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Surprising Finding Highlights Significance of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions to Mitigate Arctic Climate Change

The drastic cut in sulfate particle emissions in Europe partly explains the amplified Arctic warming since the 1980s, shows a new study published in Nature Geoscience. The team, which consists of scientists from Stockholm University and the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, say that their surprising finding highlights an even more urgent need for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate Arctic climate change.

15 Mar 2016

Study Results Confirm Ocean Played Significant Role in Rise of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

As the Earth emerged from its last ice age several thousand years ago, atmospheric carbon dioxide increased and further warmed the planet. Scientists have long speculated that the primary source of this CO2 was from the deep ocean around Antarctica, though it has been difficult to prove.

15 Mar 2016

Study Helps Policy Makers Assess Impact of Sea Level Rise on People and Infrastructure

A new study by University of Georgia researchers could help protect more than 13 million American homes that will be threatened by rising sea levels by the end of the century.

15 Mar 2016

Upside-Down Rivers of Warm Ocean Water Threaten Stability of Floating Ice Shelves in Antarctica

“Upside-down rivers” of warm ocean water threaten the stability of floating ice shelves in Antarctica, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder’s National Snow and Ice Data Center. The study highlights how parts of Antarctica’s ice sheet may be weakening due to contact with warm ocean water.

15 Mar 2016

Rising Temperatures Worldwide Change Weather Systems and Distribution of Water Around Globe

Rising temperatures worldwide are changing not only weather systems, but - just as importantly - the distribution of water around the globe, according to a study published today (March 14, 2016) in the journal, "Scientific Reports."

15 Mar 2016

NASA Scientists Study Influence of Tidal Movements on Antarctic Ice Shelves

Ice shelves, the floating extensions of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, are not simply resting on the ocean waters: they rise, fall and bend with the tides. Ultimately, these oceanic motions impact the flow of ice coming from the glaciers that these ice shelves buttress. Ryan Walker and Christine Dow, researchers with the Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, recently spent more than a month doing fieldwork in Antarctica to study the influence of tidal movements on a small, little-studied ice shelf.

14 Mar 2016

More Effective Way to Use Natural Gas to Reduce Climate-Warming Emissions

Rice University researchers have determined a more effective way to use natural gas to reduce climate-warming emissions would be in the replacement of existing coal-fired power plants and fuel-oil furnaces rather than burning it in cars and buses.

9 Mar 2016

Climate Mitigation Efforts in Energy System Could Lead to Increasing Pressure on Water Resources

A latest study reported in the Environmental Research Letters journal states that the efforts to mitigate climatic conditions might cause pressure on water resources to increase.

4 Mar 2016

New Insights into Physical Processes Controlling Change in Reflectivity of Greenland Ice Sheet

Greenland's snowy surface has been getting darker over the past two decades, absorbing more heat from the sun and increasing snow melt, a new study of satellite data shows.

4 Mar 2016

Carbon Stored in Arctic Soil’s Permafrost Layer Could Accelerate Global Warming

Neil Sturchio, professor and chair of the University of Delaware's Department of Geological Sciences, is exploring how the thawing of permafrost, a subsurface layer of soil that remains mostly frozen throughout the year, affects vegetation and the carbon cycle in the Toolik Lake area of the Alaska's North Slope.

3 Mar 2016

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Surprising Finding Highlights Significance of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions to Mitigate Arctic Climate Change

Study Results Confirm Ocean Played Significant Role in Rise of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

Study Helps Policy Makers Assess Impact of Sea Level Rise on People and Infrastructure

Upside-Down Rivers of Warm Ocean Water Threaten Stability of Floating Ice Shelves in Antarctica

Rising Temperatures Worldwide Change Weather Systems and Distribution of Water Around Globe

NASA Scientists Study Influence of Tidal Movements on Antarctic Ice Shelves

More Effective Way to Use Natural Gas to Reduce Climate-Warming Emissions

Climate Mitigation Efforts in Energy System Could Lead to Increasing Pressure on Water Resources

New Insights into Physical Processes Controlling Change in Reflectivity of Greenland Ice Sheet

Carbon Stored in Arctic Soil’s Permafrost Layer Could Accelerate Global Warming

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