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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...
Greenland ice melted much faster than average in May heatwave: scientists
Jun 11, 2025 (AFP)
The Arctic region is on the frontline of global warming, heating up four times faster than the rest of the planet since 1979, according to a 2022 study in scien...
Emperor penguin populations declining faster than expected
Jun 10, 2025 (AFP)
Scientists monitoring the world's largest penguin species used satellites to assess sixteen colonies in the Antarctic Peninsula, Weddell Sea and Bellingshausen ...
New research reveals wind jets fueling Thwaites Glacier's melt
Jun 02, 2025 (SPX)
Lead author Sai Prabala Swetha CHITTELLA explained, "We wanted to understand how often these LLJs happen and what causes them. Understanding these strong winds ...
Swiss glacier collapse offers global warning of wider impact
May 31, 2025 (AFP)
Footage of the May 28 collapse showed a huge cloud of ice and rubble hurtling down the mountainside, into the hamlet of Blatten. Ali Neumann, disaster risk redu...
How Switzerland's Birch glacier collapsed
May 30, 2025 (AFP)
Experts knew days ahead of Wednesday's landslide that the glacier was likely to suffer a catastrophic failure. But the reasons why date back much further. There...
Switzerland monitoring for flood risk after huge glacier collapse
May 29, 2025 (AFP)
On Wednesday the Birch glacier in Switzerland's southern Wallis region collapsed, sending tons of rock, ice and scree hurtling down the mountain slope and into ...
One missing as village largely destroyed in Swiss glacier collapse
May 28, 2025 (AFP)
The village in the Lotschental valley, home to 300 people, had been evacuated last week due to the impending danger. The huge collapse on the Birch Glacier in S...
Ice age species evolved in stages across changing climates
May 26, 2025 (SPX)
The interdisciplinary team of palaeontologists and palaeogeneticists analyzed ancient DNA and fossil data to trace changes in biodiversity across the Northern H...
Growing Arctic military presence worries Finland's reindeer herders
May 24, 2025 (AFP)
"Military activity has increased massively here since Finland joined NATO," reindeer herder Kyosti Uutela said on a tour in Rovajarvi, the largest artillery pra...
The surprising climate power of penguin poo
May 22, 2025 (AFP)
Published Thursday in Communications Earth & Environment, the research shows that ammonia wafting off penguin guano seeds extra cloud cover above coastal Antarc...
Biodiversity boom in Antarctic soils driven by microbial cooperation
May 22, 2025 (SPX)
Led by Dr Dirk Wagner from the GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences and the University of Potsdam, the research uncovered thousands of bacterial and eukaryotic ...
NATO to open new air command in Norway's far north
May 20, 2025 (AFP)
The announcement from the Norwegian government comes as neighbouring Russia is seeking to assert its power in the Arctic by modernising old bases and establishi...
Mountain Glaciers Face Centuries-Long Recovery Even if Warming Reversed
May 20, 2025 (SPX)
Published in Nature Climate Change, the study found that if global temperatures temporarily exceed 1.5C by up to 3C before stabilizing, glaciers could lose up t...
Krypton-81 Dating Achieved for Antarctic Ice by USTC Researchers
May 19, 2025 (SPX)
Antarctic and Greenland ice cores serve as critical archives of Earth's climatic history, often extending several kilometers beneath the surface. However, preci...
The Antarctic Subglacial Water Puzzle - Insights into Ice Melt Dynamics
May 14, 2025 (SPX)
The team established a temporary research station at this remote site, complete with an airstrip and tent accommodation for 26 people, taking advantage of the A...
Nepal holds tribute for disappearing glacier
May 12, 2025 (AFP)
The Yala glacier, located between 5,170 and 5,750 metres above sea level, is in the Langtang Valley in northern Nepal. Since 1974, the glacier has shrunk in are...
Glacier in West Antarctica Engages in Rapid Ice Piracy
May 12, 2025 (SPX)
Until now, it was believed that such shifts in ice flow occurred over centuries or even millennia. However, high-resolution satellite imagery reveals that one g...
Thawing permafrost dots Siberia with rash of mounds
Apr 30, 2025 (AFP)
A growing number of little mounds are appearing across the region of Yakutia in the Russian Far East. Known as "bylars" in the Yakut language, the tiny hillocks...
Ice cores from tropics challenge Holocene temperature models
Apr 30, 2025 (SPX)
The study, conducted by researchers at The Ohio State University and published in *Communications Earth and Environment*, compares natural proxy records from ic...
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