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Case closed, says study: C02 melted Ice Age glaciers
Aug 21, 2015 (AFP)
Greenhouse gases were the driving force behind global glacier retreat at the end of the last Ice Age, echoing current climate change, according to a study publi...
Most comprehensive projections for West Antarctica's future revealed
Aug 19, 2015 (SPX)
A new international study is the first to use a high-resolution, large-scale computer model to estimate how much ice the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could lose ove...
Canada's arctic patrol boats getting BAE Systems guns
Aug 19, 2015 (UPI)
BAE Systems is to supply as many as six modified 25mm Mk 38 Machine Gun Systems for Royal Canadian Navy patrol vessels. The contract was issued by Irving Shipbu...
On warmer Earth, most of Arctic may remove, not add, methane
Aug 18, 2015 (SPX)
In addition to melting icecaps and imperiled wildlife, a significant concern among scientists is that higher Arctic temperatures brought about by climate change...
Substantial glacier ice loss in Central Asia's largest mountain range
Aug 18, 2015 (SPX)
Glaciers in Central Asia experience substantial losses in glacier mass and area. Along the Tien Shan, Central Asia's largest mountain range, glaciers have lost ...
Extreme diving, crucial to Arctic research
Aug 16, 2015 (AFP)
How do algae react to the warming of the Arctic Ocean? How is it affecting wildlife in the fjords? To find answers, researchers rely heavily on divers who brave...
Heat release from stagnant deep sea helped end last Ice Age
Aug 14, 2015 (SPX)
The build-up and subsequent release of warm, stagnant water from the deep Arctic Ocean and Nordic Seas played a role in ending the last Ice Age within the Arcti...
Glacial meltwater in Antarctica nourishes feeding 'hot spots'
Aug 11, 2015 (UPI)
Rising temperatures and shrinking polar ice cpas are worrisome longterm trends for most species, including fish and marine mammals. But sea life also benefits t...
Russia to create multimillion dollar Arctic monitoring system by 2025
Aug 10, 2015 (Sputnik)
An integrated system to monitor conditions in the Arctic, including both civilian and military segments, will be created in Russia by 2025, developer RTI System...
Scientists and bears: uneasy Arctic neighbours
Aug 09, 2015 (AFP)
Residents of the remote Arctic settlement of Ny-Alesund never lock their homes -- happy to sacrifice privacy for the option of barging through the nearest door ...
'Snowball Earth' Might Be Slushy
Aug 05, 2015 (SPX)
Imagine a world without liquid water - just solid ice in all directions. It would certainly not be a place that most life forms would like to live. And yet our ...
Russia files UN claim over vast swathe of Arctic
Aug 04, 2015 (AFP)
Russia pressed a claim at the United Nations Tuesday for an additional 1.2 million square kilometres (463,000 square miles) of Arctic shelf, stepping up a race ...
Study calculates the speed of ice formation
Aug 04, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers at Princeton University have for the first time directly calculated the rate at which water crystallizes into ice in a realistic computer model of w...
Glaciers melt faster than ever
Aug 04, 2015 (SPX)
The World Glacier Monitoring Service, domiciled at the University of Zurich, has compiled worldwide data on glacier changes for more than 120 years. Together wi...
Arctic's Soviet-era ghost town seeing revival
Aug 02, 2015 (AFP)
A man in a chapka hat and black coat, rifle slung over a shoulder, idles on the pontoon as a group of tourists sail in to visit Arctic oddity, Pyramiden, a Sovi...
Tracking the retreat of Arctic ice
Aug 02, 2015 (AFP)
Not so long ago, skeleton staff overwintering at the Ny-Alesund research centre could walk on the Arctic town's frozen bay and race their snow mobiles across it...
New study exposes negative effects of climate change on Antarctic fish
Aug 01, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists at University of California Davis and San Francisco State University have discovered that the combination of elevated levels of carbon dioxide and an...
A cataclysmic event of a certain age
Jul 29, 2015 (SPX)
At the end of the Pleistocene period, some 13,000 years ago a cosmic impact triggered an abrupt cooling episode that earth scientists refer to as the Younger Dr...
Mammoths killed by abrupt climate change
Jul 28, 2015 (SPX)
New research has revealed abrupt warming, that closely resembles the rapid man-made warming occurring today, has repeatedly played a key role in mass extinction...
Iceland protests five-nation fishing deal in Arctic
Jul 24, 2015 (AFP)
Iceland has protested at a five-nation accord to ban unregulated fishing around the North Pole and says it will not be bound by the deal. The foreign ministry i...
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