The Arctic Ocean was once an important source of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere — and it could become one again, researchers warn.
Researchers say decline in phytoplankton suggests weakened planetary capacity to absorb carbon dioxide The world’s oceans are losing their greenness owing to global heating, according to a study that suggests our planet’s capacity to absorb carbon dioxide could be weakening. The change in the palette of the seas is caused by a decline of phytoplankton , the tiny marine creatures that are responsible for nearly half of the biosphere’s productivity. Continue reading...
Dr Beatrix (Bea) Schlarb-Ridley, Director of Innovation and Impact at the British Antarctic Survey, has been awarded an Honorary Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services … The post British Antarctic Survey Director Receives Honorary MBE appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
Image: The changing face of the Chilean glaciers in the Laguna San Rafael National Park is featured in these satellite images from 1987 and 2024.
Immigration enforcement has shifted to Chicago's streets during Trump's second term, with ICE agents questioning residents and targeting sanctuary city policies. This aggressive operation, aimed at intimidating local officials, has sparked widespread resistance from residents and civil rights groups, testing the limits of federal power.
Changes in global mean sea level (GMSL) during the late Cenozoic remain uncertain. We use a reconstruction of changes in δ18O of seawater to reconstruct GMSL since 4.5 million years ago (Ma) that accounts for temperature-driven changes in the δ18O of ...
Republican Jeff Landry is seeing mixed reviews in his state for prioritizing existing carbon dioxide applications.
Remarkable drone footage reveals polar bears seeking refuge in an abandoned Russian research station on Kolyuchin Island. Photographer Vadim Makhorov captured these images, showcasing the bears' adaptability as their natural sea ice hunting grounds shrink. This unusual sight highlights the impact of climate change on Arctic wildlife and their interaction with forgotten human structures.
Over 2,000 participants from nearly 70 countries will take part in the Arctic Circle Assembly, which opens tomorrow, Thursday, at Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavík and runs through Saturday.
[UN News] The UN maritime agency opened a special session in London on Tuesday, where nations are debating - and may adopt - a landmark framework to curb greenhouse gas emissions for global shipping, amid intense debate and open US opposition.
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 15 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02448-1Glacier microclimates can decouple glacier temperatures from ongoing climatic warming, slowing down melting. However, these microclimates will decay as glaciers retreat. A statistical model indicates that by the latter half of the twenty-first century, the temperature of glaciers will be increasingly sensitive to fluctuations in atmospheric temperature.
“Ice XXI” is an entirely new phase of ice with a crystal structure that’s more complex than the ice found on Titan or Ganymede.
Station leader Andy Warton says isolation takes getting used to, but a ‘profound adventure’ with auroras, penguins and icebergs awaits Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Few people witness the otherworldly seasonal transformation of Antarctica, but a small group of Australians experience it first-hand. From the complete darkness of polar winter to the peachy glow of a round-the-clock summer sun, they witness the spectacle of light and wildlife return colour to an icy landscape, and gaze up at silver and green auroras across the night sky. The Australian Antarctic Program is now recruiting for its 2026-27 season, offering work in Antarctica to about 300 Australians across almost 40 different roles. Continue reading...
Greenland is melting, the Alps are melting and the Himalayas are melting -- yet in one vast mountain region, huge glaciers have remained stable, or even gained mass, in recent decades.
A new report has revealed how much carbon is locked away by the isles’ rich underwater habitats - and how much more could be captured in the future.
"'Hand to hand combat' and it's ICE agents shooting a priest at point blank range while an inflatable frog twerks in the background."View Entire Post ›
America is set to acquire 11 icebreaking vessels from Finland, a significant move to boost its Arctic presence. President Trump announced the deal, emphasizing Finland's expertise in building these crucial ships. This collaboration will see four vessels constructed in Finland and seven in the US, strengthening bilateral defense ties amidst rising Arctic importance.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 130, Issue 10, October 2025.
Driftwood plays a key role in Arctic coastal ecosystems: it stores carbon, stabilises coastlines and provides a habitat for animals. At the same time, it can offer clues regarding climate change in the Arctic region, providing information on the likes of storm surges, coastal erosion and shifting fluvial dynamics. Despite the crucial role it plays, there is still a lot that we do not know about the large-scale distribution patterns of driftwood. Now, for the first time, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute have systematically mapped driftwood deposits along an 11,000 kilometre stretch of coastline in Alaska and North West Canada, using satellite imagery and AI-powered evaluation methods. The result is the largest database ever produced, with researchers able to identify over 19,000...
