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Diving robots find Antarctic winter seas exhale surprising amounts of CO2
Aug 16, 2018 (SPX)
A new study from the University of Washington, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Princeton University and several other oceanographic institutions u...
Glacial lake bursts in western China
Aug 15, 2018 (AFP)
The lake burst its banks on Friday, sending some 35 million cubic metres of water rushing through central Xinjiang province, according to China's official Xinhu...
Ice sheets of the last ice age seeded the ocean with silica
Aug 14, 2018 (SPX)
Silica is needed by a group of marine algae (the microscopic plants of the oceans) called diatoms, who use it to build their glassy cell walls (known as frustul...
Scientists trace atmospheric rise in CO2 during deglaciation to deep Pacific Ocean
Aug 14, 2018 (SPX)
But researchers haven't been able to document just how the carbon made it out of the ocean and into the atmosphere. It has remained one of the most important my...
NASA scientist reveals details of icy Greenland's heated geologic past
Aug 08, 2018 (SPX)
Dr. Yasmina M. Martos, a planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, mined publicly available magnetic field, gravity and ...
The Arctic Carbon Cycle is Speeding Up
Aug 06, 2018 (JPL)
A new NASA-led study using data from the Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) shows that carbon in Alaska's North Slope tundra ecosystems spends about...
Carbon 'leak' may have warmed the planet for 11,000 years, encouraging human civilization
Aug 02, 2018 (SPX)
The warmth of that period was stabilized by a gradual rise in global carbon dioxide levels, so understanding the reason for that rise is of great interest, said...
Concern for climate as Sweden's highest peak melts away
Aug 02, 2018 (AFP)
"It's quite scary," Gunhild Ninis Rosqvist, a Stockholm University geography professor who has been measuring the glacier for many years as part of climate chan...
Montane pine forests reached the northeastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula 50,000 years ago
Aug 01, 2018 (SPX)
Carbon analysis of the Cova Gran de Santa Linya, in Lleida's Pre-Pyrenees region, indicates that there were abundant Scots pine forests which were used as the m...
Arctic heat melts away Sweden's highest peak
Aug 01, 2018 (AFP)
"I've never seen this much melted snow on the southern peak as I did this summer," Gunhild Ninis Rosqvist, a Stockholm University geography professor, said in a...
Glaciers in East Antarctica also 'imperiled' by climate change, UCI researchers find
Jul 30, 2018 (SPX)
In a paper published this week in the American Geophysical Union journal Geophysical Research Letters, the glaciologists estimate that between April 2002 and Se...
Great Barrier Reef reveals rapid changes of ancient glaciers
Jul 30, 2018 (SPX)
The research team, led by Professor Yusuke Yokoyama of the University of Tokyo, now divides the Last Glacial Maximum into two distinct periods: + period A - 30,...
Research shows how the Little Ice Age affected South American climate
Jul 30, 2018 (SPX)
Based on an analysis of speleothems (cave formations) in the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso do Sul and Goias, the study revealed that in the seventeenth and ei...
Deglacial changes in western Atlantic Ocean circulation
Jul 30, 2018 (SPX)
The new integrated dataset, published today in the journal Nature Communications, provides new insights into the interactions of melting ice, ocean circulation ...
World's biggest king penguin colony shrinks 90 percent
Jul 30, 2018 (AFP)
The last time scientists set foot on France's remote Ile aux Cochons -- roughly half way between the tip of Africa and Antarctica -- the island was blanketed by...
New study puts a figure on sea-level rise following Antarctic ice shelves' collapse
Jul 23, 2018 (SPX)
Recent, rapid warming in the Antarctic Peninsula is a threat to ice shelves in the region, with Larsen C and George VI considered to have the highest risk of co...
Kelp's record journey exposes Antarctic ecosystems to change
Jul 19, 2018 (SPX)
New research reported in Nature Climate Change by an international, multidisciplinary team of scientists reveals just how important that finding was. The team d...
Scientists calculate sea level rise if Antarctic ice shelves collapse
Jul 19, 2018 (UPI)
Much attention has been paid to the Larsen C ice shelf, as its breakdown has been most visible -- and well documented. But the latest research, published this w...
Potential for Antarctica to become plastics dumping ground and home for new species
Jul 19, 2018 (SPX)
The research reported in Nature Climate Change by an international, multidisciplinary team of scientists including Professor Jon Waters from the University of O...
Scientists capture breaking of glacier in Greenland
Jul 18, 2018 (SPX)
The resulting iceberg, broken off from Greenland's Helheim Glacier, would stretch from lower Manhattan up to Midtown in New York City. "Global sea-level rise is...
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