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The "doomsday" glacier"s giant ice shelf is about to break away
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (718+ words) The floating ice shelf of world's widest glacier " Thwaites glacier in Antarctica " is detaching, with worrying implications for global sea-level rise The Araon, a South Korean ice-breaker vessel, navigates a bed of sea ice near the Thwaites glacier in January…...
Vast areas of Welsh coastal habitat lost since Industrial Revolution - new study
15+ hour, 51+ min ago (391+ words) Three centuries of industrialisation have left large parts of Wales's coastline and estuaries so heavily altered that modern conservation efforts are effectively working from a "blank ecological canvas, according to new research. The study, led by researchers at Swansea University,…...
MY TURN: Science on Alaskan fisheries must adapt " not disappear
10+ hour, 42+ min ago (401+ words) Published 11: 30 am Sunday, May 17, 2026 Those concerns deserve serious discussion and serious solutions. But increasingly, Alaska's fisheries debate is drifting away from science-based problem-solving and toward campaign-season slogans. That is a mistake, particularly at a time when changing ocean conditions demand…...
Antarctic Sea Ice Enters 'Shock' Decline as Ocean Heat Breaks Through
17+ hour, 13+ min ago (283+ words) For decades, Antarctica seemed to defy global warming....
German minister defends decision to allow attempt to rescue whale Timmy
16+ hour, 4+ min ago (583+ words) Humpback stranded on sandbank was unlikely to survive, experts had said, recommending it be left to die in peace German authorities have defended their decision to allow a risky rescue attempt of a stranded whale to go ahead, despite experts…...
Scientists discover a hidden ocean process speeding up Antarctic ice melt
20+ hour, 18+ min ago (103+ words) ...
Antarctica lost an area of ice the size of Greenland after stronger winds pulled warm, salty water from the depths, and scientists warn that this cycle could keep the Antarctic Ocean in a critical state of low sea ice until 2030 and beyond.
21+ hour, 56+ min ago (1170+ words) The study, led by oceanographer Aditya Narayanan, shows that the collapse occurred in three phases connected over a decade. First, there was a slow accumulation of heat at the ocean's bottom; then, intense winds mixed this heat with the surface;…...
Vanishing sea ice is driving rare polar vortex disruptions
22+ hour, 45+ min ago (383+ words) A new study reveals that Arctic ice loss could intensify extreme cold waves and disrupt winters on several continents....
Discovery of a 'hidden heat source' causing Antarctic ice to melt from beneath the surface.
1+ week, 2+ hour ago (66+ words) A new study by Norwegian scientists suggests that Antarctica may be melting faster than predicted due to the impact of warm ocean currents hidden deep beneath the ice shelves, causing sea levels to rise more rapidly than anticipated....
These four glaciers have existed since the age of the mammoths, and now they could disappear for the first time in human history
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (575+ words) These four glaciers have endured for thousands of years in changing environments. They first formed when mammoths still wandered across North America. Now, scientists warn that the ancient ice could disappear within decades. Researchers now think some Sierra Nevada ice…...