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Antarctic phytoplankton trends reveal sea ice retreat impact; Ecosystem engineering in the oceans
Aug 15, 2025 (SPX)
Published in Nature Climate Change, the research analysed ESA's Climate Change Initiative records of sea surface temperature, ocean colour and sea ice extent, c...
Comet debris signs found in Baffin Bay sediments linked to Younger Dryas cooling
Aug 08, 2025 (SPX)
The Younger Dryas saw global temperatures drop by about 10oC in under a year, with cold conditions persisting for roughly 1,200 years. Many scientists attribute...
Deadly Indian Himalayan flood likely caused by glacier collapse, experts say
Aug 07, 2025 (AFP)
Scores of people are missing after water and debris tore down a narrow mountain valley, smashing into the town of Dharali in Uttarakhand state on Tuesday. Sever...
Body of missing man found on melting glacier after 28 years
Aug 07, 2025 (AFP)
The body of 31-year-old Nasiruddin was spotted by locals near the edge of the shrinking Lady Meadows glacier in the Kohistan region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provin...
Reindeer suffer as Finland swelters in record heatwave
Aug 05, 2025 (AFP)
Finland recently had 22 days of temperatures over 30C, the longest such heatwave since records began in 1961, the Finnish Meteorological Institute said Monday. ...
Greenland subglacial lake eruption reshapes surface ice landscape
Aug 01, 2025 (SPX)
The international study, led by Lancaster University and the UK Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, focused on a previously uncharted subglacial lake bu...
Turkey's glaciers fall victim to climate change
Jul 29, 2025 (AFP)
A mountain guide for 15 years, Ozdemir then turned toward the torrent carrying dozens of blocks of ice below a slope covered with grass and rocks -- a sign of g...
Finland breaks 50-year-old heat record
Jul 25, 2025 (AFP)
As Parikkala in eastern Finland hit 30.3 degrees Celsius before midday, this meant that temperatures have now soared to 30C in parts of the country 14 days in a...
Heat melts Alps snow and glaciers, leaving water shortage
Jul 23, 2025 (AFP)
"Everything has dried up," said Noemie Dagan, who looks after the Selle refuge, located at an altitude of 2,673 meters (8,769 feet) in the Ecrins, a mountain ra...
The eye-opening science of close encounters with polar bears
Jul 22, 2025 (AFP)
First you have to find it and then shoot it with a sedative dart from a helicopter before a vet dares approach on foot to put a GPS collar around its neck. Then...
From Antarctica to Brussels, hunting climate clues in old ice
Jul 18, 2025 (AFP)
Trapped inside the cylindrical icicles are tiny air bubbles that can provide a snapshot of what the earth's atmosphere looked like back then. "We want to know a...
Deadly China-Nepal flood caused by glacial lake: experts
Jul 09, 2025 (AFP)
About 30 people are still missing after Tuesday's floods, including 19 people in Nepal and 11 in China, according to officials and media reports. "Our initial a...
Glacier retreat could drive a surge in volcanic eruptions worldwide
Jul 08, 2025 (SPX)
The research team, led by scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and supported by collaborators at Lehigh University, UCLA, and Dickinson College, ...
German navy to patrol the Arctic
Jun 30, 2025 (AFP)
"Maritime threats are mounting... To name but a few, Russia is militarising the Arctic," Defence Minister Boris Pistorius told a press conference. "We are seein...
Denmark develops tool to predict ice-free Arctic summers
Jun 27, 2025 (AFP)
"IcyAlert is designed to provide knowledge and early warnings that society can act on," project leader Tian Tian said in a statement. Developed by scientists in...
In Norway's Arctic, meteorologists have a first-row seat to climate change
Jun 23, 2025 (AFP)
At 66, Robertsen retired after enduring spartan conditions during missions that totalled eight years on two islands of the Svalbard archipelago: Bjornoya (Bear ...
How did life survive 'Snowball Earth'? In ponds, study suggests
Jun 19, 2025 (AFP)
Liquid water appears to be the most important ingredient for life on any planet, raising the question: how did anything survive such frosty, brutal times? A gro...
Arctic warming spurs growth of carbon-soaking peatlands
Jun 19, 2025 (AFP)
Peatlands are the largest terrestrial store of carbon, locking away twice as much heat-trapping CO2 from the atmosphere in their waterlogged soils as all the wo...
Permafrost in Swiss Alps at record warmth
Jun 17, 2025 (AFP)
Permafrost is sub-surface soil that remains at freezing temperature or below for two years or more. When it thaws -- something now happening at an increased rat...
Macron, on Greenland visit, berates Trump for threats against the territory
Jun 15, 2025 (AFP)
"That's not what allies do," Macron said in Nuuk, Greenland's capital. Macron is the first foreign head of state to visit the vast territory -- at the crossroad...
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