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Research into carbon storage in Arctic tundra reveals unexpected insight into ecosystem resiliencySanta Barbara CA (SPX) May 17, 2013 When UC Santa Barbara doctoral student Seeta Sistla and her adviser, environmental studies professor Josh Schimel, went north not long ago to study how long-term warming in the Arctic affects carbon storage, they had made certain assumptions. "We expected that because of the long-term warming, we would have lost carbon stored in the soil to the atmosphere," said Schimel. The gradual warming, he explained, would accelerate decomposition on the upper layers of what would have previously been frozen ... read more |
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 Why we need to put the fish back into fisheries Heat-related deaths in Manhattan projected to rise Climate change may have little impact on tropical lizards LLNL scientist finds topography of Eastern Seaboard muddles ancient sea level changes Parasitic wasps use calcium pump to block fruit fly immunity Storm shelters few in 'Tornado Alley' | .. |
 Scientists find extensive glacial retreat in Mount Everest region Researchers taking a new look at the snow and ice covering Mount Everest and the national park that surrounds it are finding abundant evidence that the world's tallest peak is shedding its frozen cl ... more | .. |
 Study: Mount Everest losing its cloak of ice and snow as world warms A study of snow and ice on Mount Everest shows the world's highest mountain peak is shedding its frozen cloak as glaciers retreat with warming, researchers say. ... more | .. |
 The effect of climate change on iceberg production by Greenland glaciers While the impact of climate change on the surface of the Greenland ice sheet has been widely studied, a clear understanding of the key process of iceberg production has eluded researchers for many y ... more | .. |
 Ice-free Arctic may be in our future Analyses of the longest continental sediment core ever collected in the Arctic, recently completed by an international team led by Julie Brigham-Grette of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, pr ... more |
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 Climate Record From Bottom of Russian Lake Shows Arctic Was Warmer Millions of Years Ago The Arctic was very warm during a period roughly 3.5 to 2 million years ago - a time when research suggests that the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was roughly comparable to today's - lea ... more | .. |
 Dietary flexibility may have helped some large predators survive after last ice age During the late Pleistocene, a remarkably diverse assemblage of large-bodied mammals inhabited the "mammoth steppe," a cold and dry yet productive environment that extended from western Europe throu ... more | .. |
 Ice wall crashes into Canada cottages Winds whipped up a wall of ice into a lakeside community in Canada's western Manitoba province, destroying or damaging dozens of cottages over the weekend, officials said Monday. ... more | .. |
 NATO won't up presence in the Arctic: chief NATO has no plans to increase its presence in the Arctic, Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Wednesday despite numerous countries' keen interest in the region's vast natural resources. ... more |
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 Brazil rebuilding Antarctic base gutted by fire Brazil is rebuilding its major Antarctic research base, gutted in a fire more than a year ago, but millions of dollars worth of scientific data acquired over the years will be impossible to recover. ... more | .. |
 Scientists sound alarm at Arctic Ocean's rapid acidification Scientists expressed alarm on Monday over the rapid acidification of the Arctic Ocean caused by carbon dioxide emissions, which could have dire consequences on the region's fragile ecosystem. ... more | .. |
 NASA's IceBridge Finishing Up Successful Arctic Campaign With several weeks of science flights in the books, researchers with NASA's Operation IceBridge are on the way to completing another successful campaign to maintain and expand a dataset that started ... more | .. |
 UN sounds alarm over record Arctic ice melt The Arctic's sea ice melted at a record pace in 2012, the ninth-hottest year on record, compounding concerns about climate change underscored by extreme weather such as Hurricane Sandy, the UN weather agency said Thursday. ... more |
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 EU spars with Canada, Norway at WTO over seal ban The European Union locked horns Monday with Canada and Norway at the World Trade Organisation over its hotly contested ban on the import and sale of seal products. ... more | .. |
 Discovered: A mammal and bug food co-op in the High Arctic University of Alberta researchers were certainly surprised when they discovered the unusual response of pikas to patches of vegetation that had previously been grazed on by caterpillars from a speci ... more | .. |
EU court maintains seal fur ban An EU court in a much-anticipated ruling Thursday upheld a 2010 ban on seal products, throwing out an appeal by fur traders including native Inuit from Canada and Greenland, and Scottish sporran-makers. ... more | .. |
 Sea stalactites provide clues to origin of life Life on Earth may have originated not in warm tropical seas, but with weird tubes of ice - sometimes called "sea stalactites" - that grow downward into cold seawater near the Earth's poles, scientis ... more |
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 Ecuador warns satellite could hit rocket remains Asteroid Sample Return Mission Moves into Development Russia designs reusable spacecraft good for as many as five missions RNA capable of catalyzing electron transfer on early earth with iron's help Ground and Space-based Observations Unveil Future of Sun A Roadmap for the Future of Astrobiology | .. |
 Chinese ship sinks off Antarctica: Chile A Chinese refrigerator ship that caught fire last week off Antarctica has sunk, the Chilean navy announced. ... more | .. |
 Age matters to Antarctic clams A new study of Antarctic clams reveals that age matters when it comes to adapting to the effects of climate change. The research provides new insight and understanding of the likely impact of predic ... more | .. |
Pleas for US to name first ambassador to Arctic Top US diplomat John Kerry said Thursday he would mull ways to deepen US engagement in the Arctic amid pleas from lawmakers to name America's first ambassador to the resource-rich region. ... more | .. |
 Fossils provide insight into origin of unique Antarctic ecosystem The circum-Antarctic Southern Ocean is an important region for global marine food webs and carbon cycling because of sea-ice formation and its unique plankton ecosystem. The origin of its ecosystems ... more |
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 Prince Harry to trek to South Pole with wounded troops Britain's Prince Harry is to join a team of wounded war veterans in a race to the South Pole, he announced on Friday. ... more | .. |
 An SwRI-led remote-sensing study quantifies permafrost degradation in Arctic Alaskan wetlands A team of geoscientists from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) using newly available remote-sensing technology has achieved unprecedented detail in quantifying subtle, long-period changes in the w ... more | .. |
 Recent climate, glacier changes in Antarctica at the 'upper bound' of normal In the last few decades, glaciers at the edge of the icy continent of Antarctica have been thinning, and research has shown the rate of thinning has accelerated and contributed significantly to sea ... more | .. |
 New insight into accelerating summer ice melt on the Antarctic Peninsula A new 1000-year Antarctic Peninsula climate reconstruction shows that summer ice melting has intensified almost ten-fold, and mostly since the mid 20th Century. Summer ice melt affects the stability ... more |
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