Cold winters caused by warmer summers, research suggests
ScienceDaily.com | 12 Jan 2012
Scientists have offered up a convincing explanation for the harsh winters recently experienced in the Northern hemisphere: increasing temperatures and melting ice in the Arctic regions creating more snowfall in the autumn months at lower latitudes.
 Global Warming | Ice Cap and Glacial Melting

Russian river water unexpected culprit behind Arctic freshening, researchers find
ScienceDaily.com | 04 Jan 2012
A hemisphere-wide phenomenon -- and not just regional forces -- has caused record-breaking amounts of freshwater to accumulate in the Arctic's Beaufort Sea, researchers have found.
 Climate Change | Ice Cap and Glacial Melting

2010 spike in Greenland ice loss lifted bedrock, GPS reveals
ScienceDaily.com | 09 Dec 2011
An unusually hot melting season in 2010 accelerated ice loss in southern Greenland by 100 billion tons - and large portions of the island's bedrock rose an additional quarter of an inch in response. That's the finding from a network of nearly 50 GPS stations planted along the Greenland coast to measure the bedrock's natural response to the ever-diminishing weight of ice above it.
 Climate Change | Global Warming | Ice Cap and Glacial Melting

Glaciers melting at fastest rate in 350 years, study finds
The Independent | 03 Apr 2011
Some mountain glaciers are melting up to 100 times faster than at any time in the past 350 years.
 Climate Change | Ice Cap and Glacial Melting | Research

Rare dinosaur found in Canada's oil sands
Reuters | 25 Mar 2011
The Canadian oil sands, a vast expanse of tar and sand being mined for crude oil, yielded treasure of another kind this week when an oil company worker unearthed a 110-million-year-old dinosaur fossil that wasn't supposed to be there.
 Canada | Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts | Climate Change Science | Ice Cap and Glacial Melting | Industry

Prepare for Arctic struggle as climate changes, US navy warned
Guardian Unlimited | 10 Mar 2011
Climate change could upset the delicate security balance in the Arctic, warns National Academy of Sciences report America urgently needs to build up its military readiness in the Arctic where melting summer sea ice is setting up a global struggle for resources, a study prepared for the US navy has...
 Arctic Ocean | Climate Change | Ice Cap and Glacial Melting

Deforestation's impact on Mount Kilimanjaro calculated
ScienceDaily.com | 05 Mar 2011
The impact that local deforestation might have on the snowcap and glaciers atop Mount Kilimanjaro are being calculated using regional climate models and data from NASA satellites.
 Tanzania | United Republic of | Climate Change Science | Greenhouse Gas Emissions | Ice Cap and Glacial Melting

Some Antarctic ice is forming from bottom
ScienceDaily.com | 03 Mar 2011
Scientists working in the remotest part of Antarctica have discovered that liquid water locked deep under the continent's coat of ice regularly thaws and refreezes to the bottom, creating as much as half the thickness of the ice in places, and actively modifying its structure. The finding, which turns common perceptions of glacial formation upside down, could reshape scientists' understanding of how the ice sheet expands and moves, and how it might react to warming climate, they say.
 Antarctica | Climate Change | Ice Cap and Glacial Melting | Research

Researchers map out ice sheets shrinking during Ice Age
ScienceDaily.com | 11 Feb 2011
A set of maps have illustrated, for the first time, how our last British ice sheet shrunk during the Ice Age. Experts developed the maps to understand what effect the current shrinking of ice sheets in parts of the Antarctic and Greenland will have on the speed of sea level rise.
 Antarctica | Arctic Ocean | United Kingdom | Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts | Climate Change Science | Ice Cap and Glacial Melting

Arctic current warmer than for 2,000 years: study
Reuters | 28 Jan 2011
A North Atlantic current flowing into the Arctic Ocean is warmer than for at least 2,000 years in a sign that global warming is likely to bring ice-free seas around the North Pole in summers, a study showed.
 Arctic Ocean | Climate Change | Global Warming | Ice Cap and Glacial Melting | Research