Polar sea ice is vanishing far faster than most people expected, and the change is not only visible from above. Beneath the thinning ice cover, the Arctic and Southern Oceans are becoming far more ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A severe winter storm that brought freezing rain, sleet and snow to a large part of the U.S. was intensified by the polar vortex ...
For years, experts have studied the impacts of melting sea ice on our environment. However, scientists have recently discovered a startling new development lurking deep in the polar oceans. In a ...
A new study shows that during the last two deglaciations, i.e., the transition from an ice age to the warm interglacial ...
Fresh evidence from sediment cores, satellite records, and deep-ocean sensors is converging on a troubling finding: meltwater pouring off the Antarctic ice sheet may be reorganizing the planet’s ocean ...
The United Nations declared the 2020s the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development to highlight the need for public engagement, citizenship, and connection to harness positive change for ...
Comparison of Arctic Ocean FSLE snapshots from the two simulations during March. Brighter regions (high FSLE) indicate more vigorous horizontal stirring. Left panel: present-day conditions; right ...
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