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Researchers say 650 tonnes on order for Paris Games is a potential stress on local and regional resources

First, they came for your energy, then your meat, car, dishwasher, 2 1/2 hour plane flights, then your pizza & now… YOUR ICE!

Listening to nature's music can teach us a lot about the ecosystem, whether it's a forest or a coral reef. For example, when teeming with marine life, a healthy coral reef system produces a variety of sounds such as whoop,...

New research has examined the reason behind the rapid retreat of Antarctic sea ice. University of Washington researchers established that the puzzling phenomenon can be explained by simple physics.[...]

Melting permafrost will play a major role in shaping Earth's future. Recent research published in Nature Communications has established that alpine permafrost will melt much faster than arctic permafrost under current...

On Greenland’s highest summit, snow is the norm. But on the weekend of August 14-15, it rained. A lot. Seven billion tons of water hit the ice sheet for the heaviest rainfall since researchers started keeping...

A new study published in Science Advances has revealed that the Pine Island Glacier's ice shelf is breaking away at a rate much faster than previously measured...

The migration cycle of harp seals is greatly threatened following a significant decrease in sea ice cover in Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence. This year, the gulf has experienced its lowest amount sea ice since measuring began....

Terrible hurricanes in the summer and temperatures now plunging to the lowest they’ve been in decades in much of the U.S. — is all this bad weather just bad luck? Not according to climate scientists, who say this deadly...

For the first time since 1963, parts of the River Thames were frozen over as witnesses spotted seagulls perching on the icy surface in Teddington. The River Great Ouse in Cambridgeshire was also frozen over leaving boats...

Guest essay by Eric Worrall As China struggles with a surge in energy demand brought on by their economic recovery and a cold snap, the reputation of wind power has…

A new study, published in the journal PLoS One, has revealed that there is a significant relationship between increased drownings in the winter and climate change...

The Milne Ice Shelf, the largest remaining intact ice shelf in Canada, has collapsed. According to researchers studying the Milne Ice Shelf, the ice shelf collapsed in just two days at the end of July and lost about 40% of...

Nearly all of the text of this article on an interesting ice core proxy series (James Ross Island) from the Antarctic Peninsula was written in June 2014, but not finished at the time for reasons that I don’t recall. ...

University of Central Florida The 49ers who panned for gold during California’s Gold Rush didn’t really know where they might strike it rich...