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Antarctic moss returns to life after 1,500 years frozen

Mar 17, 2014 (AFP)

Moss that was frozen for 1,500 years beneath an ice sheet in Antarctica has been brought back to life, marking the longest life span for any known plant, resear...

Global warming a concern at Chile's penguin paradise

Mar 17, 2014 (AFP)

Magdalena Island, located near Chile's southern tip, is a natural paradise for tens of thousands of penguins who come every year to breed. But global warming co...

Melting away: vanishing ice warning for 'Africa's Alps'

Mar 16, 2014 (AFP)

In swirling snow, John Medenge prods a thin ice bridge over a crevasse with an iron-tipped spear, guiding climbers scaling the steep glacial wall using crampons...

NASA's Operation IceBridge Begins New Arctic Campaign

Mar 14, 2014 (SPX)

Researchers aboard NASA's P-3 research aircraft left the agency's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va., March 10 for Greenland to begin a new season o...

NASA Data Sheds New Light on Changing Greenland Ice

Mar 13, 2014 (SPX)

Research using NASA data is giving new insight into one of the processes causing Greenland's ice sheet to lose mass. A team of scientists used satellite observa...

Volcanoes helped species survive ice ages: study

Mar 11, 2014 (AFP)

The steam and heat from volcanoes allowed species of plants and animals to survive past ice ages, a study showed Tuesday, offering help for scientists dealing w...

NASA Satellite Sees Great Freeze Over Great Lakes

Mar 06, 2014 (SPX)

At night, as cold settles in, lake ice creaks and groans. It's been excessively cold, and I camped exposed on the snow-swept surface. Other than the lack of veg...

Warm Rivers Play Role in Arctic Sea Ice Melt

Mar 06, 2014 (JPL)

The heat from warm river waters draining into the Arctic Ocean is contributing to the melting of Arctic sea ice each summer, a new NASA study finds. A research ...

Study projects big thaw for Antarctic sea ice

Mar 03, 2014 (SPX)

Antarctica's Ross Sea is one of the few polar regions where summer sea-ice coverage has increased during the last few decades, bucking a global trend of drastic...

Fossils offer new clues into humans after the last Ice Age in North America

Mar 03, 2014 (SPX)

Researchers have discovered how Native Americans may have survived the last Ice Age after splitting from their Asian relatives 25,000 years ago. Academics at Ro...

10,000 years on the Bering land bridge

Mar 03, 2014 (SPX)

Genetic and environmental evidence indicates that after the ancestors of Native Americans left Asia, they spent 10,000 years in shrubby lowlands on a broad land...

Alaska mine could be blocked to save salmon fisheries

Mar 01, 2014 (AFP)

US environmental authorities made a rare move Friday to block a massive copper and gold mine in Alaska before it even gets under way, in a bid to protect wild s...

Native Americans lived in Bering Strait for millennia: study

Mar 01, 2014 (AFP)

Early Native Americans spent millenia living on the Bering Land Bridge now buried under water before they appeared in Alaska and the rest of the North America, ...

Arctic biodiversity under serious threat from climate change

Feb 26, 2014 (SPX)

Climate change caused by human activities is by far the worst threat to biodiversity in the Arctic. Some of these changes are already visible, according to a ne...

Dartmouth-led research shows temperature, not snowfall, driving tropical glacier size

Feb 26, 2014 (SPX)

Temperature, not snowfall, has been driving the fluctuating size of Peru's Quelccaya Ice Cap, whose dramatic shrinkage in recent decades has made it a symbol fo...

Current ice melt rate in Pine Island Glacier may go on for decades

Feb 25, 2014 (SPX)

A study of the Pine Island Glacier could provide insight into the patterns and duration of glacial melt. The Pine Island Glacier, a major outlet of the West Ant...

Norway plays down conflict risk in the Arctic

Feb 24, 2014 (AFP)

Norway's intelligence service played down the risks of conflict in the Arctic Monday, arguing that reports of a scramble for the region's oil and gas were more ...

Increase in Arctic Cyclones is Linked to Climate Change

Feb 24, 2014 (SPX)

Winter in the Arctic is not only cold and dark, it is also storm season when hurricane-like cyclones traverse the northern waters from Iceland to Alaska. These ...

Study predicts Antarctic ice melting will endure

Feb 20, 2014 (AFP)

The melting of ice in the Antarctic is considered a top threat to global sea level rise, and scientists said Thursday the trend could continue for decades or ev...

Arctic biodiversity under serious threat from climate change according to new report

Feb 18, 2014 (SPX)

Unique and irreplaceable Arctic wildlife and landscapes are crucially at risk due to global warming caused by human activities according to the Arctic Biodivers...