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18 May 2013
Northern Hemisphere losing last dry snow region, says CU study
"Greenland is warming rapidly, and such ice-sheet-wide, surface-melt events will occur more frequently over the next couple of decades." (University of Colorado Boulder)

17 May 2013
China gains observer status on the Arctic Council
"As lucrative oil reserves, rare mineral deposits and shipping lanes emerge amid the rapidly disappearing Arctic ice sheet, the eyes of many nations are turning north. This week, the eight member states of the Arctic Council decided at their meeting in Kiruna, Sweden, to admit six non-Arctic nations as observers, most notably China." (New Scientist)

16 May 2013
Research into carbon storage in Arctic tundra reveals unexpected insight into ecosystem resiliency
"We hypothesize that net soil carbon hasn't changed after 20 years because warming-accelerated decomposition has been offset by increased carbon inputs to the soil due to a combination of increased plant growth and changing soil conditions." (e! Science News)

16 May 2013
NASA satellite data helps pinpoint glaciers' role in sea level rise
"These smaller ice bodies are currently losing about as much mass as the ice sheets." (NASA)

15 May 2013
"It's happening now. . . The village is sinking"
"Residents of Newtok, Alaska, know they must evacuate, but who will pay the $130m cost of moving them?" (The Guardian, United Kingdom)

14 May 2013
Polar wander linked to climate change
"Melting ice in Greenland may have helped to shift the location of the North Pole." (Nature)

14 May 2013
"Best estimate" for impact of melting ice on sea level rise
"Researchers have published their most advanced calculation for the likely impact of melting ice on global sea levels. The EU-funded team says the ice sheets and glaciers could add 36.8cm to the oceans by 2100." (BBC News, United Kingdom)

14 May 2013
An undeniable truth?
"Up here in Alaska, I would say most people do not have an argument that climate change is happening because we see it . . . . The debate is not whether climate change is happening. The debate is over what's causing it." (The Guardian, United Kingdom)

13 May 2013
Arctic body comes in from the cold
"The Arctic Council, a once-obscure regional forum that had little to show for itself, has nations queuing to participate, as melting ice makes shipping, tourism and resource extraction a reality in the nebulously delineated region." (The Wall Street Journal)

13 May 2013
Study: Mount Everest losing its cloak of ice and snow as world warms
"Glaciers on Mount Everest and the national park surrounding it have shrunk by 13 percent in the last 50 years and the snow line has shifted upward by 590 feet." (United Press International)

13 May 2013
U.S. national strategy for the Arctic region: strong foothold or on thin ice?
"Arctic policy observers and stakeholders have long called on the U.S. to start thinking strategically about this rapidly changing and increasingly important region." (The Arctic Institute)

13 May 2013
America's first climate refugees: One family's great escape
"Jeff and Lisa Charles—and their six children—lead the evacuation of Newtok, Alaska to their new home in Mertarvik." (The Guardian, United Kingdom)

12 May 2013
Creeping ice destroys homes in Manitoba, Canada, and Minnesota, U.S.
"According to emergency officials, a total of seven homes in Ochre Breach were "literally crushed" by the ice that rose up within minutes pushed by strong winds." (The Herald Sun, Australia)

11 May 2013
Pole-land
"Though the amount of ice on the plateau of Tibet and its surrounding mountains, such as the Himalayas, Karakoram and Pamirs, is a lot smaller than that at the poles, it is still huge." (The Economist)

8 May 2013
The effects of climate change on iceberg production by Greenland glaciers
"Research into the four major Greenland fast-flowing glaciers has enabled scientists to show that while these glaciers may show several bursts of retreat and periods of high iceberg formation in future, the rapid acceleration seen in recent years is unlikely to continue unchecked." (Phys.Org)

8 May 2013
Pictures: When snow and ice meet lava
"Ben Edwards, a National Geographic grantee, studies volcanoes covered with snow and ice to figure out how previous ice ages have waxed and waned, and how Earth's climate has changed." (National Geographic)

6 May 2013
Scientists warn carbon dioxide emissions speeding up Arctic Ocean acidification
"Owing to the large quantities of freshwater supplied from rivers and melting ice, the Arctic Ocean is less effective at chemically neutralizing carbon dioxide's acidifying effects, and this input is increasing with climate warming. In addition, the Arctic Ocean is cold, which favors the transfer of carbon dioxide from the air into the ocean." (Alaska Dispatch)

2 May 2013
Freak May snowstorm is weather, not climate
"The disappearance of Arctic sea ice seems to be affecting the jet stream, which in turn has contributed to Minnesota's seemingly endless winter." (Minnesota Public Radio)

1 May 2013
Water supply assured despite shrinking glaciers
"Although Switzerland's glaciers are retreating, water supplies will remain abundant in the coming decades, according to computer modeling performed by institutes belonging to the country's two Federal Institutes of Technology (ETH)." (SwissInfo.ch)

