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Scientists from Canada, Denmark, and Australia teamed up with a "goal of drilling and retrieving a [613-meter] deep ice core" ...
A new study finds that if global warming exceeds the Paris Climate Agreement targets, the non-polar glacier mass will diminish significantly. However, if warming is limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius, at ...
Skincare hacks are everywhere—but how many of them are actually effective? While some go viral for the wrong reasons, a handful of popular tricks have earned their place in real routines for ...
“Toner helps remove excess oils on the skin to help prepare it for applying products like serums and moisturizers,” says Dr. Ryan Turner, a board-certified dermatologist based in New York Cit ...
Mammoths and giant ground sloths migrated poleward. And the ice caps covering the Arctic and Antarctica began to melt, raising sea levels around the world. A vast array of ancient evidence ...
The research by an international team of sea level and polar ice experts suggests that limiting warming to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) above the pre-industrial temperature—the ...
Research led by Durham University, UK, suggests the target should instead be closer to 1°C to avoid significant losses from the polar ice sheets and prevent a further acceleration in sea level rise.
These words include greenout, icefish, afterborn and sea ice. Climatologists, geographers, biologists and ocean scientists each have their own ideas of what constitutes the Arctic and the Antarctic.
Swiss researcher Achille Capelli has found an open-air laboratory in Alaska. He is studying the polar ice shelf and is worried to see the impact of climate change. Unlike other Swiss scientists ...
More than a decade after the viral trend first got its start, thousands of people are dusting off their buckets and dumping ice water on their heads all over again—but this time, for mental health.
Liz Morris on Antarctic adventures and the melting polar ice sheets Liz Morris discusses being in the first wave of UK women scientists to work in Antarctica. 28 mins The Life Scientific ...
A longtime powerhouse in the U.S. Coast Guard fleet, the Coast Guard Cutter Polar Sea (WAGB-11) is a 399-foot vessel weighing more than 10,000 tons and engineered to tackle some of the harshest ...