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New clues as to how crew survived 1813 shipwreck in Alaska
Sep 10, 2015 (UPI)
In January 1813, just miles from its destination, the Russian-American Company frigate Neva floundered and sank. More than a third of the ship's crew were able ...
Icebreaker Healy first U.S. surface ship to reach North Pole on its own
Sep 10, 2015 (UPI)
The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy became the first U.S. surface ship to reach the North Pole without assistance on Saturday. Typically, icebreakers are accompan...
US icebreaker reaches North Pole
Sep 08, 2015 (AFP)
A US Coast Guard icebreaker has carved its way to the North Pole, becoming the first American surface ship to get to the top of the world by itself, officials s...
Polar bears may survive ice melt, with or without seals
Sep 08, 2015 (SPX)
As climate change accelerates ice melt in the Arctic, polar bears may find caribou and snow geese replacing seals as an important food source, shows a recent st...
Penguins wander far, but come home to mates: study
Sep 08, 2015 (AFP)
A species of remarkably faithful penguins may have found the secret to monogamy -- plenty of time spent very far apart. A group of southern rockhopper mums and ...
China Interested in Russian Icebreaker Technology
Sep 07, 2015 (Sputnik)
Alexey Rakhmanov, the head of Russia's United Shipbuilding Corporation, said that there is 'a great desire' to start technological cooperation in the area of bu...
Ice sheets may be more resilient than thought
Sep 07, 2015 (SPX)
Sea level rise poses one of the biggest threats to human systems in a globally warming world, potentially causing trillions of dollars' worth of damages to floo...
Hot summer fuels dangerous glacier melting in Central Asia
Sep 02, 2015 (AFP)
It began with a low rumbling noise. Then the rivers of mud poured down the mountainside over the Tajik village of Barssem -- the latest victim of shrinking glac...
NASA to Study Arctic Climate Change Ecosystem Impacts
Sep 01, 2015 (SPX)
As part of a broad effort to study the environmental and societal effects of climate change, NASA has begun a multi-year field campaign to investigate ecologica...
Adapt or die: Arctic animals cope with climate change
Sep 01, 2015 (AFP)
When it comes to coping with climate change in the Arctic region, which is warming at three times the global average, some animals are more equal than others. M...
Greenland Campaign Takes Flight to Measure Ice Sheet
Aug 31, 2015 (JPL)
Earlier this month, a NASA instrument nestled in the belly of a small plane flew over Greenland's ice sheet and the Arctic Ocean's icy waters. Flying above crev...
NASA's Summer Research on Sea Level Rise in Greenland
Aug 31, 2015 (JPL)
On Greenland's ice sheet, a vast icy landscape crisscrossed by turquoise rivers and dotted with meltwater lakes, a small cluster of orange camping tents popped ...
Tallest mountain in North America renamed: White House
Aug 30, 2015 (AFP)
Mount McKinley, the tallest of North America's mountains, is officially being renamed Denali, the White House said Sunday, on the eve of President Barack Obama'...
Obama to wage climate fight at Alaskan frontline
Aug 29, 2015 (AFP)
Alaska is often just a fuel stop for US presidents headed for Asia. But Barack Obama will spend three days in The Last Frontier next week and become the first s...
Debut of the global mix-master
Aug 27, 2015 (SPX)
Trekking across the high Canadian Arctic almost 20 years ago, Howie Scher had an unexpected encounter that helped fix the course of his career. An undergraduate...
Research sheds light on end of Snowball Earth period
Aug 25, 2015 (SPX)
The second ice age during the Cryogenian period was not followed by the sudden and chaotic melting-back of the ice as previously thought, but ended with regular...
Greenhouse gases caused glacial retreat during last Ice Age
Aug 25, 2015 (SPX)
A recalculation of the dates at which boulders were uncovered by melting glaciers at the end of the last Ice Age has conclusively shown that the glacial retreat...
As Ice Age ended, greenhouse gas rise was lead factor in melting of Earth's glaciers
Aug 25, 2015 (SPX)
A fresh look at some old rocks has solved a crucial mystery of the last Ice Age, yielding an important new finding that connects to the global retreat of glacie...
Russia must compensate Dutch over Greenpeace ship: international court
Aug 24, 2015 (AFP)
Russia must compensate the Netherlands over the 2013 seizure of Greenpeace's Arctic Sunrise ship during a protest against Arctic oil drilling, an international ...
Russia launches military drills in Arctic
Aug 24, 2015 (AFP)
Russia launched military exercises in the Arctic on Monday as it seeks to bolster claims to the region's vast hydrocarbon and mineral wealth. More than 1,000 so...
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