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Scientists find missing piece in glacier melt predictions

Oct 17, 2018 (SPX)

The group made the discovery looking at data intended to reveal the changing shape of Store Glacier in West Greenland. But graduate student Alexander Kendrick f...

Operation IceBridge, ICESat-2 join forces to survey Antarctica

Oct 17, 2018 (SPX)

After successfully flying over the Bailey Ice Stream and Slessor Glacier in East Antarctica on Oct. 10, IceBridge will spend the next five weeks measuring chang...

Antarctic ice shelf 'sings' as winds whip across its surface

Oct 17, 2018 (SPX)

The Ross Ice Shelf is Antarctica's largest ice shelf, a Texas-sized plate of glacial ice fed from the icy continent's interior that floats atop the Southern Oce...

'Year of extremes' for shrinking Swiss glaciers in 2018: study

Oct 16, 2018 (AFP)

This year's record-breaking temperatures have greatly contributed to the loss of "a fifth of (the glaciers') volume over the past decade", according to the annu...

Polar bears gorged on whales to survive past warm periods

Oct 15, 2018 (SPX)

A new study led by the University of Washington found that although dead whales are still valuable sources of fat and protein for some polar bears, this resourc...

Polar jet circulation changes bring Sahara dust to Arctic, increasing temperatures, melting ice

Oct 12, 2018 (SPX)

Their findings highlight the role that the polar jet and associated atmospheric circulation plays in the transport of mineral dust from the Sahara desert to the...

With Thick Ice Gone, Arctic Sea Ice Changes More Slowly

Oct 12, 2018 (JPL)

Kwok's research, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, combined decades of declassified U.S. Navy submarine measurements with more recent dat...

Rapid, widespread changes may be coming to Antarctica's Dry Valleys, study finds

Oct 10, 2018 (SPX)

Led by Andrew Fountain, a geology professor in PSU's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, a team of researchers used an airborne laser scanner, or lidar, to me...

Finding open water in Greenland's icy seas

Oct 09, 2018 (JPL)

Since 2016, OMG has been collecting measurements around the huge island on three separate trips a year. Each spring, a research aircraft measures the height of ...

More persistent weather patterns in US linked to Arctic warming

Oct 04, 2018 (SPX)

Persistent weather conditions can lead to weather extremes such as drought, heat waves, prolonged cold and storms that can cost millions of dollars in damage an...

Taller species are taking over in a warming Arctic

Oct 04, 2018 (SPX)

But new, taller plant species have been slowly taking over this chilly neighbourhood, report an international group of nearly 130 biologists led by scientists f...

Small ice-free oasis helped Arctic marine life survive last ice age

Oct 01, 2018 (UPI)

"When we were looking for evidence of biological life in sediments at the bottom of the ocean, we found that between the sea ice covered oceans, and the ice she...

Danish shipping firm tests Russian Arctic route

Sep 27, 2018 (AFP)

Maersk's new ice class container vessel, Venta Maersk, embarked on a trial journey from the Russian far eastern port of Vladivostok in late August, completing t...

Retracing Antarctica's glacial past

Sep 26, 2018 (SPX)

As the planet warmed, the ice sheets melted and contracted, and sea level began to rise. LSU Department of Geology and Geophysics Associate Professor Phil Bart ...

Mineral weathering from thawing permafrost can release substantial CO2

Sep 24, 2018 (SPX)

Mineral weathering occurs when minerals previously locked-up in permafrost are exposed, and broken down into their chemical components by the sulfuric or carbon...

More ships and more clouds mean cooling in the Arctic

Sep 21, 2018 (SPX)

UConn geographer Scott Stephenson and colleagues say the growth of trans-Arctic shipping and the increase in emissions that will accompany it may offset some of...

Sustained levels of moderate warming could melt the East Antarctic Ice Sheet

Sep 21, 2018 (SPX)

The international research team, led by Dr David Wilson of Imperial College London, used evidence from a previous time in Earth's history, the late Pleistocene,...

Study links natural climate oscillations in north Atlantic to Greenland ice sheet melt

Sep 21, 2018 (SPX)

Both patterns can have a major impact on regional climate. The NAO, which is measured as the atmospheric pressure difference between the Azores and Iceland, can...

Unprecedented ice loss in Russian ice cap

Sep 21, 2018 (SPX)

"In a warming climate, glacier acceleration is becoming more and more common, but the rate of ice loss at Vavilov is extreme and unexpected," said Mike Willis, ...

Glacial engineering could limit sea-level rise, if we get our emissions under control

Sep 21, 2018 (SPX)

"Doing geoengineering means often considering the unthinkable," says Moore, a scientist at Beijing Normal University, China, and a professor of climate change a...