1 May 2013
NASA Rover prototype set to explore Greenland Ice Sheet
"The robot known as GROVER, which stands for both Greenland Rover and Goddard Remotely Operated Vehicle for Exploration and Research, will roam the frigid landscape collecting measurements to help scientists better understand changes in the massive ice sheet." (NASA)

1 May 2013
The Antarctic's ice paradox
"The short answer is that the ice around Antarctica is growing, but the ice on the continent is shrinking, and both are a result of climate change. Just how much it's changing and how fast depends on where you look." (PBS News Hour)

1 May 2013
Experts discuss impact of Glacier's retreating ice
"Grinnell Glacier on the park's east side once measured 710 acres. It is now about 150 acres—clinging to the shaded north face of Mount Gould. The newly formed lake at its toe is nearly 190 feet deep." (Whitefish Pilot)

30 April 2013
Glacier-covered volcano reveals climate secrets
"When a volcano erupts underneath a glacier, a subglacial volcano can form. These formations, called tuyas, can help researchers piece together details on how the Earth's climate has changed over the course of its history." (LiveScience.com)

30 April 2013
NASA's Arctic IceBridge campaign closes with much success
"During this year's campaign, the team measured sea ice, mapped sub-ice bedrock and gathered data on Greenland's glaciers by flying science missions out of Thule Air Base and Kangerlussuaq in Germany." (RedOrbit.com)

29 April 2013
Javelin-hurling scientists measure Antarctic glacier melt
"The javelins will automatically record and relay their positions for two to three years, allowing researchers to figure out how quickly the glacier is flowing into the ocean." (LiveScience.com)

29 April 2013
Alaskan researchers cross North by snowmobile
"Kenji Yoshikawa and his assistant Ulli Neumann stopped in nine Nunavut communities to drill permafrost monitoring stations into the ground. They put the monitoring stations at local schools." (CBC News, Canada)

29 April 2013
Conserve glaciers for water supply, say experts
"Our glaciers contribute volume of water to the Indus River that runs across the country and agriculture and ecology of Pakistan depends on the smooth flow of water in all seasons." (Daily Times, Pakistan)

26 April 2013
Land o' lakes: Melting glaciers transform alpine landscape
"Climate change is dramatically altering the Swiss Alps, where hundreds of bodies of water are being created by melting glaciers. Though the lakes can attract tourists and even generate electricity, local residents also fear catastrophic tidal waves." (Spiegel Online, Germany)

22 April 2013
Bah, giant humbugs: Incredible pictures of icebergs with black, blue, and green stripes
"The blue stripes are created when gaps in the icebergs fill with melt water which freezes, while green veins are left when seawater rich with algae freezes to the bottom of the bergs." (Dail Mail, United Kingdom)

22 April 2013
Climate change sends India's apple farmers up to the Himalayas
"A recent study found that because of warmer temperatures and reduced snowfall, apple-growing areas in low-altitude areas like Solan reduced by as much as 77 percent between 1981 and 2007." (The Christian Science Monitor)

22 April 2013
Breaking the ice: Earthquakes trigger Antarctic "icequakes"
"Scientists discovered that big earthquakes, including Japan's 2011 Tohoku quake and Chile's 2010 Maule temblor, set off icequakes across Antarctica, just as they triggered earthquakes on land." (LiveScience.com)

21 April 2013
Tracking Greenland's fast-melting ice sheets
"The better we can estimate the current rate of ice sheet melting, the better we can explain why the sea level is rising as it is now." (The Columbus Dispatch)

20 April 2013
International effort to stop stricken Chinese trawler leaking oil in Antarctica
"A Chilean military tugboat was heading to Antarctica to prevent an environmental disaster by towing to safety a Chinese fishing ship that caught fire and began to drift dangerously near glaciers." (South China Morning Post)

19 April 2013
US looks at deeper Arctic role
"As Arctic waters melt in a trend blamed on global warming, minerals vital in global communications equipment as well as oil and gas once hidden under layers of permafrost are now becoming more accessible." (PerthNow.com.au, Australia)

18 April 2013
An SwRI-led remote sensing study quantifies permafrost degradation in Arctic Alaskan wetlands
"Analysis comparing time-lapsed, high-resolution satellite imagery of the Ahnewetut Wetlands in Kobuk Valley National Park, Alaska, revealed an accelerated loss of surface water in shallow thaw lakes and ponds over a recent 27-year period compared to the preceding 27-year timespan." (The Wall Street Journal)

17 April 2013
Antarctic Peninsula climate reconstruction
"A new 1,000-year Antarctic Peninsula climate reconstruction shows that summer ice melting has intensified almost ten-fold, and mostly since the mid 20th century." (Environmental News Network)

17 April 2013
Northern sea ice continues its thinning trend
"Robust multiyear ice has been largely replaced by first-year sea ice, which comes from seawater that freezes over a single winter. Like ice cubes removed from the freezer before fully solidifying, delicate pieces of first-year ice can quickly disappear in warming waters." (InsideScience.org)