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Hopes dashed for giant new Antarctic marine sanctuary
Oct 28, 2017 (AFP)
Expectations were high ahead of the annual meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) -- a treaty tasked with ...
Ice stream retreats under a cold climate
Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)
A research article, published in Nature Communications, shows that a warmer ocean surface in central-eastern Baffin Bay triggered the ice retreat during this co...
'Scars' left by icebergs record West Antarctic ice retreat
Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers from the University of Cambridge, the British Antarctic Survey and Stockholm University imaged the seafloor of Pine Island Bay, in West Antarctica. ...
Groundwater and tundra fires may work together to thaw permafrost
Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)
The new study reveals that, after wildfire burns off a portion of organic rich soil that normally insulates permafrost, summer warmth penetrates deeper into the...
New crew and new research in Antarctica
Oct 24, 2017 (ESA)
One thing is for sure: it is cold, dropping below -80C, and the high altitude offers reduced oxygen in the air. Each year, ESA sponsors a research medical docto...
Study links rapid ice sheet melting with distant volcanic eruptions
Oct 24, 2017 (UPI)
Researchers surveyed evidence of melting among ice cores and meltwater deposits, and compared their findings to a timeline of ancient volcanic eruptions between...
Secrets of hidden ice canyons revealed
Oct 24, 2017 (ESA)
Antarctica is surrounded by ice shelves, which are thick bands of ice that extend from the ice sheet and float on the coastal waters. They play an important rol...
Scientists surprised to find jellyfish under Arctic sea ice
Oct 24, 2017 (UPI)
Until now, scientists assumed jellyfish only survived the winter in the form of polyps, small masses that bind to rocks and release tiny baby jellyfish each spr...
Mountain glaciers shrinking across the West
Oct 23, 2017 (SPX)
We now have a third, much more powerful tool. While he was a doctoral student in University of Washington's Department of Earth and Space Sciences, David Shean ...
Drive for giant new marine sanctuary in Antarctica
Oct 16, 2017 (AFP)
The fate of the plan to shield critical areas of ocean around the frozen continent rests with the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Res...
The melting ice makes the sea around Greenland less saline
Oct 16, 2017 (SPX)
Today, researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark present a 13-year long time series of data in the esteemed journal Nature, Scientific Reports, which shows ...
Thousands of penguin chicks starve in Antarctica
Oct 13, 2017 (AFP)
French scientists, supported by WWF, have been studying a colony of 18,000 pairs of Adelie penguins in East Antarctica since 2010 and discovered only two chicks...
As ice sheet melts, Greenland's fjords become less salty
Oct 13, 2017 (UPI)
Researchers with Denmark's Aarhus University detailed the impact of melting ice on Greenland's coastal waters in a new paper published this week in the journal ...
Formation of coal almost turned our planet into a snowball
Oct 10, 2017 (SPX)
When trees in vast forests died during a time called the Carboniferous and the Permian, the carbon dioxide (CO2) they took up from the atmosphere while growing ...
In warmer climates, Greenlandic deltas have grown
Oct 06, 2017 (SPX)
The team of researchers included Mette Bendixen and Lars L. Iversen from the University of Copenhagen, University of Colorado Boulder postdoctoral researcher Ka...
Return of the Weddell polynya supports Kiel climate model
Oct 03, 2017 (SPX)
Scientists from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel are closely monitoring the developments. "For us this ice-free area is an important new data...
Shipping risks rise as Antarctic ice hits record low
Sep 27, 2017 (AFP)
Scientists from around the world are meeting in the Tasmanian capital Hobart this week to discuss sea ice fluctuations and improved navigation and forecasting, ...
Winter cold extremes linked to high-altitude polar vortex weakening
Sep 25, 2017 (SPX)
It is the first to show that changes in winds high up in the stratosphere substantially contributed to the observed winter cooling trend in northern Eurasia. Wh...
Wind, Warm Water Revved Up Melting Antarctic Glaciers
Sep 21, 2017 (JPL)
The water was only 1 to 2 degrees Fahrenheit (0.5 to 1 degree Celsius) warmer than usual water temperatures in the area, but it increased the glaciers' flow spe...
Ice age may have clipped bird migration
Sep 21, 2017 (SPX)
Published Sept. 20 in the journal Science Advances, the study challenges a long-held presumption that birds merely shortened their migratory flights when glacie...
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