Satellite image of Severnaya Zemlya. The archipelago is located in the Russian High Arctic at about 80 degrees north latitude and covers about 37,000 square kilometers. Photo: Landsat 8, NASA The news about massive ice losses in the Arctic does not stop. After...
Last week, more than 8 billion tonnes melted from Greenland’s ice sheet on each of two consecutive days. Photo: Heiner Kubny Greenland’s ice sheet is melting rapidly again this year – on Wednesday and Thursday of last week alone, a total of nearly 17...
Sea ice formation in the Arctic Ocean not only depends on air temperatures, but is also strongly influenced by incoming water masses from the North Atlantic Ocean, as researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute have shown in two new studies. Photo: Julia Hager The...
Until now, scientists had not fully understood the strong increase in air temperature along the Antarctic Peninsula in recent decades. The new study now shows that apparently natural aerosols contribute significantly to the warming in the region. Foto: Julia Hager The...
The geographic poles are not fixed points. Rather, they wander depending on the mass distribution on Earth. In the last 40 years, however, they have shifted by an astonishing four meters. In a new study, scientists attribute this mainly to climate change. Photo: Dr....
