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Arctic sea ice reaches maximum extent for 2019

March 20, 2019

Arctic sea ice likely reached its maximum extent for the year at 5.71 million square miles, effectively tied for seventh lowest in the 40-year satellite record.

Marine organisms face fatal horizon in Southern Ocean

March 11, 2019

Marine microorganisms in the Southern Ocean may find themselves in a deadly vise grip by century鈥檚 end as ocean acidification creates a shallower horizon for life.

Arctic change has widespread impacts

March 7, 2019

As the Arctic warms faster than the rest of the globe, permafrost, land ice and sea ice are disappearing at unprecedented rates.

An artist's imagining of a small mammal from the Late Cretaceous

Ancient 鈥榥ight mouse鈥� faced four months of winter darkness

Feb. 18, 2019

Paleontologists working on a steep river bank in Alaska have discovered fossil evidence of the northernmost marsupial known to science.

Your home is a hidden source of air pollution

Feb. 17, 2019

Cooking, cleaning and other routine household activities generate significant levels of chemicals inside the average home, leading to indoor air quality levels on par with a polluted major city.

An image of a tree in a field depicting climate change and drought.

Reticent experts still have climate advocacy choices, scholars say

Feb. 13, 2019

Scientists can be climate advocates without tarring reputations, CU Boulder researchers contend.

Ice shelves buckle under weight of meltwater lakes

Feb. 13, 2019

CIRES scientists have directly observed an Antarctic ice shelf bending under the weight of ponding meltwater on top, a phenomenon that may have triggered the 2002 collapse of the Larsen B ice shelf.

Sand from glacial melt could be Greenland鈥檚 economic salvation

Feb. 11, 2019

As climate change melts Greenland鈥檚 glaciers and deposits more river sediment on its shores, international researchers have identified an unforeseen economic opportunity: exporting excess sand and gravel abroad.

A water quality mystery, solved in Antarctica

Feb. 1, 2019

Scientists have developed a possible answer to a longstanding mystery about the chemistry of streamflow, which may have broad implications for watersheds and water quality around the world.

A landscape unseen in over 40,000 years

Jan. 25, 2019

Glacial retreat in the Canadian Arctic has uncovered landscapes that haven鈥檛 been ice-free in more than 40,000 years, and the region may be experiencing its warmest century in 115,000 years.

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