New research finds 90% of marine fish sold by major US retailers are wild-caught, including threatened or endangered species Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The global trade in marine aquarium fish relies heavily on fish sourced directly from wild populations, with many consumers unaware of the practice due to murky supply chains. New research has revealed the scale of the issue, finding most marine aquarium fish sold online in the US were wild-caught, mainly from the western Pacific and Indian oceans. Continue reading...
New research shows massive glaciers in Sierra Nevada projected to melt away by the beginning of the next century Deep in California’s Sierra Nevada, massive glaciers are disappearing and projected to melt away completely by the beginning of the next century, leaving ice-free peaks for the first time in human history, new research has found. The mountain range’s glaciers are older than previously known, dating back tens of thousands of years, with some as old as the last ice age, according to an article published last week in Science Advances . Continue reading...
Praised as “the strongest polar ship of its time,” the Endurance revealed major structural flaws that may explain why it never reached its final destination.
ICE agents said Ian Roberts was found with US$3000, a handgun and a hunting knife.
The North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre is approaching a 'tipping point' that would have 'major implications for the climate', report scientists at the University of Exeter.
The fleet of British Antarctic Survey aircraft have taken off on their annual ‘ferry flights’ from Canada, in preparation for a new season of science in Antarctica. The BAS fleet … The post Take off marks launch of Ticket to Antarctica appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
Millions of people a year visit the site run by the National Snow and Ice Data Center. It tracks changes to the world’s melting polar regions.
They are melting like never seen before, changing landscapes around the world beyond recognition.
The Department of Homeland Security Secretary confirmed that ICE agents will have a presence at the big game in Santa Clara, California.
New research quantifying the global impact of forest age transitions found that 140 million tons of aboveground carbon are lost per year because of old-growth forests being replaced by younger stands.
An expert explains why some offsets don’t deliver real climate benefits and what must change to make them trustworthy. The post The flaws of carbon credits designed to protect forests – and how to fix them appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Brackets of water beneath Antarctica may shape the future of our coastlines.
Exclusive: Temporary deal to shield UK exporters from levy’s impact is now viewed by both sides as likely UK politics live – latest updates The EU and Britain are poised to agree a deal sparing British businesses from a carbon border tax being introduced in 2026, with officials targeting late spring for the next EU-UK summit. The EU is introducing a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) on 1 January targeting imports produced using carbon-intensive methods, such as steel, glass and fertiliser. Continue reading...
Switzerland’s glaciers have faced “enormous” melting this year with a 3% drop in total volume — the fourth-largest annual drop on record — due to the effects of global warming, Swiss glaciologists reported.
Studying samples from the ice sheet gives an environmental record of over a million years.
Upwelling generates a nutrient-rich “cold tongue” in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean (EEP), with impacts on global climate, oceanic biological productivity, and the carbon cycle. The cold tongue was reduced during the Pliocene Epoch, a feature ...
After his high-stakes summit with US President Donald Trump in Anchorage, Alaska, in August, Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters that cooperation with the United States in the Arctic was “very possible”. “We see that Arctic cooperation is also very possible in our international context. For example, between the far east of Russia and the west coast of the US.” Putin did not give details, nor did Trump, who spoke after Putin at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. But one day earlier,...
Thirteen-thousand-year-old azurite flecks reveal a hidden prehistoric palette.
OBERGOMS — Switzerland's glaciers melted considerably over the past 12 months to log their fourth-largest reduction in ice volume on record, monitoring body GLAMOS said on Wednesday.
Some scientists argue the risks of climate damage outweigh possible benefits. Others say more research is needed as the Arctic warms.
The discovery of huge petroglyphs of camels and donkeys, as well as hundreds of engraving tools, hints at complex early settlement in the region following the Ice Age.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said the Department of Homeland Security has requested for 100 military personnel to help protect ICE agents and facilities in his state.
Ian Roberts was superintendent of Des Moines public schools, the largest school district in the state The superintendent of Iowa ’s largest school district has had his education license revoked by state education officials following his arrest last week by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents. Ian Roberts, the superintendent of Des Moines public schools (DMPS), was detained by Ice agents on Friday morning in what the Department of Homeland Security described as a “targeted enforcement operation”. Continue reading...
The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives.
Ian Andre Roberts, former head of Des Moines Public Schools, was detained on a 'fugitive warrant' after he attempted to flee from ICE agents.
