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May 03, 2018 (SPX)

Utrecht glacier researcher Peter Kuipers Munneke discovered that fact by combining the results of weather stations and satellite images. His findings were publi...

Are emperor penguins eating enough?

May 03, 2018 (SPX)

Researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have developed a way to help determine the foraging success of Emperor penguins by using time-lap...

Mission to study how melting polar ice affects regional sea levels

May 03, 2018 (JPL)

How do we know? Scientists first observed this ocean pattern using data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite mission, which end...

UK, US launch biggest-ever study of Antarctic glacier

Apr 30, 2018 (AFP)

Teams from Britain's Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the US National Science Foundation (NSF) will visit the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica...

Russian Arctic glacier loss doubles as temps warm

Apr 26, 2018 (SPX)

The research focused on Franz Josef Land, a glaciated Russian archipelago in the Kara and Barents seas - among the northernmost and most remote parcels of land ...

AWI researchers measure a record concentration of microplastic in Arctic sea ice

Apr 25, 2018 (SPX)

Further, the different types of plastic showed a unique footprint in the ice allowing the researchers to trace them back to possible sources. This involves the ...

Independence dilemma for Greenland voters

Apr 24, 2018 (AFP)

Rich in natural resources, Greenland gained autonomy from Denmark in 1979 and was granted self-rule in 2009, although Copenhagen retains control of foreign and ...

Shift in ocean circulation triggered the end of the last ice age

Apr 24, 2018 (UPI)

According to new research by scientists at the University of St. Andrews, the altered circulation released large amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere, warming Ear...

Study reveals new Antarctic process contributing to sea level rise and climate change

Apr 19, 2018 (SPX)

Led by IMAS PhD student Alessandro Silvano and published in the journal Science Advances, the research found that glacial meltwater makes the ocean's surface la...

Rising temps enabled peatland formation at end of last ice age

Apr 16, 2018 (UPI)

Researchers began by designing a computer model to simulate local climate patterns during the last 26,000 years. The last ice age reached its glacial maximum be...

Snowfall patterns may provide clues to Greenland Ice Sheet

Apr 16, 2018 (SPX)

To better understand and anticipate changes in sea level rise, scientists have sought to quantify how much snow falls on the ice sheet in any given year, and wh...

Scientists discover first subglacial lakes in Canadian Arctic

Apr 16, 2018 (SPX)

"We weren't looking for subglacial lakes. The ice is frozen to the ground underneath that part of the Devon Ice Cap, so we didn't expect to find liquid water," ...

Melting of Arctic mountain glaciers unprecedented in the past 400 years

Apr 11, 2018 (SPX)

New ice cores taken from the summit of Mt. Hunter in Denali National Park show summers there are least 1.2-2 degrees Celsius (2.2-3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer...

New technique more accurately reflects ponds on Arctic sea ice

Apr 10, 2018 (SPX)

The study, published April 4 in Physical Review Letters by researchers with UChicago and MIT, should help climate scientists improve models of climate change an...

Wind, sea ice patterns point to climate change in western Arctic

Apr 09, 2018 (SPX)

Thanks to data collected by buoys dropped from aircraft onto the Arctic Ocean's sea ice, Moore and colleagues at the University of Washington, where he spent th...

Antarctica has experienced increased snowfall over the last 200 years

Apr 09, 2018 (UPI)

Scientists with the British Antarctic Survey determined the southern continent accumulated 272 gigatons of water -- in the form of snow -- over the last 200 yea...

Algae, impurities darken Greenland ice sheet and intensify melting

Apr 06, 2018 (SPX)

Some previous theories have attributed this darkening to water on top of the ice sheet - often seen as strikingly sapphire blue ponds, rivers and lakes. But a n...

NASA Scientist Collects Bits of the Solar System from an Antarctic Glacier

Apr 06, 2018 (SPX)

Most of the time, however, there is a steady howl of bitter cold wind flowing down from the East Antarctic ice plateau. With a summer temperature hovering aroun...

Celestial sleuth unravels Ansel Adams' Alaska shoot

Apr 05, 2018 (SPX)

Adams considered Denali and Wonder Lake significant enough to select it as print number one in his limited edition Portfolio One, published in 1948. Despite tak...

West Greenland Ice Sheet melting at the fastest rate in centuries

Apr 03, 2018 (SPX)

While natural patterns of certain atmospheric and ocean conditions are already known to influence Greenland melt, the study highlights the importance of a long-...