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July 26, 2024
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July 25, 2024 — A new study finds disproportionate effects of temperature shifts on an icy glacier ...
July 24, 2024 — New research underscores the close relationship between dust plumes transported from the Sahara Desert in Africa, and rainfall from tropical cyclones along the U.S. Gulf Coast and ...
July 17, 2024 — As sea ice disappears and grows less reflective, the Arctic has lost around a quarter of its cooling power since 1980, and the world has lost up to 15%, according to new ...
July 17, 2024 — New research has examined the fossil record going back 66 million years and tracked changes to mammalian ecosystems and species diversity on the North American ...
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July 23, 2024 — Fluids circulating underground change rocks over the course of time. These processes must be taken into account if they are to be used as a climate archive. Researchers have used 380-million-year-old ...
July 15, 2024 — As the planet continues to warm due to human-driven climate change, accurate computer climate models will be key in helping illuminate exactly how the climate will continue to be altered in the years ...
July 12, 2024 — Evolutionary biologists studied spoonworts to determine what influence genome duplication has on the adaptive potential of plants. The results show that polyploids -- species with more than two sets ...
July 11, 2024 — Scientists have released a landmark report on glacial geoengineering -- an emerging field studying whether technology could halt the melting of ...
July 10, 2024 — New evidence of changes to the Gulf Stream during the last ice age could indicate additional sensitivity to future climatic changes, finds a new ...
July 3, 2024 — Melting Arctic glaciers are in rapid recession, and microscopic pioneers colonize the new exposed landscapes. Researchers revealed that yeasts play an important role in soil formation in the ...
July 4, 2024 — In recent years global warming has left its mark on the Antarctic ice sheets. The 'eternal' ice in Antarctica is melting faster than previously assumed, particularly in West Antarctica more than East ...
July 1, 2024 — Shrinking glaciers expose new land in the Arctic, creating unique ecosystems. Researchers studied how microbes colonize these barren landscapes. The ...
July 2, 2024 — Melting of glaciers in a major Alaskan icefield has accelerated and could reach an irreversible tipping point earlier than previously thought. The research found that glacier loss on Juneau Icefield, ...
June 28, 2024 — Atmospheric scientists predict that unchecked carbon emissions will force tropical rains to shift northward in the coming decades, which would profoundly impact agriculture and economies near the ...
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June 27, 2024 — Slush -- water-soaked snow -- makes up more than half of all meltwater on the Antarctic ice shelves during the height of summer, yet is poorly accounted for in regional climate models. The findings ...
June 26, 2024 — Researchers have found a chemical clue in Italian limestone that explains a mass extinction of marine life in the Early Jurassic period, 183 million years ago. Volcanic activity pumped out CO2, ...
June 24, 2024 — A doubling of the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere could cause an increase in the average temperature on earth from 7 to even a maximum of 14 degrees. That is shown in the analysis of sediments from ...
June 17, 2024 — Abrupt shifts within complex systems such as the Earth's climate system are extremely hard to predict. Researchers have now succeeded in developing a new method to anticipate such tipping points ...
June 13, 2024 — When it comes to the ocean's response to global warming, we're not in entirely uncharted waters. A new study shows that episodes of extreme heat in Earth's past caused the exchange of ...
June 12, 2024 — Deposits of deep-pink sand washing up on South Australian shores shed new light on when the Australian tectonic plate began to subduct beneath the Pacific plate, as well as the presence of previously ...
June 10, 2024 — Returning end-of-life products to as-new condition is called remanufacturing and can be an essential element in a circular economy. But for more industrial companies to take an interest in it, ...
June 10, 2024 — Astrophysicists calculate the likelihood that Earth was exposed to cold, harsh interstellar clouds, a phenomenon not previously considered in geologic climate ...
June 7, 2024 — A research team has found a de-icing mixture with high effectiveness and low environmental impact after using machine learning to analyze ice melting mechanisms of aqueous solutions of 21 salts and ...
June 4, 2024 — Giant viruses found on the Greenland ice sheet probably regulate the growth of snow algae on the ice by infecting them. Knowing how to control these viruses could help us reduce the rate of ...
June 3, 2024 — A glacier's flow depends on how microscopic defects move through the ice, according to new research that also yielded a new model for predicting how glaciers will flow, ultimately contributing ...
June 3, 2024 — A team of scientists has combined paleoclimatic data from the last 2,000 years with powerful computer modeling and in-the-field research on lake sediments and tree rings to show that an understudied ...
June 3, 2024 — Permafrost soils store large quantities of organic carbon and are often portrayed as a critical tipping element in the Earth system, which, once global warming has reached a certain level, suddenly ...
June 3, 2024 — Researchers have explored how the River Nile evolved over the past 11,500 years and how changes in its geography could have helped shape the fortunes of ancient Egyptian civilization. Research ...
May 30, 2024 — A great armada entered the North Atlantic, launched from the cold shores of North America. But rather than ships off to war, this force was a fleet of icebergs. And the havoc it wrought was to the ...
May 30, 2024 — A whaler's forgotten aerial photos from 1937 have given researchers the most detailed picture of the ice evolution in East Antarctica to date. The results show that the ice has remained stable ...