Stratospheric temperatures in Antarctica are spiking, which could see strange weather unfold across the southern hemisphere in the coming months
The newly-discovered penguin species went extinct when the ice age hit, but researchers don't think the cold was to blame for their demise.
4 Levers to Help Scale Net-Zero Carbon and Resilient Housing alicia.cypress… Wed, 09/24/2025 - 11:05 .city-callout { border: 3px solid #9B216C !important; padding: 10px !important; } .city-callout-heading{ border-bottom: 0.5px solid #1a1919; padding-bottom: .6875rem; margin-bottom: .5rem; color:#9B216C !important; } The built environment accounts for over one-third of global emissions . In rapidly developing markets like India and Mexico, a surge in housing construction faces a pivotal choice: lock in high-carbon infrastructure or, with the right interventions, enable resilient, low-carbon designs and create millions of green jobs. When supported by integrated policies, targeted finance and adaptive business models, these markets have the potential...
Records obtained by Street Roots and the Guardian back claim from Oregon city’s mayor that Ice violated a land use permit to detain people overnight US citizens and permanent residents: how do you feel about the possibility of being racially profiled by Ice agents? Portland authorities are in a standoff with Donald Trump’s administration over an Ice detention facility in the Oregon city, after an investigation found the administration is using the facility for overnight detentions, in violation of its city-issued permits. The standoff comes amid threats from Donald Trump to dispatch troops to the city, and residents protesting nightly outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) field office in question. Continue reading...
Amanda Barry will be among a team of six selected by the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust, which since 1993 has worked to protect the huts left behind by early Antarctic researchers.
A glass thread strung along the bottom of a fjord captured the entire process of calving, from the cracking of ice to the breakup of bergs.
I promise, you'll want to stock up on these glacier water eye sticks.View Entire Post ›
The glaciers of Iceland have inspired countless namesakes — and Icelandair’s winged Boeing 757-200 proudly carried the name of Europe’s largest glacier, Vatnajökull.
Matias Augusto Travizano, an Argentinian tech entrepreneur, tragically died after falling from Mount Shasta in California. Travizano had reached the summit with two other climbers. During the descent, he and another climber lost their way. They ended up on the Wintun Glacier. Travizano slipped and fell approximately 3,000 feet. A California Highway Patrol helicopter recovered his body. Officials warn climbers about the dangers of even the 'safer' routes.
A hiker who summited Mt. Shasta earlier this month lost track of the trail on his way down and slid 2,000 feet to his death.
The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is pioneering inclusivity in one of the world’s most challenging environments – the vast, icy expanse of Antarctica. Through pioneering work on polar hygiene and broader … The post Breaking barriers in the ice appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
The N.W.T’s Department of Municipal and Community Affairs announced trials for the 2026 Arctic Winter Games will all be held in Yellowknife. That's a departure from previous years when trials have been held in other regional centres.
The woody trunks and branches that make up Queensland’s tropical rainforests have switched from net carbon absorbers to a carbon source.
Maritime nations had been deliberating on adopting regulations to move the shipping industry away from fossil fuels, but U.S. President Donald Trump had vowed retaliation.
Climate researcher Prof. Dr. Markus Rex is one of three distinguished recipients of this year’s NOMIS Award for groundbreaking interdisciplinary research. The NOMIS Award is one of the most prestigious and generously funded international scientific awards. The scientist from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) received particular recognition for leading the MOSAiC (Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate) expedition between the autumns of 2019 and 2020. For a year, the research ship drifted through the Arctic, frozen in ice. The goal was to gain a better understanding of the complex interaction between the ocean, the ice, the atmosphere and the ecosystem. Through the MOSAiC expedition, hundreds of scientists...
Brazilian navigator Tamara Klink told AFP she encountered "very little" sea ice on her solo sail through the Northwest Passage -- a rare feat that would have been impossible without an icebreaker ship three decades ago.
In French, this has nothing to do with white bears or ice caps.
RRS Sir David Attenborough departs from Plymouth on 17 October to begin five-week voyage to Antarctica, marking the start of the new Antarctic field season. Cambridge, UK – British Antarctic … The post A new Antarctic season begins for 2025/26 appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
Pollution from vehicles, power plants and wildfires soared last year, marking a global acceleration of carbon emissions, a U.N. report says.
Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world.
The parents of a U.S. Marine were detained by ICE agents, with the father being deported and the mother's location still unknown.
Learn how radiocarbon dating and ancient DNA analysis revealed that hippos were alive and thriving during Europe’s last ice age.
