The Arctic could be ice-free by the 2030s, scientists sound the alarm
This could accelerate global warming even further.
Tag: arctic ice
Striking new atlas shows dramatic extent of Arctic ice loss
Every five years for more than a century, National Geographic releases an atlas of the world complete with the latest ...
As Arctic ice goes, so do the polar bears. Study finds land food is inadequate to keep them fed
After carefully calculating the net nutritional gain polar bears have from land-based food like caribou, berries or bird eggs, researchers ...
Arctic ice melting much faster than thought
Using both modern and historic measurements, researchers now have a more extensive view of how the Arctic sea ice has ...
East Antarctica is sliding sideways
A song of ice and fire Antarctica is split in two different areas: East Antarctica and West Antarctica - and ...
Record Arctic ice loss – or why Spring isn’t coming
It's important to understand that our planet's climate consists of so much interconnected elements, that what happens someplace affects virtually ...
Global warming will open shipping routes directly through the North Pole by 2050
A group of researchers assessed seven individual climate models and found that in each case common open water vessels will ...
Trigger for Earth’s last ‘big freeze’ located by geoscientists
Some 12,900 years ago, a massive flood of melted freshwater in the Arctic caused a 1,200-year-long chill nicknamed the "Big ...
Arctic ice hits new low, expected to collapse of sea ice within four years
Arctic ice, a key indicator for global climate status, has reached another record low, lower than in computer estimates, hinting ...
Iceberg twice the size of Manhattan breaks off Greenland glacier
Researchers at the University of Delaware and the Canadian Ice Service recently reported that an ice island, whose surface is ...
Alarmingly high mercury concentrations in the Arctic might be due to Siberian rivers
Besides ever thinning ice, permafrost melting, soot deposits, habitat loss, you might as well add another significant factor threatening the ...
Harsh winters linked to Arctic ice melting
A recent study performed by a team of American/Chinese scientists shows that there's a direct link between the progressive shrinking ...
Arctic sea ice volume at record low in 2010
The arctic ice volume recorded last fall was the lowest ever since the first satellite reports were introduced, according to ...