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Spring is springing earlier in polar regions than across the rest of earth
Mar 05, 2018 (SPX)
The study, published in Nature's online journal Scientific Reports, found that for every 10 degrees north from the equator you move, spring arrives about four d...
Antarctic sea ice shrinks for second-straight year
Mar 02, 2018 (AFP)
The report came as scientists said earlier this week that the Arctic region was seeing record high temperatures, with sea ice covering the smallest area in wint...
1.5 million penguins discovered on remote Antarctic islands
Mar 02, 2018 (AFP)
The first bird census of the Danger Islands unearthed over 750,000 Adelie breeding pairs, more than the rest of the area combined, the team reported in the jour...
Antarctica: a laboratory for climate change
Mar 01, 2018 (AFP)
Now, the rocky landscape is visible to the naked eye, in a region that is both a victim of and a laboratory for climate change. "I had the opportunity to come h...
King penguins may be on the move very soon
Mar 01, 2018 (SPX)
King penguins are in fact picky animals: in order to form a colony where they can mate, lay eggs and rear chicks over a year, they need tolerable temperature al...
Icy Europe, balmy North Pole: the world upside down
Feb 27, 2018 (AFP)
The reversal has been dramatic. A Siberian cold front has spread sub-zero temperatures across Europe, carpeting southern cities and palm-lined Mediterranean bea...
Cruel climate dilemma for King penguins: feed or breed
Feb 26, 2018 (AFP)
As climate change drives away the fish and squid upon which the flightless creatures depend, the penguins must swim further afield to find sustenance for their ...
Scientists set off to explore new Antarctic ecosystem
Feb 21, 2018 (AFP)
The BAS said that an iceberg known as A68 broke off from the Larsen Ice Shelf in July 2017, revealing a section of seabed measuring 5,818 square kilometres (2,2...
New Study Brings Antarctic Ice Loss Into Sharper Focus
Feb 21, 2018 (JPL)
The computer-vision technique crunched data from hundreds of thousands of NASA-U.S. Geological Survey Landsat satellite images to produce a high-precision pictu...
NASA's longest running survey of ice shattered records in 2017
Feb 15, 2018 (SPX)
"A big highlight for 2017 is how we increased our reach with our new bases of operations and additional campaigns," said Nathan Kurtz, IceBridge's project scien...
Polar vortex defies climate change in the Southeast
Feb 15, 2018 (SPX)
Why did gas hydrates melt at the end of the last ice age?
Feb 13, 2018 (SPX)
A team of researchers from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel together with colleagues from Bergen, Oslo and Tromso (Norway), have now discover...
Scientists find massive reserves of mercury hidden in permafrost
Feb 06, 2018 (SPX)
In a new study, scientists measured mercury concentrations in permafrost cores from Alaska and estimated how much mercury has been trapped in permafrost north o...
North American ice sheet decay decreased climate variability in Southern Hemisphere
Feb 06, 2018 (SPX)
The new study - published in the journal Nature and co-authored by researchers at the University of Bristol, University of Washington and UC Berkeley - suggests...
Algae under Arctic sea ice blooms in near-darkness
Feb 06, 2018 (UPI)
The findings, published this week in the Journal of Geophysical Research, suggest algae begins blooming much earlier in the year than previously thought. Scient...
Arctic ponds potentially a major source of carbon emissions
Feb 05, 2018 (SPX)
"These ponds in the High Arctic seem to be hotspots for DOC degradation," says Myrna Simpson, Professor of Environmental Science at U of T Scarborough and co-au...
Arctic lakes are emitting young carbon
Feb 01, 2018 (UPI)
Scientists at the University of California, Irvine used carbon-14 dating methods to identify the age of carbon molecules escaping lakes in northern Alaska. Rese...
Polar bears can't catch enough seals to stay fed: study
Feb 01, 2018 (AFP)
The report in the journal Science tracked nine female polar bears in the Arctic's Beaufort Sea during the spring, which is usually prime feeding season. They fo...
Heat loss from the Earth triggers ice sheet slide towards the sea
Jan 29, 2018 (SPX)
In the esteemed journal Scientific Reports, researchers from the Arctic Research Centre, Aarhus University, and the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources pre...
China pushes 'Polar Silk Road' into Arctic
Jan 26, 2018 (AFP)
The Arctic is geographically far from China's borders but with large oil and gas deposits and potential shipping lanes has become more strategically important f...
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