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What is Happening with Antarctic Sea Ice
Oct 08, 2014 (SPX)
The sea ice that engulfs Antarctica each summer in the Southern Hemisphere grew to a new record extent - for the satellite era - this year. This year's sea ice ...
Plumbing system beneath Greenland slows ice sheet as summer progresses
Oct 03, 2014 (SPX)
A team led by scientists at the University of Texas at Austin's Institute for Geophysics has for the first time directly observed multiple parts of Greenland's ...
Changing Antarctic waters could trigger steep rise in sea levels
Oct 03, 2014 (SPX)
Current changes in the ocean around Antarctica are disturbingly close to conditions 14,000 years ago that new research shows may have led to the rapid melting o...
Flight ban to protect baby walruses beached in Alaska
Oct 02, 2014 (AFP)
US wildlife authorities have ordered planes to avoid flying too close to a vast herd of exhausted walruses beached on a remote Alaskan beach. The Fish and Wildl...
New mechanism reveals how molecules become trapped in ice
Oct 01, 2014 (SPX)
Ice is ubiquitous in nature-found within terrestrial and astrophysical environments alike-and contains many atoms and molecules trapped inside it. For example, ...
Young superheros call for protection of Chile's glaciers
Sep 27, 2014 (AFP)
Around 2,000 people, many of them children dressed as superheroes, marched in Santiago Saturday calling on President Michelle Bachelet to protect Chile's glacie...
Sea levels rose 5 meters a century at end of last 5 ice ages
Sep 26, 2014 (SPX)
Land-ice decay at the end of the last five ice-ages caused global sea-levels to rise at rates of up to 5.5 metres per century, according to a new study. An inte...
2014 Arctic Sea Ice Minimum Sixth Lowest on Record
Sep 24, 2014 (SPX)
Arctic sea ice coverage continued its below-average trend this year as the ice declined to its annual minimum on Sept. 17, according to the NASA-supported Natio...
Arctic sea ice helps remove CO2 from the atmosphere
Sep 23, 2014 (SPX)
Climate change is a fact, and most of the warming is caused by human activity. The Arctic is now so warm that the extent of sea ice has decreased by about 30 pc...
Antifreeze proteins in Antarctic fishes prevent freezing...and melting
Sep 23, 2014 (SPX)
Antarctic fishes that manufacture their own "antifreeze" proteins to survive in the icy Southern Ocean also suffer an unfortunate side effect, researchers repor...
Past temperature in Greenland adjusted
Sep 10, 2014 (SPX)
One of the common perceptions about the climate is that the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, solar radiation and temperature follow each other - the ...
Study resolves discrepancy in Greenland temperatures during end of last ice age
Sep 10, 2014 (SPX)
A new study of three ice cores from Greenland documents the warming of the large ice sheet at the end of the last ice age - resolving a long-standing paradox ov...
Russia dispatches naval force to reopen Arctic base
Sep 06, 2014 (AFP)
Russia on Saturday sent six ships carrying personnel and equipment to a Soviet-era military base in the Arctic that it is reopening to bolster its presence in t...
New study clears up Greenland climate puzzle
Sep 05, 2014 (AFP)
Greenland began heating up around 19,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age, just like the rest of the northern hemisphere, researchers said Thursday in a...
Antarctic sea-level rising faster than global rate
Sep 01, 2014 (SPX)
A new study of satellite data from the last 19 years reveals that fresh water from melting glaciers has caused the sea-level around the coast of Antarctica to r...
US expedition yields first breakthrough paper about life under Antarctic ice
Aug 27, 2014 (SPX)
The first breakthrough paper to come out of a massive U.S. expedition to one of Earth's final frontiers shows that there's life and an active ecosystem one-half...
Sunlight, not microbes, key to CO2 in Arctic
Aug 25, 2014 (SPX)
The vast reservoir of carbon stored in Arctic permafrost is gradually being converted to carbon dioxide (CO2) after entering the freshwater system in a process ...
NASA Scientists Watching, Studying Arctic Changes This Summer
Aug 25, 2014 (SPX)
As we near the final month of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, NASA scientists are watching the annual seasonal melting of the Arctic sea ice cover. The float...
Arctic sea ice influenced force of the Gulf Stream
Aug 25, 2014 (SPX)
The force of the Gulf Stream was significantly influenced by the sea ice situation in the Fram Strait in the past 30,000 years. Scientists at the Alfred Wegener...
Canada to push Arctic claim in Europe
Aug 21, 2014 (AFP)
Canada's top diplomat will discuss the Arctic with his Scandinavian counterparts in Denmark and Norway next week, it was announced Thursday, a trip that will ra...
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