5+ hour, 49+ min ago   (663+ words) Scientists have found that Arctic cyclones become especially destructive when several strike one after another. These storm clusters cause about twice as much sea ice loss as isolated cyclones, with impacts that persist roughly two and a half times longer....

10+ hour, 9+ min ago   (797+ words) Much of the ancient carbon released from thawing Arctic permafrost appears to end up trapped in seabed sediments rather than quickly returning to the atmosphere. The Arctic’s frozen ground holds an enormous reservoir of organic carbon. As permafrost thaws and…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (556+ words) A massive cobalt blue barge floats on the surface of the Gulf as seabirds soar overhead while classic, low-hanging summertime clouds drift to the south. The Maratha II out of Orange Beach, Alabama on the morning of Sept. 2 is facing…...

18+ hour, 58+ min ago   (347+ words) Limiting Factor is a two-person Triton 36000/2 submersible rated to 11,000 meters. Its pressure hull is a titanium-alloy sphere with walls 90 millimeters thick. Triton states that the sphere was machined to 99.933 percent of a true sphere. The crew sits inside that compact…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (885+ words) (Gabrielle Kleber / SWNS) Melting Arctic glaciers are creating a climate “doom loop” by flushing out ancient methane from rocks beneath the ice, reveals new research. The more glaciers melt, the more of the greenhouse gas they are likely to release…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (879+ words) “Thwaites demise is inevitable” (Inside Antarctica’s Doomsday Glacier, PBS, August 19th, 2026). Aboard the South Korean icebreaker Araon: “This is Thwaites, a glacier on the edge of Earth, teetering on the edge of collapse – the most consequential glacier on the planet. No…...

20+ hour, 43+ min ago   (633+ words) A record-sized iceberg separated from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier, creating one of the Arctic’s most unusual ice events in years. Researchers followed its path as the massive iceberg moved into open waters. A giant iceberg covering 29 square miles broke away from…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (384+ words) A powerful earthquake on March 10, 2025, did more than shake Jan Mayen, a remote Norwegian island in the Arctic Ocean. It also unleashed a massive rock avalanche that buried a large section of a glacier, and researchers say rising temperatures likely…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (111+ words) Taking water samples from a glacial river on Svalbard. (Gabrielle Kleber via SWNS) Melting Arctic glaciers are creating a climate "doom loop" by flushing out ancient methane from rocks beneath the ice, reveals new research. Dr. Gabrielle Kleber during Svalbard…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (477+ words) With less sea ice blocking sunlight, more light reaches surface waters and encourages phytoplankton growth. Marine heat waves are often seen as another sign that the planet's natural defenses are faltering. But a new global analysis suggests that, in some…...