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Aug 29, 2016 (SPX)

Can the woolly mammoth be brought back from the dead? Scientists say it's only a matter of time. In fact this year, the International Union for Conservation of ...

By mid-century, more Antarctic snowfall may help offset sea-level rise

Aug 29, 2016 (SPX)

When Antarctica's air temperature rises, moisture in the atmosphere increases. That should mean more snowfall on the frozen continent. So why hasn't that trend ...

Giant cruise ship heads to Arctic on pioneering journey

Aug 24, 2016 (AFP)

It is a voyage explorers only dreamed of not so long ago. But thanks to climate change, a luxury cruise ship has undertaken a pioneering journey that will see i...

Study measures methane release from Arctic permafrost

Aug 23, 2016 (SPX)

A University of Alaska Fairbanks-led research project has provided the first modern evidence of a landscape-level permafrost carbon feedback, in which thawing p...

Antarctica's past shows region's vulnerability to climate change

Aug 23, 2016 (SPX)

Fresh understanding of West Antarctica has revealed how the region's ice sheet could become unstable in a warming world. Scientists studying the region's landsc...

NASA monitors the 'new normal' of sea ice

Aug 22, 2016 (SPX)

This year's melt season in the Arctic Ocean and surrounding seas started with a bang, with a record low maximum extent in March and relatively rapid ice loss th...

New Antarctic ice discovery aids future climate predictions

Aug 17, 2016 (SPX)

A team of British climate scientists comparing today's environment with the warm period before the last ice age has discovered a 65% reduction of Antarctic sea ...

Sea ice strongly linked to climate change in past 90,000 years

Aug 17, 2016 (SPX)

"The Arctic sea ice responded very rapidly to past climate changes. During the coldest periods of the past 90,000 years the sea ice edge spread relatively quick...

Specialized life forms abound at Arctic methane seeps

Aug 15, 2016 (SPX)

Cold seeps are places where hydrocarbons, mostly methane, emanate from the sea floor. Unlike the hydrothermal vents, the fluids and bubbles are no hotter than t...

Syracuse University researchers confirm marine animals live longer at high latitudes

Aug 15, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers in the Department of Earth Sciences have shown that high-latitude bivalves live longer and grow slower than those in the tropics. Their findings are...

Arctic methane seeps host abundance of specialized life forms

Aug 10, 2016 (UPI)

A new study offers a glimpse of an unusual marine community -- a niche ecosystem surrounding Arctic cold seeps. Researchers with CAGE, the Centre for Arctic Gas...

NASA Maps Thawed Areas Under Greenland Ice Sheet

Aug 08, 2016 (JPL)

NASA researchers have helped produce the first map showing what parts of the bottom of the massive Greenland Ice Sheet are thawed - key information in better pr...

Antarctic sea ice may be a source of mercury in southern ocean fish and birds

Aug 04, 2016 (SPX)

New research has found methylmercury - a potent neurotoxin - in sea ice in the Southern Ocean. Published in the journal Nature Microbiology, the results are the...

Lack of water likely caused extinction of isolated Alaska mammoths

Aug 04, 2016 (SPX)

A remnant population of woolly mammoths on a remote Alaska island was likely pushed to extinction by rising sea levels and a lack of access to fresh water, acco...

St. Paul Island mammoths most accurately dated 'prehistoric' extinction ever

Aug 04, 2016 (SPX)

While the Minoan culture on Crete was just beginning, woolly mammoths were disappearing from St. Paul Island, Alaska, according to an international team of scie...

Alaskan woolly mammoths died of thirst: study

Aug 02, 2016 (AFP)

One of the world's last surviving groups of woolly mammoths likely died of thirst as the salty seas rose around these iconic Ice Age creatures 5,600 years ago, ...

A recent pause in Antarctic Peninsula warming

Jul 26, 2016 (SPX)

The rapid warming of the Antarctic Peninsula, which occurred from the early-1950s to the late 1990s, has paused. Stabilisation of the ozone hole along with natu...

How meltwater from the ice sheets disturbed the climate 10,000 years ago

Jul 22, 2016 (SPX)

Today, a negative correlation is observed in the amount of rainfall in north-western Africa and north-western Europe. If a humid winter climate prevails in nort...

Warming Arctic could disrupt migration patterns of millions of birds

Jul 20, 2016 (UPI)

Millions of birds pass through the Arctic on their annual migration routes. They arrive north to breed, expecting cool summer weather. The effects of global war...

More Chinese vessels to sail the Arctic: shipping firm

Jul 18, 2016 (AFP)

Chinese shipping giant COSCO plans to send three cargo ships through the Arctic Ocean this summer, according to a statement, as the company expands services on ...