The UN maritime agency opened a special session in London on Tuesday, where nations are debating – and may adopt – a landmark framework to curb greenhouse gas emissions for global shipping, amid intense debate and open US opposition.
With the first phase of a ceasefire holding, eyes are on what is next for Gaza. And, ICE agents are ramping up arrest operations in several cities and raising concerns about their tactics.
The Polar Vortex is a large circulation of winds 30 miles above ground level in the stratosphere, and can impact winter weather by strengthening or weakening.
Mixed doubles pair Dechapol Puavaranukroh and Supissara Paewsampran missed out on a chance to win their fifth title of the year after bowing out in the semi-finals of the US$475,000 (approx 15.2 million baht) BWF Arctic Open in Finland on Saturday.
Sea turtles are making a surprising comeback, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The news was not so good for Arctic seals.
The first phase of the project is expected to be able to remove 30,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide directly from the air per year.
Around 200 Texas National Guard soldiers and 300 soldiers from the Illinois National Guard will protect ICE agents and federal property, the military said.
Learn how astronomers spotted 2025 TF, an asteroid that passed just 266 miles over Antarctica in early October 2025.
US President Donald Trump called Wednesday for the Democratic governor of Illinois and mayor of Chicago to be jailed for resisting his mass deportation campaign, a day after armed troops from Texas arrived in the state. Chicago, the largest city in Illinois and third-largest in the country, has become the latest flashpoint in a crackdown by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents that has sparked allegations of rights abuses and myriad lawsuits. Masked ICE agents have surged into...
The team representing the Northwest Territories in the Arctic Winter Games won’t be taking part in any snowshoeing competitions this year.
Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions The failure of carbon offsets to cut planet-heating pollution is “not due to a few bad apples”, a review paper has found, but down to deep-seated systemic problems that incremental change will not solve. Research over two decades has found “intractable” problems that have made carbon credits in most big programmes poor quality, according to the study. While the industry and diplomats have made efforts to improve the system, it found much-awaited rules agreed at a UN climate summit last year “did not substantially address the quality problem”. Continue reading...
Sir Ernest Shackleton's polar ship, Endurance, was considered to be the strongest of its time but the vessel had significant weaknesses that led to its demise -- and Shackleton knew it.
Tiny poops are supposed to sink to the seafloor, locking away carbon. But scientists have found that warm spells are disrupting that flushing.
China has completed its first manned deep dive below the Arctic polar ice in what was also the world’s first coordinated crewed-uncrewed submersible operation in the polar region. The dives were conducted as part of China’s 15th and largest Arctic Ocean science expedition, which concluded last month. Researchers collected hundreds of deep-sea samples as well as data on biodiversity, ocean hydrology, sea ice conditions and water chemistry – including with the help of artificial intelligence (AI),...
ICE agents are under fire for recent efforts where they dragged residents, including children, out of their homes and ransacked buildings.
RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra suggested gold prices are now acting as a fresh barometer of global uncertainty, a role previously held by crude oil. He warned of a potential correction in global equity markets, especially tech stocks, citing widespread fiscal stress. This comes as gold continues its upward trajectory, poised for a seventh consecutive weekly gain, reflecting heightened global anxieties.
Greenpeace has called for the Hong Kong government to put in place conservation-driven measures to protect the Sai Kung outlying islands from ecological damage caused by overtourism. The green group raised the alarm on Friday after it found a large number of visitors trampling corals and excessively digging up coastal organisms in the city’s Unesco Global Geopark region. A site inspection by Greenpeace found that 4,062 people landed on Sharp Island, also known as Kiu Tsui Chau, on Wednesday, the...
Canada’s foreign affairs minister was warned Russian, Chinese presence has introduced 'a high degree of uncertainty' into Arctic security.
The onetime social media sensation accused ICE agents this week of racially profiling people in their efforts to track down and round up illegal immigrants.
Scientists are beginning to understand the sudden loss of sea ice in Antarctica – and there is growing evidence that it represents a permanent shift with potentially catastrophic consequences
Scientists have a lot of questions about our planet’s most important carbon sink—and a new project could help answer them.
Ancient ice from Antarctica, extracted as part of the Beyond EPICA – Oldest Ice project, captures a unique climate record spanning at least the past 1.2 million years. The team … The post A historical moment: over 1.2 million years of Earth’s climate history captured from an Antarctic ice core appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
The shrinkage is the fourth-largest after those in 2022, 2023 and back in 2003.
The glaciers of California's Sierra Nevada are disappearing as temperatures rise. Scientists recently found that the glaciers probably have never before melted in human history.
