Scientists make disturbing discovery on Arctic expedition — here's what they found

As ScienceDirect shared, the researchers published their study in the journal Environmental Research. They took samples from ...

Antarctica is starting to look a lot like Greenland—and that isn’t good

As recently as the 1990s, when the Greenland Ice Sheet and the rest of the Arctic region were measurably thawing under the ...

Expedition to the North Pole: Polar Researchers Fear an Ecological Collapse in the Arctic

The research ship Polarstern spent two months in the ice of the Arctic this summer. What they found could be evidence of an ecological collapse.

This sea route has been dismissed as too treacherous. China’s taking the risk

The Arctic journey is billed as the first step in China’s quest to open a “Polar Silk Road,” a commercial shipping route ...
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Melting glaciers at the end of the Ice Age may have sped up continental drift, fueled volcanic eruptions

Around 10,000 years ago as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading in the Atlantic Ocean, may have temporarily sped up—with a little help from ...

North American ice sheets drove most of the sea-level rise after the last ice age

When the planet was heating up at the end of the last Ice Age, ice-melt flooded out by glaciers made oceans rise. Scientists ...

North American ice sheets drove dramatic sea-level rise at end of last ice age, study finds

Melting ice sheets in North America played a far greater role in driving global sea-level rise at the end of the last ice age ...