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Coastal glacier retreat linked to climate change

More of the world's coastal glaciers are melting faster than ever, but exactly what's triggering the large-scale retreat has been difficult to pin…
August 1, 2022
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Climate change may be culprit in Antarctic fish disease outbreak

Climate change might be behind an unusual disease outbreak among Antarctic fish, researchers are finding. For a decade, University of Oregon…
July 18, 2022
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Researchers on Antarctic ice.

Groundwater discovered in sediments buried deep under Antarctic ice

Scientists have made the first detection of groundwater beneath an Antarctic ice stream. The U.S. National Science Foundation-supported discovery…
May 24, 2022
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Lake 578 in southern Greenland

Rewriting the history books: Why the Vikings left Greenland

One of the great mysteries of late medieval history is why the Norse, who established successful settlements in southern Greenland in 985, abandoned…
April 28, 2022
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a Weddell seal pup (right) with its mother (left)

To cut costs, Weddell seal pups keep swimming when trading in their fluff

Open water swimming is not for the fainthearted, especially when air and water temperatures are frigid. So how do furry Weddell seal pups born on the…
April 25, 2022
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the northern Tibetan plateau

Fast-melting alpine permafrost may contribute to rising global temperatures

From the ancient sludge of lakebeds in Asia's Tibetan Plateau, scientists can decipher a vision of Earth's future. That future, it turns out, may look…
April 18, 2022
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Fewer rainy days and earlier springs linked in northern climates

A drop in the total number of rainy days each year is contributing to an earlier arrival of spring for plants in northern climates, a new study finds…
March 21, 2022
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ice wedge polygons

Monitoring Arctic permafrost with satellites, supercomputers and deep learning

Permafrost -- ground that has been permanently frozen for two or more years -- makes up a large part of the Earth, around 15% of the Northern…
March 10, 2022
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researchers at the Palmer LTER site

Antarctic research links warming to fish decline

A long-term study in the Southern Ocean reveals a correlation among warming waters, decreased sea ice and reduced abundance of Antarctic silverfish…
February 23, 2022
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map of the evolution of Antarctica's ice sheets

Antarctic ice's deep past shows it could be more vulnerable to warming

In a study published in the journal Nature, University of South Florida researcher Amelia Shevenell and her colleagues documented the evolution of…
February 14, 2022