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Polar scientists drill 2,000-year-old ice core
May 08, 2014 (AFP)
Polar scientists said Thursday they had successfully drilled a 2,000-year-old ice core in the heart of Antarctica in a bid to retrieve a frozen record of how th...
Antarctic Treaty signatories make marine protection progress
May 08, 2014 (AFP)
Antarctic Treaty signatories made progress Wednesday towards future protection of the icy continent's marine life, NGO officials said. Authorities at the treaty...
Uncorking East Antarctica yields unstoppable sea-level rise
May 07, 2014 (SPX)
The melting of a rather small ice volume on East Antarctica's shore could trigger a persistent ice discharge into the ocean, resulting in unstoppable sea-level ...
Network for tracking earthquakes exposes glacier activity
May 02, 2014 (SPX)
Alaska's seismic network records thousands of quakes produced by glaciers, capturing valuable data that scientists could use to better understand their behavior...
Krypton-dating technique allows researchers to accurately date ancient Antarctic ice
Apr 30, 2014 (SPX)
A team of scientists, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), has successfully used a new technique to confirm the age of a 120,000-year-old sample of ...
Tourism main topic at annual Antarctic Treaty meeting
Apr 28, 2014 (AFP)
Increased tourism on the world's iciest continent and its impact on the environment were set to top discussion at an annual Antarctic Treaty meeting that began ...
Concordia calling
Apr 28, 2014 (ESA)
Are you a team player who is unafraid of long isolation? Do you have a medical degree and a healthy love of extremes? ESA is offering the chance of a lifetime t...
Cougars' diverse diet helped them survive the Pleistocene mass extinction
Apr 25, 2014 (SPX)
Cougars may have survived the mass extinction that took place about 12,000 years ago because they were not particular about what they ate, unlike their more fin...
Ancient sea-levels give new clues on ice ages
Apr 25, 2014 (SPX)
International researchers, led by the Australian National University (ANU), have developed a new way to determine sea-level changes and deep-sea temperature var...
Lab researcher discovers the green in Greenland
Apr 23, 2014 (SPX)
At one point in history, Greenland was actually green and not a country covered in ice. An international team of researchers, including a former scientist from ...
Air temperature influenced African glacial movements
Apr 19, 2014 (SPX)
Changes in air temperature, not precipitation, drove the expansion and contraction of glaciers in Africa's Rwenzori Mountains at the height of the last ice age,...
Study provides crucial new information about how the ice ages came about
Apr 19, 2014 (SPX)
An international team of scientists has discovered new relationships between deep-sea temperature and ice-volume changes to provide crucial new information abou...
Preglacial landscape found deep under Greenland ice
Apr 18, 2014 (AFP)
US geologists said Thursday they have uncovered a preglacial tundra landscape preserved for 2.7 million years far below the Greenland ice sheet. Glaciers are kn...
The role of oceanic carbon reservoir over glacial cycles
Apr 17, 2014 (SPX)
Glacial cycles at 104-yr time scale have been the focus of Quaternary paleoclimatology over the last century. In recent years with the emergence of continuous h...
Growth of Antarctic ice sheet triggered warming in the Southern Ocean during Miocene
Apr 15, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), have deciphered a supposed climate paradox from the Miocene er...
Canada boycotts Arctic Council meeting in Moscow
Apr 15, 2014 (AFP)
Canada boycotted Arctic Council meetings in Russia this week in protest of Russia's "illegal occupation" of Ukraine, Minister Leona Aglukkaq said Tuesday. Agluk...
Antarctica, a dream destination for tourists
Apr 12, 2014 (AFP)
As the sun sets, the cloudy sky melds with the glaring white of the frozen terrain. Tourists trudging in single file line marvel over blue glaciers in Antarctic...
La Brea Tar Pit fossil research shows climate change drove evolution of Ice Age predators
Apr 11, 2014 (SPX)
Concerns about climate change and its impact on the world around us are growing daily. New scientific studies at the La Brea Tar Pits are probing the link betwe...
Rare leafcutter bee fossils reveal Ice Age environment at the La Brea Tar Pits
Apr 11, 2014 (SPX)
The La Brea Tar Pits, the world's richest and most important Ice Age fossil locality, is most celebrated for it collection of saber-toothed cats and mammoths. T...
Permafrost thawing could accelerate global warming
Apr 09, 2014 (SPX)
A team of researchers lead by Florida State University have found new evidence that permafrost thawing is releasing large quantities of greenhouse gases into th...
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