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Arctic shrews, parasites indicate climate change effect on ecosystems
Jan 13, 2017 (SPX)
The shrew and its parasites - even 40-year-old preserved ones - are the new indicators of environmental change, according to a Kansas State University researche...
French satellite spots Antarctic caravan
Jan 11, 2017 (UPI)
There's no priority mail in Antarctica. Supplies must be delivered the old fashioned way, by caravan. Instead of horses and wagons, however, the supplies are lo...
Airborne thermometer to measure Arctic temperatures
Jan 11, 2017 (SPX)
Russian scientists from the National University of Science and Technology MISiS, MIPT, and Prokhorov General Physics Institute (GPI) of the Russian Academy of S...
High-tech mooring will measure beneath Antarctic ice
Jan 10, 2017 (SPX)
Earth's oceans have soaked up about a third of the carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere by humans through use of fossil fuels and other activities. That's goo...
Radar reveals meltwater's year-round life under Greenland ice
Jan 10, 2017 (SPX)
When summer temperatures rise in Greenland and the melt season begins, water pools on the surface, and sometimes disappears down holes in the ice. That water ma...
When the Arctic coast retreats, life in the shallow water areas drastically changes
Jan 06, 2017 (SPX)
The thawing and erosion of Arctic permafrost coasts has dramatically increased in the past years and the sea is now consuming more than 20 metres of land per ye...
Unlucky polar bears beset by toxins too
Jan 05, 2017 (AFP)
Polar bears just can't catch a break. Already struggling to cope with climate change, the giant Arctic carnivores also face a chemical poisoning risk 100 times ...
Scientists consider the effects of coastal erosion in the Arctic
Jan 04, 2017 (UPI)
As temperatures warm in the Arctic, costal tundra is thawing, crumbling and falling into the ocean. It's a phenomenon researchers in Germany suggest deserves gr...
Polar vortex is back, and a warmer Arctic may be to blame
Jan 03, 2017 (UPI)
Residents of Anchorage, Alaska, found themselves enjoying a stretch of relatively balmy weather in December, with temperatures at times climbing above freezing....
Detailed Greenland glacier data released
Jan 03, 2017 (JPL)
NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) mission has released preliminary data on the heights of Greenland coastal glaciers from its first airborne campaign in Mar...
Ice loss in 2016: A year in review
Dec 29, 2016 (UPI)
It was a record year for ice. The theme was scarcity. There's less ice on Earth than there has been in some time. Ice sheets are shrinking, glaciers are melting...
Satellites observe 'traffic jams' in Antarctic Ice Stream caused by tides
Dec 22, 2016 (SPX)
For the first time, researchers have closely observed how the ocean's tides can speed up or slow down the speed of glacial movement in Antarctica. The new data ...
Arctic lakes thawing earlier each year
Dec 22, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists from the University of Southampton have found Arctic lakes, covered with ice during the winter months, are melting earlier each spring. The team, who...
Scientists measure pulse of CO2 emissions during spring thaw in the Arctic
Dec 16, 2016 (SPX)
When the frozen Arctic tundra starts to thaw around June of each year, the snow melting and the ground softening, the soil may release a large pulse of greenhou...
Climate change likely caused deadly 2016 avalanche in Tibet
Dec 13, 2016 (SPX)
With a deadly avalanche, it appears climate change may now be affecting a once stable region of the Tibetan Plateau. That's the conclusion of an international t...
Antarctic site promises to open a new window on the cosmos
Dec 13, 2016 (SPX)
Antarctica might be one of the most inhospitable regions on the planet, but it is a mecca for astronomers. Its cold, dry air enables observations that can't be ...
Most of Greenland ice melted to bedrock in recent geologic past
Dec 13, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists have found evidence in a chunk of bedrock drilled from nearly two miles below the summit of the Greenland ice sheet that the sheet nearly disappeared...
Hottest Arctic on record triggers massive ice melt
Dec 13, 2016 (AFP)
The Arctic shattered heat records in the past year as unusually warm air triggered massive melting of ice and snow and a late fall freeze, US government scienti...
Landsat provides global view of speed of ice
Dec 13, 2016 (SPX)
Glaciers and ice sheets move in unique and sometimes surprising patterns, as evidenced by a new capability that uses satellite images to map the speed of flowin...
Global warming is melting mountain glaciers: study
Dec 12, 2016 (AFP)
Global warming is responsible for the melting of mountain glaciers around the world in the last century, scientists said Monday. Since glaciers respond slowly t...
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