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Icebergs delay Southern Hemisphere future warming

Aug 13, 2019 (SPX)

Unabated Global Warming threatens the stability of the Antarctic ice sheet. Recent observations reveal a rapid thinning of the Pine Island and Thwaites glacier ...

Arctic sea-ice loss has minimal influence on severe cold winter weather, research shows

Aug 13, 2019 (SPX)

The possible connection between Arctic sea-ice loss and extreme cold weather - such as the deep freezes that can grip the USA in the winter months - has long be...

Over a century of Arctic sea ice volume reconstructed with help from historic ships' logs

Aug 12, 2019 (SPX)

A new paper now extends the estimate of Arctic sea ice volume back more than a century, to 1901. To do so it used both modern-day computer simulations and histo...

Canadian iceberg hunter on the trail of white gold

Aug 02, 2019 (AFP)

Using his trusty binoculars, the rotund, 60-year-old captain of the fishing boat 'Green Waters' has spotted his next prize -- it's several dozen meters tall and...

'Iceberg Corridor' sparks tourist boom on Canada's east coast

Aug 02, 2019 (AFP)

While the rest of the world nervously eyes the impact of global warming, the calving of Greenland's glaciers -- the breaking off of ice chunks from its edge -- ...

Glaciologists unveil most precise map ever of Antarctic ice velocity

Jul 31, 2019 (SPX)

"By utilizing the full potential of interferometric phase signals from satellite synthetic-aperture radars, we have achieved a quantum leap in the description o...

Heatwave threatens to accelerate ice melt in Greenland

Jul 27, 2019 (AFP)

After breaking records over Europe, the heatwave has swept over Scandinavia and is predicted to move towards Greenland, according to the World Meteorological Or...

Russia sets speed record with Arctic trip to China

Jul 25, 2019 (AFP)

The tanker named Vladimir Rusanov made the trip from Novatek's privately-owned Yamal LNG project in the European Arctic to Tianjin, "setting a new record" for a...

West Antarctic ice collapse may be prevented by snowing ocean water onto it

Jul 22, 2019 (SPX)

"The fundamental trade-off is whether we as humanity want to sacrifice Antarctica to safe the currently inhabited coastal regions and the cultural heritage that...

Long-term measurements document sea level rise in the Arctic

Jul 22, 2019 (SPX)

"The Arctic is a hotspot of climate change," explains Prof. Florian Seitz of the German Geodetic Research Institute at the Technical University of Munich (TUM)....

Snow cannons could stabilize West Antarctic ice sheet

Jul 18, 2019 (UPI)

In a paper published this week in the journal Science Advances, scientists in Germany and the United States considered a bold plan to pump millions of gallons o...

Giant iceberg on the move in Antarctica

Jul 11, 2019 (UPI)

Glacier expert Adrian Luckman, a geography professor at Swansea University in Wales, published an animation of the glacier's movements on his blog. "This animat...

Climate change threatens Greenland's archeological sites: study

Jul 11, 2019 (AFP)

There are more than 180,000 archaeological sites across the Arctic, some dating back thousands of years, and previously these were protected by the characterist...

Antarctic ice instability could yield rapid melting, dramatic sea level rise

Jul 09, 2019 (UPI)

Fluctuations in climate and a lack of data make modeling the future of the Antarctic ice shelf especially difficult. But new analysis of the instability embedde...

Iceland glacier national park named World Heritage site

Jul 05, 2019 (AFP)

Shaped by volcanoes and surrounded by lava fields, the park is also home to the largest glacier in Europe, after which it is named. The protected area of some 1...

Alaska heat wave shatters temperature record in largest city Anchorage

Jul 05, 2019 (AFP)

"At 5pm this afternoon, Anchorage International Airport officially hit 90 degrees for the first time on record," tweeted the National Weather Service (NWS) late...

Antarctic sea ice in dizzying decline since 2014: study

Jul 02, 2019 (AFP)

Scientists already knew Antarctica was thawing at an increasing rate, like the Arctic, because of accelerating discharge from glaciers, the rivers of ice that p...

Study details the effects of water temperature on glacier calving

Jul 01, 2019 (UPI)

The new findings -- published this week in the journal Scientific Reports -- offered glaciologists fresh insights into the relationship between water temperatur...

Scientists find 56 lakes under the Greenland Ice Sheet

Jun 26, 2019 (UPI)

Projecting ice loss in Greenland remains difficult, but studies suggest the island's glaciers are melting more rapidly than they were a few decades ago. As Gree...

Greenland ice loss projections are clouded by clouds

Jun 24, 2019 (UPI)

Currently, models of Greenland's melting ice sheet put the greatest emphasis on the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions. But new research, published this week i...