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Iceland rises as its glaciers melt from climate change
Feb 01, 2015 (SPX)
The Earth's crust under Iceland is rebounding as global warming melts the island's great ice caps, a University of Arizona-led team reports in an upcoming issue...
Arctic sea ice loss expected to be bumpy in the short term
Jan 29, 2015 (SPX)
Arctic sea ice extent plunged precipitously from 2001 to 2007, then barely budged between 2007 and 2013. Even in a warming world, researchers should expect such...
Arctic ice cap slides into the ocean
Jan 28, 2015 (SPX)
Satellite images have revealed that a remote Arctic ice cap has thinned by more than 50 metres since 2012 - about one sixth of its original thickness - and that...
Murkowski: Obama's Alaska move an act of war
Jan 26, 2015 (UPI)
The Obama administration has declared war on the economic future of Alaska by proposing new acreage as protected wilderness, congressional leaders said. The Whi...
Obama recommends extended wilderness zone in Alaska
Jan 25, 2015 (AFP)
US President Barack Obama said Sunday he would recommend a large swath of Alaska be designated as wilderness, the highest level of federal protection, in a move...
Antarctic drill team first to reach where ice, ocean and land converge
Jan 23, 2015 (SPX)
Using a specially designed hot-water drill to cleanly bore through a half mile of ice, a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded team of researchers has become...
UNL drillers help make new Antarctic discoveries
Jan 23, 2015 (SPX)
Using a hot-water drill and an underwater robotic vehicle designed, built and operated by a University of Nebraska-Lincoln engineering team, scientists have mad...
Scientists find translucent fish living under Antarctic ice shelf
Jan 22, 2015 (UPI)
It shouldn't be all that surprising at this point -- living organisms defying the odds, that is. Life continues to turn up in the oddest places. This time, it's...
Giant atmospheric rivers add mass to Antarctica's ice sheet
Jan 21, 2015 (SPX)
Extreme weather phenomena called atmospheric rivers were behind intense snowstorms recorded in 2009 and 2011 in East Antarctica. The resulting snow accumulation...
Canada to stage helicopter wolf hunt to save caribou
Jan 16, 2015 (AFP)
A government plan to shoot up to 184 wolves from a helicopter to reduce their population and save caribou herds in western Canada drew sharp criticism from cons...
Chinese company takes over Greenland mine project
Jan 15, 2015 (AFP)
Greenland has transferred a large iron ore licence to a Chinese company after now-bankrupt British London Mining was unable to fulfil its 30-year commitment to ...
Fossils reveal past, and possible future, of polar ice
Jan 11, 2015 (SPX)
The balmy islands of Seychelles couldn't feel farther from Antarctica, but their fossil corals could reveal much about the fate of polar ice sheets. About 125,0...
Sea Shepherd in epic chase of Antarctic 'poaching' ship
Jan 09, 2015 (AFP)
Environmental activist group Sea Shepherd said Friday it has been chasing a "poaching" ship for three weeks amid heavy ice flows in an attempt to stop the crew ...
Underwater drones map ice algae in Antarctica
Jan 06, 2015 (SPX)
New robot technology leads Antarctic exploration into a new epoch. It is now possible to study the underside of sea ice across large distances and explore a wor...
Why is Greenland covered in ice?
Jan 06, 2015 (SPX)
The ice on Greenland could only form due to processes in the deep Earth interior. Large-scale glaciations in the Arctic only began about 2.7 million years ago; ...
New science materializes from once-stuck Antarctica expedition ship
Dec 26, 2014 (UPI)
Just a year ago, the ship Akademik Shokalskiy became trapped in the ice floes of Antarctica. It had arrived carrying a crew intent on both recreating and honori...
Four rescued from boat stuck in Antarctic
Dec 24, 2014 (AFP)
Argentina and Chile joined forces to rescue four people who were trapped after their Polish-flagged vessel got stuck on King George island on the edge of Antarc...
Methane is leaking from permafrost offshore Siberia
Dec 24, 2014 (SPX)
Yamal Peninsula in Siberia has recently become world famous. Spectacular sinkholes, appeared as out of nowhere in the permafrost of the area, sparking the specu...
Warming leads to more run-ins with polar bears
Dec 19, 2014 (AFP)
Word spread quickly: a polar bear, then two, were spotted near this remote Inuit village on the shores of Hudson Bay, about 1,800 kilometers (1,120 miles) north...
The Greenland Ice Sheet: Now in HD
Dec 19, 2014 (SPX)
The Greenland Ice Sheet is ready for its close-up. The highest-resolution satellite images ever taken of that region are making their debut. And while each indi...
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