New research finds the disappearance of glaciers in the Sierra Nevada will be unprecedented in the human history of North America.
Alaska’s bowhead whales can hear the climate changing. Scientists are listening in, too. The post In a changing Arctic, how much noise is too much? appeared first on High Country News.
Scientist says warmth from the ocean is mixing with water closest to Antarctica.
Though their ancestral lands are being eyed for their energy and mineral wealth, the Indigenous peoples of Russia's Arctic are unlikely to prosper.
Antarctica's winter sea ice has hit its third-lowest peak in nearly half a century of satellite monitoring, researchers said Tuesday, highlighting the growing influence of climate change on the planet's southern pole.
Barbara Marques, 38, thought she was about to get her green card during a recent appointment at a federal building in downtown, Los Angeles before ICE agents swooped in.
The billionaire’s last three cases are part of a growing global list from fossil fuel companies against government decisions to reduce carbon emissions Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Despite the Australian billionaire Clive Palmer’s self-proclaimed patriotism through the Trumpet of Patriots party, he has registered his mining company, Zeph Investments, in Singapore and claimed to be a Singaporean investor. He then used foreign investor rights in two trade agreements with Singapore to sue the Australian government for a total of about $420bn in four separate cases before an international investment tribunal. Palmer’s first claim was for $300bn after he lost a high court appeal against a Western...
Probably the most interesting polar bear photos you've ever seen.
Drone footage captures a group of polar bears living inside an abandoned research station on Russia's Kolyuchin Island.
A gunman, identified as Joshua Jahn, launched a targeted attack on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas, resulting in one detainee's death and two injuries. Jahn, who fatally shot himself, harbored deep animosity towards the US government and ICE agents, aiming to incite terror.
Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday continued excoriating Democrats and the left for fueling political violence, citing the shooting attack on ICE agents in Dallas as the latest example.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 130, Issue 18, 28 September 2025.
An Antarctic scientist has been found guilty of raping a female researcher as the pair rested in a rent during 'extreme' conditions on an expedition.
Ice does something unexpected to dissolving iron—and it could help explain the Arctic’s strange orange rivers.
Switzerland's Gries Glacier is retreating at an alarming pace as climate change accelerates unprecedented ice melt across the country. - REUTERS
ICE agents detained a Guatemalan family's autistic 5-year-old daughter to 'lure her father from the house' and pressure him into surrendering.
Can ice generate electricity? It’s not as far-fetched as you may think. Learn about the new research that “brings the vision of harnessing ice power one step closer to reality.”
Almost two decades ago, some scientists predicted that Arctic summer sea ice would ‘soon’ disappear. These predictions were mentioned by Al Gore and got a lot of press. However, they did not gain wide acceptance in the scientific community, and were swiftly disproven. Unsurprisingly, this still comes up a lot. Time for a deeper dive […] The post “But you said the ice was going to disappear in 10 years!” first appeared on RealClimate.
An expert team are resurrecting ice age ponds and finding rare species returning from a ‘perfect time capsule’ If you glanced into a green field and saw a yellow digger tearing into the turf, you might assume it was another site for new houses. But the two circle-shaped scars of dark soil on a Norfolk pasture are ghost ponds being brought back to life by an innovative and cheap form of nature restoration. “It looks awful now. ‘What have they done? It’s a disaster!’” says Carl Sayer, a professor of geography at UCL, who is dancing with glee around the bleak-looking, freshly dug hole. “The colonisation is so quick. Within a year, it is full of water plants. Within two years, it looks like it’s been there forever. It’s a spectacular recovery, and you’re truly recovering ancient assemblages of...
As part of the agency’s Artemis campaign, NASA has awarded Blue Origin of Kent, Washington, a CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) task order with an option to deliver a rover to the Moon’s South Pole region. NASA’s VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) will search for volatile resources, such as ice, on the lunar surface […]
Ice core records of atmospheric hydrogen reveal a huge rise in concentration since the Industrial Revolution which has contributed to global warming – and could sway the debate over hydrogen as a fuel
Chinese shipping companies are ramping up efforts to explore Arctic routes, aiming to explore alternatives that bypass traditional shipping chokepoints and cut transit times to Europe – an increasingly important export market amid unresolved tariff tensions with the US. SeaLegend Line, a Chinese shipping company founded in 2022, dispatched its first Arctic express vessel, the Istanbul Bridge, from Qingdao in Shandong province on Tuesday. It is expected to arrive in Gdansk, Poland, on October 16,...