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NASA's Operation IceBridge completes eleven years of polar surveys
Dec 12, 2019 (SPX)
Designed to collect data during the years between NASA's two Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellites, ICESat and ICESat-2, IceBridge made its final polar flig...
Research confirms timing of tropical glacier melt at the end of the last ice age
Dec 12, 2019 (SPX)
The finding of synchrony in ice retreat across the global tropics clarifies how the low latitudes transformed during one of Earth's most extreme climate change ...
Climate concerns put Austria glacier project on thin ice
Dec 11, 2019 (AFP)
Schultes is the managing director of the Pitztaler Gletscherbahnen mountain lift company, which is trying to win approval for a new ski area to connect the Pitz...
Satellites capture decades of change across the Arctic
Dec 11, 2019 (SPX)
At a media briefing Dec. 9 at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, scientists released new time series of images of Alaska, Gr...
Greenland's Rapid Melt Will Mean More Flooding
Dec 11, 2019 (JPL)
The findings, which forecast an approximate 3 to 5 inches (70 to 130 millimeters) of global sea level rise by 2100, are in alignment with previous worst-case pr...
Development of the Patagonian Ice Fields reveals the enormous complexity of physical interactions
Dec 11, 2019 (SPX)
This represents the average rise in sea levels due to all of the world's glaciers and ice caps - excluding the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica. As clear ...
Could we cool the Earth with an ice-free Arctic
Dec 11, 2019 (SPX)
Scientists estimate that summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean will be largely gone within a generation. This is bad news for the world, as ice and snow reflect a ...
Rescuers search for Chilean plane missing near Antarctica
Dec 10, 2019 (AFP)
The C-130 Hercules cargo plane vanished after departing an air base in the southern city of Punta Arenas Monday at 4:55 pm (19:55 GMT) en route to Chile's Antar...
The Antarctic: study from Kiel provides data about the structure of the icy continent
Dec 10, 2019 (SPX)
Satellite data from the European Space Agency (ESA) has now been used as the basis for new insights on the deep structure of the continent. Scientists from Kiel...
GOCE reveals what's going on deep below Antarctica
Dec 10, 2019 (ESA)
A layer of ice up to 4 km thick, fierce winds and temperatures that can reach -60 C make Antarctica one of the harshest environments on Earth. This, coupled wit...
Last remaining glaciers in the Pacific will soon melt away
Dec 10, 2019 (SPX)
The glaciers in Papua, Indonesia, are "the canaries in the coal mine" for other mountaintop glaciers around the world, said Lonnie Thompson, one of the senior a...
2019 was nearly, but not quite, the worst year for the Arctic
Dec 10, 2019 (AFP)
The North Pole has been warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet since the 1990s, a phenomenon climatologists call Arctic amplification, and the past six...
Can Arctic 'ice management' combat climate change?
Dec 09, 2019 (SPX)
Though it sounds like science fiction, it's a serious suggestion to combat climate change: ten million wind-powered pumps, distributed throughout the Arctic, ar...
Weak Arctic ice sees 56 polar bears descend on Russian village
Dec 06, 2019 (AFP)
The Russian branch of the World Wildlife Fund said climate change was to blame, as unusually warm temperatures prevented coastal ice from forming. The WWF said ...
Calving to leave Thwaites Glacier increasingly vulnerable to collapse
Dec 05, 2019 (UPI)
New research -- published this week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters -- suggests that once that protection is gone, the glacier's flow toward the oce...
Spray-painted polar bear sparks alarm in Russia
Dec 03, 2019 (AFP)
Local media reported Tuesday that scientists had marked the bear because it was scavenging for food near a human-inhabited area in the Arctic region. The video ...
McGill-led research unravels mystery of how early animals survived ice age
Dec 03, 2019 (SPX)
In a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, researchers studied iron-rich rocks left behind...
Picky penguins are more vulnerable to impacts of climate change
Dec 03, 2019 (UPI)
Krill, small shrimp-like crustaceans, are a vital resource for penguins, seals and whales in Antarctica. But new research suggests some are more partial to the ...
Drone images show Greenland ice sheet becoming more unstable as it fractures
Dec 03, 2019 (SPX)
Using custom-built drones strong enough to withstand the extreme Arctic conditions, researchers led by the University of Cambridge made the first drone-based ob...
Antarctica's thinning ice shelves causing more ice to move from land into sea
Dec 03, 2019 (SPX)
While it has been suggested that the thinning ice shelves were responsible for a direct loss of ice from the land-based ice sheet into the ocean, there was no a...
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