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  • Arctic Methane Emissions Reaching Record Levels

    19.01.2010

    On the heels of a string of reports on the methane emissions from the Arctic permafrost, a new study published in Science shows a massive spike in the amount of methane seeping from Arctic permafrost as it melts. As the study shows, methane emissions have risen by almost one-third in…

  • Invading Trees Likely to Cause Increased Warming in the Arctic

    13.01.2010

    Trees seem to be slowly moving northward as the tundra in the Arctic melts. According to a study from University of California Berkley scientists published in the online Early Edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the northward expansion of the treeline (the northernmost point at…

  • Arctic Changes Influenced Ice Age Global Climate Patterns

    13.01.2010

    An international study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is being published this week in Nature Geoscience. The study shows that water levels in the Bering Strait helped drive global climate patterns during ice ages dating back more than 100,000 years.

  • Warm Mid-Pliocene a Warning for Today’s Warming Arctic

    31.12.2009

    Scientists from the US Geological Survey found that the Arctic Ocean and the Nordic Seas were too warm to support summer sea ice during the mid-Pliocene warm period (3.3 to 3 million years ago) in a study published in Stratigraphy.

  • Melting Tundra to Lead to Increased Carbon Emissions in Arctic Ocean

    30.12.2009

    According to research conducted by the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, the release of organic material from the Arctic tundra as it thaws will ultimately result in additional carbon dioxide emissions.

  • Black Carbon Cause for Concern in the Himalayas

    16.12.2009

    New research conducted jointly by scientists from NASA and the Chinese Academy of Sciences shows black carbon (black, sooty particles which result from the combustion of fossil fuels) deposits in the Himalayan glaciers might have contributed to the significant retreat of the non-polar ice masses in this part of the…

  • Parts of Alaskan Coastline Eroding According to New Study

    16.12.2009

    The stretch of coastline between Point Barrow and Prudhoe Bay in Alaska is eroding fast according to a new study from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Conditions in the region are causing part of the coastline to be torn away by the warmer and more numerous large waves pounding…

  • Recent Greenland Ice Sheet Observations Summarized in New Report

    15.12.2009

    A new report compiled by some of the world's leading experts and issued by the Arctic Council's Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) synthesizes the latest findings (peer-reviewed scientific material available before the spring of 2009) on the Greenland Ice Sheet. Entitled "The Greenland Ice Sheet in a Changing Climate",…

  • New Fossils Show Antarctica May Have Been Refuge during End-Permian Extinction

    03.12.2009

    Researchers have identified a new fossil species, Kombuisia antarctica, a species they believe survived the massive End-Permian Extinction 252 million years ago (an extinction event that wiped out most living species on the planet and may have been caused by global warming) by living in cooler climates in Antarctica.

  • Accelerating Climate Change Requires Urgent Emission Reductions

    30.11.2009

    With ice sheets melting at an increasing rate and Arctic sea ice vanishing faster than projected, The Copenhagen Diagnosis, a new report documenting the key findings in climate change science since the publication of the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report in 2007, has been released to give an update on scientific…

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