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A complex and long mission during which data and samples will be collected in order to analyze the condition of the polar ice cap in places never before reached by land and explored before.

A Turkish scientist, selected as one of the 100 women in the Polar Sciences Project, has brought attention to the harm caused by sea urchins in the Kelp...

ROME, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- Arctic glaciers are "losing their memories" of climate history due to global warming, an international study coordinated by Italy's National Research Council (CNR) has revealed.

For the last 15 years, local temperatures have dropped on mountains like Mount Everest during warmer months. It could slow glacial melt, scientists say.

For the last 15 years, local temperatures have dropped on mountains like Mount Everest during warmer months. It could slow glacial melt, scientists say.

The Drake Passage, between the southern tip of South America and Antarctic, is infamous as one of the most dangerous journeys on the planet. But why is it so rough – and how can you cross safely?

As part of the Ice Memory initiative, PSI researchers, with colleagues from the University of Fribourg and Ca' Foscari University of Venice as well as the Institute of Polar Sciences of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), analyzed ice cores drilled in 2018 and 2020 from the Corbassière glacier at Grand Combin in the canton of Valais.

Melting of glaciers due to climate change has destroyed climate records. Read more here. Global warming has caused widespread surface lowering of mountain glaciers, revealing that they are no longer appropriate for a climate archive.

The Corbassière glacier at the Grand Combin in canton Valais is melting faster than previously thought, says a study by Swiss and Italian scientists.