Scientists have long fretted that climate change -- which has heated Arctic and subarctic regions at double the global rate -- will release planet-warming CO2 a...
How the ocean is gnawing away at glaciers
Feb 04, 2020 (SPX)
The glaciers are melting rapidly: Greenland's ice is now melting seven times faster than in the 1990s - an alarming discovery, since climate change will likely ...
Robotic submarine snaps first-ever images at foundation of notorious Antarctic glacier
Feb 03, 2020 (SPX)
The images, taken by a robotic underwater vehicle, were part of a broad set of data collected in a variety of experiments by an international team. The Internat...
Global science team on red alert as Arctic lands grow greener
Feb 03, 2020 (SPX)
The latest drone and satellite technology is helping an international team of researchers to better understand how the vast, treeless regions called the tundra ...
Hot pots helped ancient Siberian hunters stay alive, warm
Feb 03, 2020 (UPI)
For the new study, scientists extracted and analyzed fats and lipids from some of the oldest pieces of pottery in the world, fragments sourced from dig sites ac...
The first potentially invasive species to reach the Antarctica on drifting marine algae
Feb 03, 2020 (SPX)
The new study on biodiversity in the Antarctic ecosystems is led by the lecturer Conxita Avila, from the Faculty of Biology and the Biodiversity Research Instit...
Researchers make critical advances in quantifying methane released from the Arctic Ocean
Feb 03, 2020 (SPX)
Methane is well known as a major contributor to global warming. Understanding the natural sources of this gas, especially in the fast-warming Arctic, is critica...
Scientists find record warm water in Antarctica, pointing to cause behind troubling glacier melt
Jan 30, 2020 (SPX)
"Warm waters in this part of the world, as remote as they may seem, should serve as a warning to all of us about the potential dire changes to the planet brough...
Scientists find far higher than expected rate of underwater glacial melting
Jan 30, 2020 (SPX)
The findings, which challenge current frameworks for analyzing ocean-glacier interactions, have implications for the rest of the world's tidewater glaciers, who...
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