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High-Flying Laser Altimeter To Check Out Summer Sea Ice
Jul 16, 2014 (SPX)
Sea ice in summer looks dramatically different than sea ice in winter, even in the polar Arctic. Summer snowmelt, pools of water on thinning ice and exposed oce...
Tech woes menace Canada's Arctic maritime traffic: union
Jul 15, 2014 (AFP)
Technical problems with a new Canadian Coast Guard communications system are putting maritime traffic in the country's Arctic at risk, a union official said Tue...
Shark teeth offer new look at Arctic climate change
Jul 11, 2014 (SPX)
A new study shows that some shark species may be able to cope with the decreasing salinity of Arctic waters that may come with rising temperatures. The Arctic t...
Japan shipping giant plans first regular Arctic route
Jul 09, 2014 (AFP)
Japan's Mitsui O.S.K. Lines on Wednesday announced plans for the world's first regular commercial shipping route through the Arctic Ocean, starting in 2018, in ...
Changing Antarctic winds create new sea level threat
Jul 08, 2014 (SPX)
New research shows projected changes in the winds circling the Antarctic may accelerate global sea level rise significantly more than previously estimated. Chan...
Ancient ocean currents may have changed pace and intensity of ice ages
Jul 01, 2014 (SPX)
Climate scientists have long tried to explain why ice-age cycles became longer and more intense some 900,000 years ago, switching from 41,000-year cycles to 100...
Study links Greenland ice sheet collapse, sea level rise 400,000 years ago
Jun 30, 2014 (SPX)
A new study suggests that a warming period more than 400,000 years ago pushed the Greenland ice sheet past its stability threshold, resulting in a nearly comple...
Japan considering new base on Antarctica
Jun 23, 2014 (AFP)
Japan is looking at building a new base on Antarctica so scientists can study air trapped in ice a million years ago, in a bid to better understand climate chan...
China to publish Arctic shipping route guide: state media
Jun 20, 2014 (AFP)
China will soon publish a guide to navigating the Northeast Passage, a recently opened shortcut to Europe through the Arctic, state media reported Friday in a f...
Melting and refreezing of deep Greenland ice speeds flow to sea
Jun 19, 2014 (SPX)
Beneath the barren whiteness of Greenland, a mysterious world has popped into view. Using ice-penetrating radar, researchers have discovered ragged blocks of ic...
Arctic warming linked to fewer European and US cold weather extremes
Jun 19, 2014 (SPX)
Climate change is unlikely to lead to more days of extreme cold, similar to those that gripped the USA in a deep freeze last winter, new research has shown. The...
Scientists warn of tourism threat to Antarctica
Jun 18, 2014 (AFP)
Antarctic scientists warned Wednesday that a surge in tourists visiting the frozen continent and new roads and runways built to service research facilities were...
Antarctic species dwindle as icebergs batter shores year-round
Jun 17, 2014 (SPX)
The Antarctic shore is a place of huge contrasts, as quiet, dark, and frozen winters give way to bright, clear waters, thick with algae and peppered with drifti...
New permafrost is forming around shrinking Arctic lakes
Jun 12, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers from McGill and the U.S. Geological Survey, more used to measuring thawing permafrost than its expansion, have made a surprising discovery. There is...
Researchers find major West Antarctic glacier melting from geothermal sources
Jun 10, 2014 (SPX)
Thwaites Glacier, the large, rapidly changing outlet of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, is not only being eroded by the ocean, it's being melted from below by geo...
Russia to free Arctic Sunrise ship: Greenpeace
Jun 06, 2014 (AFP)
Russia in a "surprise move" is to release Greenpeace's Dutch-flagged Artic Sunrise ship, seized last year after a protest against Arctic oil drilling, the envir...
Solving the puzzle of ice age climates
Jun 03, 2014 (SPX)
The paleoclimate record for the last ice age - a time 21,000 years ago called the "Last Glacial Maximum" (LGM) - tells of a cold Earth whose northern continents...
Domestication of Dogs May Explain Mammoth Kill Sites
Jun 02, 2014 (SPX)
A new analysis of European archaeological sites containing large numbers of dead mammoths and dwellings built with mammoth bones has led Penn State Professor Em...
Norway creates 'safety zone' at contested Arctic drill site
May 30, 2014 (AFP)
Norway said Friday it had created a "safety zone" around the Arctic drilling site where Greenpeace is trying to prevent oil explorations. The zone, which stretc...
New study finds Antarctic Ice Sheet unstable at end of last ice age
May 29, 2014 (SPX)
A new study has found that the Antarctic Ice Sheet began melting about 5,000 years earlier than previously thought coming out of the last ice age - and that shr...
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