When sea ice melts, it can lead to faster warming because water absorbs more heat than ice does. That’s one of more than 25 climate feedback loops found in a recent study from Oregon State ...

Feedback loops identified in a study could heat the Earth beyond anything humans can control, scientists have found. A team of international scientists, including ones from Oregon State University ...

The heat that hit Svalbard in February was so intense that scientists could dig into the ground with spoons, "like it was ...

All feedback loops were divided into three categories: physical, such as the effects of water vapor on climate; biological, which includes events like forest dieback; and human, such as our ...

The Arctic has long been one of the coldest places on Earth. It’s a region of ice, snow, and frozen ground, where temperatures usually stay well below freezing. But today, something very strange—and ...

University of California - Santa Barbara. "A prehistoric climate feedback loop." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 22 August 2022. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2022 / 08 / 220822174916.htm>.

Once that water was gone, the summer sun began to bake the ground and heat the air. There was nothing else to absorb the sun’s energy, the weather stayed hot because, well, the sun is hot.

Previous studies have shown that as glaciers melt, the water flows underneath them and out to sea – a process that enhances glacial melting and ice loss. Friday’s study factored that feedback ...