Home - Environment - A meltwater pond at the foot of Mount Hood’s Coalman Glacier has grown larger than in previous years, and the USGS says a sudden release could send a debris flow down the White River toward the Highway 35 bridge…
Sea ice is formed from ocean water that freezes. Because the oceans consist of saltwater, this occurs at about minus 1.8 degrees Celsius (28.8 degrees Fahrenheit). Most Antarctic sea ice occurs annually, meaning it forms in the winter and melts during the…
Home » Science » Arctic Ice Cap Research Suggests Human Activity Halted Next Ice Age Around 2,000 years ago, this ice cap began a slow re-expansion, signaling the onset of a new glaciation period, commonly known as an ice age. However, in the…
Human-caused global warming may have interrupted the early stages of a new glacial period in the Canadian Arctic, according to research published in the journal Science. Scientists studying the Barnes Ice Cap on Baffin Island, Nunavut, found that ice began…
"We can now demonstrate a strong and statistically significant acceleration of global warming since around 2015," says Grant Foster, a US statistics expert and co-author of the study, published in the scientific journal Geophysical Research Letters. Scientists Uncover a Hidden Acceleration…
Latest: Can The Gulf Be Rebuilt? Weather forecasting website Severe Weather Europe warns that the Arctic polar vortex could undergo a sudden stratospheric warming in early November, potentially the earliest on record. The rapid warming could weaken, displace, or split…
At first glance it looks exactly like a seahorse. It has the same horse-shaped head tilted down from the body, the same curled and grasping tail, and in the males a fully enclosed pouch for brooding the young. But this…
A shrinking ice cap in Arctic Canada tells a striking story of how humans may have halted the planet’s next ice age by burning fossil fuels, according to new research. Around 20,000 years ago, the once vast Laurentide Ice Sheet sprawled…
Around 20,000 years ago, the once-vast Laurentide Ice Sheet sprawled from the Arctic Circle as far south as Illinois and was up to two miles thick in parts. All that remains of it now is the Delaware-sized Barnes Ice Cap on…
Scientists discovered how unusual warmth in the Southern Indian Ocean combined with La Niña to influence record-low Arctic sea ice in 2025. In February and March 2025, Arctic sea ice shrank to the lowest extents ever recorded for those months. The event…
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