ICE WORLD - INDO DAILY

Mar 15, 2019 (SPX)

A NASA-funded technology aims to fix that. With new software, scientists will be able to easily access weather data in the Arctic, allowing them to better under...

Receding Chilean glacier a sign of accelerating climate change

Mar 15, 2019 (AFP)

The Grey Glacier is one of the main sights in the Torres del Paine national park popular with tourists and hikers. A giant iceberg the size of six football pitc...

Tectonics in the tropics trigger Earth's ice ages

Mar 15, 2019 (SPX)

Now scientists at MIT, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the University of California at Berkeley have identified the likely trigger for these ...

REMOVED Winter was frigid because the polar vortex got 'drunk'

Mar 15, 2019 (SPX)

The story was titled "Winter was frigid because the polar vortex got 'drunk.'" The article tried to use a metaphor to explain the science behind the expansion o...

NASA studies Greenland to determine how much of it is melting

Mar 14, 2019 (UPI)

The latest research campaign is part of NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland program. Since 2016, researchers have conducted two or three field campaigns per year. S...

Entrepreneurs brave Baltic ice in bid for cash

Mar 14, 2019 (AFP)

On a blisteringly cold night in northern Finland, hopeful entrepreneurs plunge into a hole in the Baltic sea ice in a bid to win over a panel of investors. The ...

It's raining on the Greenland ice - in the winter

Mar 11, 2019 (SPX)

Greenland has been losing ice in recent decades due to progressive warming. Since about 1990, average temperatures over the ice sheet have increased by as much ...

What triggered the 100,000-year Ice Age cycle?

Mar 11, 2019 (SPX)

These cycles are generally thought to have largely kept pace with our wobbling planet's elliptical path around the sun. Variation in incoming solar radiation du...

New satellite keeps close watch on Antarctic ice loss

Mar 11, 2019 (SPX)

From its orbit 815 km above the Earth, the Sentinel-3 satellite was able to detect the height of the ice surface to within tens of centimetres , tests carried o...

Slovakia's ice church draws visitors closer to heavens

Mar 11, 2019 (AFP)

Instead of wood or bricks and mortar, this chilly house of worship perched among the snowy peaks of Slovakia's High Tatra Mountains has been built from massive ...

Atmospheric scientists reveal the effect of sea-ice loss on Arctic warming

Mar 11, 2019 (SPX)

Scientists from State University of New York, Albany and Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences found the answers by means of historical ...

Migrating snowline plays outsized role in setting pace of Greenland ice melt

Mar 07, 2019 (SPX)

The research, published in the journal Science Advances, used satellite imagery to track the movement of the ice sheet's snowline - the elevation above which th...

Climate change forces Arctic animals to shift feeding habits: study

Mar 06, 2019 (AFP)

Researchers harnessed datasets spanning two decades to examine how two species of Arctic wildlife -- beluga whales, also known as white whales, and ringed seals...

Human 'footprint' on Antarctica measured for first time

Mar 06, 2019 (SPX)

The lead author of the study published in the journal Nature Sustainability, IMAS PhD student Shaun Brooks, said measuring the area impacted by humans was impor...

Thousands of tiny quakes shake Antarctic ice at night

Mar 06, 2019 (SPX)

In a recent study, UChicago scientists placed seismometers on the McMurdo Ice Shelf and recorded hundreds of thousands of tiny "ice quakes" that appear to be ca...

Russia's Arctic plans add to polar bears' climate woes

Mar 05, 2019 (AFP)

For as Moscow steps up its activity in the warming Arctic, conflict with the rare species is likely to increase. More than 50 bears approached Belyushya Guba, a...

Ice-free Arctic summers could happen on earlier side of predictions

Feb 28, 2019 (SPX)

Computer models predict climate change will cause the Arctic to be nearly free of sea ice during the summer by the middle of this century, unless human greenhou...

The ancient people in the high-latitude Arctic had well-developed trade

Feb 27, 2019 (SPX)

The Arctic is the coldest part of our planet, where there are no favorable conditions for life. The Arctic regions of the Earth are hardly populated by humans, ...

Antarctic flies protect fragile eggs with 'antifreeze'

Feb 27, 2019 (SPX)

But for wingless flies, that's also the bad thing about Antarctic summers. The flies and their eggs must contend with an unpredictable pattern of alternating mi...

Going greener: Finland's new gas-fuelled icebreaker

Feb 22, 2019 (AFP)

In the freezing darkness of a February morning, the immense Polaris, which at 10,000 tonnes weighs more than the Eiffel Tower, ploughs effortlessly through the ...