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Operation IceBridge flies over Iceberg B-46
Nov 15, 2018 (SPX)
The flight over one of the fastest-retreating glaciers in Antarctica was part of IceBridge's campaign to collect measurements of Earth's changing polar regions....
Business as usual for Antarctic krill despite ocean acidification
Nov 14, 2018 (SPX)
The study's lead author, IMAS PhD student Jess Ericson, said the long-term laboratory study was the first of its kind. "Our study found that adult krill are abl...
Modest warming risks 'irreversible' ice sheet loss, study warns
Nov 12, 2018 (AFP)
The 2015 Paris Agreement limits nations to temperature rises "well below" two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels and to less t...
How much debris is lying on glaciers
Nov 12, 2018 (SPX)
A study by the scientist Dirk Scherler of the German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ and two colleagues from Switzerland - one of them employed by Google - ...
ESA's gravity-mapper reveals relics of ancient continents under Antarctic ice
Nov 08, 2018 (ESA)
A research team from Germany's Kiel University and the British Antarctic Survey published their latest GOCE-based findings this week in the journal Scientific R...
Far fewer lakes below the East Antarctic Ice Sheet than previously believed
Nov 08, 2018 (SPX)
In the course of an extensive Antarctic expedition, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) recently ...
East Antarctic Ice Sheet has fewer lakes underneath it than scientists thought
Nov 07, 2018 (UPI)
During an Antarctic expedition, a team of researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, or AWI, observed that ar...
Natural climate variability explains almost half of Arctic sea ice loss
Nov 06, 2018 (UPI)
Researchers used a variety of climate models and an analytical method known as "fingerprinting" to determine which factors best explain changes in Arctic sea ic...
A call for the cold
Nov 06, 2018 (ESA)
A truly unique experience, ESA is calling medical research doctors to spend a year on the ice conducting researching into how humans adapt to living in extreme ...
Plans for world's largest ocean sanctuary in Antarctic blocked
Nov 03, 2018 (AFP)
Member states of the organisation tasked with overseeing the sustainable exploitation of the Southern Ocean failed at an annual meeting Friday to agree over the...
Study sheds light on why a warmer world may equal a wetter Arctic
Oct 30, 2018 (SPX)
A new study looks to history for answers, examining what happened in the region during a period of warming some 8,000 years ago. The research finds evidence tha...
Ice-age climate clues unearthed
Oct 25, 2018 (SPX)
Sylvia Dee, an assistant professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences, and her colleagues have created a computational Lake Proxy System Model to tr...
Investigating glaciers in depth
Oct 25, 2018 (SPX)
As a result, we cannot accurately calculate the effects on sea levels. Dr. Johannes Furst from the Institute of Geography at Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erl...
Changes in snow coverage threatens biodiversity of Arctic nature
Oct 24, 2018 (SPX)
In a study published in the renowned scientific journal Nature Climate Change, researchers from the University of Helsinki and the Finnish Environment Institute...
UTSA creates web-based open source dashboard of North Pole
Oct 23, 2018 (SPX)
The hope is that this web-based repository will allow researchers to spend more time analyzing information rather than just collecting and processing data. "Thi...
Arctic ice sets speed limit for major ocean current
Oct 18, 2018 (SPX)
Scientists at MIT have now identified a key mechanism, which they call the "ice-ocean governor," that controls how fast the Beaufort Gyre spins and how much fre...
Life on the floor of the Arctic Ocean, with rigor and in detail
Oct 18, 2018 (SPX)
The study, led by a team including Antje Boetius of the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany, also confirmed for the first time that sp...
Arctic greening thaws permafrost, boosts runoff
Oct 18, 2018 (SPX)
"The Arctic is actively greening, and shrubs are flourishing across the tundra. As insulating snow accumulates atop tall shrubs, it boosts significant ground wa...
Climate models fail to simulate recent air-pressure changes over Greenland
Oct 17, 2018 (SPX)
This deficiency may mean regional climate predictions for the UK and parts of Europe could be inaccurate, according to new research published. Researchers compa...
Arctic sea ice decline driving ocean phytoplankton farther north
Oct 17, 2018 (SPX)
A new study based on satellite imagery of ocean color reveals phytoplankton spring blooms in the Arctic Ocean, which were previously nonexistent, are expanding ...
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