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Two people in orange snowsuits kneel down in a snowy landscape in front of a stationary helicopter.
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Is Your Shampoo Washing Up in Antarctica?

Javier Barbuzano, Science Writer by Javier Barbuzano 3 June 20253 June 2025

Researchers have found chemicals from personal care products like shampoo, deodorant, and laundry soap in Antarctic snow.

A large iceberg floats in the sea.
Posted inResearch & Developments

NOAA Halts Maintenance of Key Arctic Data at National Snow and Ice Data Center

by Grace van Deelen 8 May 20258 May 2025

The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) may no longer actively maintain or update some of its snow and ice data products after losing support from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, according to a 6 May announcement.

Maps of the study region.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Nonlinear Dynamics May Lead to Faster Retreat of Antarctic Ice

by Minghua Zhang 14 April 202514 April 2025

The Antarctic ice sheet behaves like a non-Newtonian fluid and may be more nonlinear than previously thought. This impacts its future stability and requires revisions to predictions of sea level rise.

Aerial view of a group of caribou trotting across snowy ground
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Snowmelt Sends Caribou Packing

by K. R. Callaway 10 December 202410 December 2024

Researchers compared caribou tracking data with satellite observations to learn whether snowpack conditions trigger the animals’ arduous annual migration.

A photo taken from the deck of a cruise ship in Antarctica, featuring people bundled in jackets looking up at a snowy mountain.
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Tourism and Distant Fires Affect Antarctica’s Black Carbon Levels

by Larissa G. Capella 18 November 202418 November 2024

Tourism and biomass burning in the Southern Hemisphere are boosting black carbon levels and accelerating ice melt in Antarctica.

Floating ice is seen in the foreground, and an ominous storm cloud lies over a distant mountain range.
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Rain Comes to the Arctic, With a Cascade of Troubling Changes

by Ed Struzik 14 May 202414 May 2024

Rain used to be rare in the Arctic, but as the region warms, so-called rain-on-snow events are becoming more common. The rains accelerate ice loss, trigger flooding, landslides, and avalanches, and create problems for wildlife and the Indigenous people who depend on them.

A scientist kneels in the snow with instruments to measure it with a wide view of the Chugach Mountains.
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Changing Snowpack Inspires New Measurement

by Amy Mayer 3 May 20243 May 2024

Climate change is bringing increased variability to annual snowfall, which affects how much water is stored for ecosystem and human use.

A satellite view of a western disturbance over India
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Shifting Winter Storms Bring More Flooding to India

Rishika Pardikar, Science Writer by Rishika Pardikar 1 May 20242 May 2024

Western disturbances are hanging out over India for longer, adversely affecting water security in the country.

Two glass enclosures among a forest of spruce trees in the snow
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Warming Experiment Explores Consequences of Diminished Snow

Aaron Sidder, freelance science writer by Aaron Sidder 1 April 20247 August 2024

The SPRUCE ecosystem in northern Minnesota offered a setting to research exactly how a snowy environment responds to rising temperatures.

A house covered in several feet of snow
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California Mountains Face Weather Whiplash

by Andrew Chapman 28 March 202428 March 2024

Last month’s massive snowstorm in the Sierra Nevada followed a dry start to winter. Such extremes in precipitation may become the norm.

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