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Geologists found links between deep sea methane emissions and ice ages
Sep 23, 2019 (SPX)
"Methane is one of the most aggressive climate-warming greenhouse gases, while being also an important energy resource. Changes of methane concentrations in the...
Swiss hold high-altitude wake for lost glacier
Sep 22, 2019 (AFP)
Around 250 people including children joined the solemn two-hour climb up the side of Pizol mountain in northeastern Switzerland to the foot of the rapidly melti...
'Largest polar expedition in history' to probe Arctic climate
Sep 20, 2019 (AFP)
Aboard the massive icebreaker Polarstern, belonging to Germany's Alfred Wegener polar and marine institute, researchers hope to glean new understanding of the A...
Melting snowcaps spell water trouble for world's highest capital
Sep 19, 2019 (AFP)
But instead of surrendering, the locals in Bolivia's capital La Paz are finding new ways to tackle the changing climate. The sky-high metropolitan area's 2.7 mi...
Arctic sea ice coverage drops below 1.5M square miles for second time since 1979
Sep 13, 2019 (UPI)
Every autumn, the Arctic sea ice coverage reaches its minimum extent, before expanding as temperatures rise. Though the sea ice is still shrinking, the minimum ...
Using artificial intelligence to automate sea-ice charting
Sep 11, 2019 (ESA)
Manual ice-charting from multi-sensor satellite data has been used for years, but it is time-consuming because of the vast area of the Arctic Ocean. In order to...
Canada pledges to boost military in Arctic
Sep 10, 2019 (AFP)
The Arctic offers petroleum deposits and wood, as well as a major maritime shortcut between Europe and Asia through the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic...
In Greenland village, shorter winters cast doubts over dog sledding
Sep 06, 2019 (AFP)
Greenlanders prize the dogs for their endurance, using them to pull their sleds to hunt seals, whales and polar bears in the winter months when temperatures can...
Siberian region fights to preserve permafrost as planet warms
Aug 29, 2019 (AFP)
In Russia's Siberian city of Yakutsk, one of the coldest on Earth, climate change is causing dangerous melting of the frozen ground, or permafrost, on which the...
High above Greenland glaciers, NASA looks into melting ocean ice
Aug 29, 2019 (AFP)
They are part of Oceans Melting Greenland -- or OMG -- a mission that has flown around the vast island for four summers, dropping probes to collect data on how ...
Climate change forcing Alaskans to hunt for new ways to survive
Aug 29, 2019 (AFP)
But the waterway that runs along the village of Quinhagak, in southwest Alaska, barely freezes now, a testament to the warming temperatures wreaking havoc on th...
Landsat Illustrates Five Decades of Change to Greenland Glaciers
Aug 29, 2019 (SPX)
The glaciers appear brownish grey in this true-color Landsat 8 satellite image from Aug. 12, 2019. The color indicates that the surface has melted, a process th...
Greenland row is Trump positioning for Arctic battle: expert
Aug 21, 2019 (AFP)
US President Donald Trump has cancelled a trip to Denmark and launched a war of words with his Danish counterpart, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, after she r...
Stardust found in Antarctic snow, scientists say
Aug 21, 2019 (UPI)
The researchers ruled out the chance that iron-60 found in the snow was made by human action and, based on research published this month in the journal Physical...
Greenland isn't for sale but it is increasingly valuable
Aug 17, 2019 (AFP)
The accelerating polar ice melt has left sparsely populated Greenland, a self-governing part of Denmark, astride what are potentially major shipping routes and ...
Ice sheets impact core elements of the Earth's carbon cycle
Aug 17, 2019 (SPX)
Ice sheets which cover about 10 percent of our Earth's land surface at present, were thought 20 years ago to be frozen wastelands, devoid of life and with supre...
New insight into glaciers regulating global silicon cycling
Aug 17, 2019 (SPX)
This, say the researchers, could have implications for marine primary productivity and impact the carbon cycle on the timescales of ice ages. This is because si...
Human-induced global warming responsible for West Antarctic's melting ice
Aug 16, 2019 (UPI)
The research -- published this week in the journal Nature Geoscience -- is the first to draw a direct link between human-induced global warming and Western Anta...
Arctic could be iceless in September if temps increase 2 degrees
Aug 15, 2019 (SPX)
The study by an international team of researchers was published in Nature Communications. "The target is the sensitivity of sea ice to temperature," said Won Ch...
Paleontologists discover human-sized penguin in New Zealand
Aug 14, 2019 (UPI)
With the addition of the newly discovered species, named Crossvallia waiparensis, to the megafauna lineup, New Zealand's giant parrot, giant eagle, giant burrow...
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