May 22, 2024 — A new study predicts future climate change impacts could disrupt the krill-heavy diet that humpback whales in the southern hemisphere ...
May 22, 2024 — Many processes in the deep sea are not yet well understood, and the role of microbial communities in particular is often a big unknown. This includes, for example, how organic material that sinks ...
May 20, 2024 — Glaciologists show evidence of warm ocean water intruding kilometers beneath grounded ice at Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica. The findings suggest that existing climate models are underestimating ...
May 20, 2024 — Scientists have found that the record-low levels of sea ice around Antarctica in 2023 were extremely unlikely to happen without the influence of climate change. This low was a one-in-a-2000-year ...
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- Making Remanufacturing Profitable
- The Solar System May Have Passed Through Dense Interstellar Clouds 2 Million Years Ago, Altering Earth's Climate
Friday, June 7, 2024
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- Microscopic Defects in Ice Shape How Massive Glaciers Flow, Study Shows
- Arctic Melting Heavily Influenced by Little-Studied Meteorological Phenomena
- Thawing Permafrost: Not a Climate Tipping Element, but Nevertheless Far-Reaching Impacts
- Crucial Shift in River Nile's Evolution During Ancient Egypt Discovered
Thursday, May 30, 2024
- Historic Iceberg Surges Offer Insights on Modern Climate Change
- Local Bright Spot Among Melting Glaciers: 2000 Km of Antarctic Ice-Covered Coastline Has Been Stable for 85 Years
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
- Future Climate Impacts Put Whale Diet at Risk
- New Insights Into the Degradation Dynamics of Organic Material in the Seafloor
Monday, May 20, 2024
- 'Vigorous Melting' At Antarctica's Thwaites 'Doomsday' Glacier
- Record Low Antarctic Sea Ice 'extremely Unlikely' Without Climate Change
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
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- Did a Magnetic Field Collapse Trigger the Emergence of Animals?
- Ice Shelves Fracture Under Weight of Meltwater Lakes
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- Ice Age Climate Analysis Reduces Worst-Case Warming Expected from Rising CO2
- Paradox of Extreme Cold Events in a Warming World
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- Tiny Plastic Particles Are Found Everywhere
- Humans Can Increase Biodiversity, Archaeological Study Shows
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Wednesday, March 27, 2024
- Scientists Warn: The Grey Seal Hunt Is Too Large
- Looking to the Past to Prevent Future Extinction
- Evolution of the Most Powerful Ocean Current on Earth
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- High Resolution Imagery Advances the Ability to Monitor Decadal Changes in Emperor Penguin Populations
- Grounding Zone Discovery Explains Accelerated Melting Under Greenland's Glaciers
- Exploring Arctic Plants and Lichens: An Important Conservation Baseline for Nunavut's Newest and Largest Territorial Park
Monday, March 11, 2024
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- After Decades of Arctic Sea Ice Getting Faster and More Hazardous for Transport, Models Suggest a Dramatic Reversal Is Coming
- We Know the Arctic Is Warming -- What Will Changing River Flows Do to Its Environment?
- Arctic Could Become 'ice-Free' Within a Decade
Monday, March 4, 2024
- Less Ice in the Arctic Ocean Has Complex Effects on Marine Ecosystems and Ocean Productivity
- Antarctica's Coasts Are Becoming Less Icy
Friday, March 1, 2024
- Researchers Use GPS-Tracked Icebergs in Novel Study to Improve Climate Models
- Glacier Shrinkage Is Causing a 'green Transition'
Thursday, February 29, 2024
- Mercury Rising: Study Sheds New Light on Ancient Volcanoes' Environmental Impact
- Surprising Methane Discovery in Yukon Glaciers: 'Much More Widespread Than We Thought'
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
- 80 Mph Speed Record for Glacier Fracture Helps Reveal the Physics of Ice Sheet Collapse
- Older African Elephants Will Be Most Severely Affected by the Changing Climate
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
- Walleye Struggle With Changes to Timing of Spring Thaw
- First DNA Study of Ancient Eastern Arabians Reveals Malaria Adaptation
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- Climate Change Could Push Bowhead Whales to Cross Paths With Shipping Traffic
- Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats Has Long Been in Flux
- New Cloud Model Could Help With Climate Research
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
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- Frequent Marine Heatwaves in the Arctic Ocean Will Be the Norm
- Greenland's Ice Sheet Is Melting -- And Being Replaced by Vegetation
- Polar Bears Unlikely to Adapt to Longer Summers
Monday, February 12, 2024
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- Industrial Pollution Leaves Its Mark in Mediterranean Corals
- Ice Cores Provide First Documentation of Rapid Antarctic Ice Loss in the Past
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
- Ancient Rocks Improve Understanding of Tectonic Activity Between Earthquakes
- What Turned Earth Into a Giant Snowball 700 Million Years Ago? Scientists Now Have an Answer
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- Trees Struggle to 'breathe' As Climate Warms
- Unprecedented Ocean Heating Shows Risks of a World 3°C Warmer
- Greenland Is a Methane Sink Rather Than a Source