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An international team of polar ecologists, geographers, and marine scientists has found that global warming has, over the ...

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However, Antarctic sea ice, which surrounds the south pole, has shrunk to a near-record low. On 25 February, the Antarctic sea ice reached its minimum extent for the year, covering 722,000 sq miles (1 ...

Arctic sea ice has recorded its smallest winter peak extent since satellite records began 47 years ago, new data reveals.

Greenland has gained more than 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) of new coastline—not due to tectonic uplift, land reclamation, ...

I wrote about the predicted winter North American precipitation pattern from a group of state-of-the-art computer forecast ...

Low pressure systems (often called cyclones) include midlatitude cyclones, monsoon lows, and tropical cyclones, and are responsible for much of the rainfall and strong winds we experience. Their ...

Low pressure systems (often called cyclones) include midlatitude cyclones, monsoon lows, and tropical cyclones, and are responsible for much of the rainfall and strong winds we experience. Their ...

The Beaufort Gyre, an important ocean current, is at risk of disappearing this century because of climate change, scientists ...