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Antarctic rescue bid back on as Chinese helicopter flies in
Jan 02, 2014 (AFP)
A helicopter landed alongside an icebound Russian research ship in Antarctica Thursday and began picking up its 52 trapped passengers, after a number of false s...
Scientists aboard ship trapped in the Antarctica ring in New Year
Jan 01, 2014 (AFP)
An icebound Russian research vessel rang in the New Year in Antarctica as blizzards delayed a helicopter rescue planned after several icebreaking attempts faile...
Scientists surprised to discover anemones living under antarctic ice
Dec 31, 2013 (UPI)
A species of sea anemone found on the underside of Antarctica's ice sheets is the only marine animal known to live embedded in ice, U.S. researchers say. No one...
Isolation in Russia jail was 'very hard': Greenpeace activist
Dec 31, 2013 (AFP)
A Greenpeace activist who was jailed in Russia over an Arctic protest said after returning to Switzerland that solitary confinement was "very hard" but that he ...
Antarctic ship passengers to be evacuated by Chinese helicopter: Russia
Dec 30, 2013 (AFP)
Most passengers and some crew from a scientific expedition ship stranded off Antarctica will be evacuated by helicopter to a Chinese icebreaker if weather condi...
Anxious wait for stranded Antarctic ship
Dec 29, 2013 (AFP)
Passengers on a Russian research ship trapped in thick Antarctic ice faced an uncertain wait Sunday for one last icebreaking attempt with no guarantees of succe...
Final amnestied foreign Greenpeace activist leaves Russia
Dec 29, 2013 (AFP)
The last of the 26 foreign Greenpeace activists who were detained after an Arctic protest left Russia on Sunday, the group announced, finally ending a saga that...
Rescue of stranded Antarctic ship stalls
Dec 28, 2013 (AFP)
A Chinese icebreaker has failed to break through thick ice to free a ship carrying scientists and tourists stranded off Antarctica, forcing Australian authoriti...
5,000 polar bears expected to be born around New Year's
Dec 28, 2013 (UPI)
The World Wildlife Fund for Nature says about 5,000 polar bears are expected to be born in the Arctic around New Year's. New Year's is the time of year when pol...
No regrets say Greenpeace Arctic activists after UK return
Dec 27, 2013 (AFP)
Five British Greenpeace activists arrived home in defiant mood on Friday after Russia granted them an amnesty to halt their prosecution for protesting against o...
China icebreaker heads to science ship trapped off Antarctica
Dec 27, 2013 (AFP)
A Chinese icebreaker was Friday closing in on the frozen seas where a scientific mission ship is trapped off Antarctica, as those onboard welcomed the easing of...
Greenland ice stores liquid water year-round
Dec 27, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Utah have discovered a new aquifer in the Greenland Ice Sheet that holds liquid water all year long in the otherwise perpetuall...
First Greenpeace activist departs Russia
Dec 26, 2013 (AFP)
A first Greenpeace activist was on a train out of Russia Thursday, more than three months after he was arrested along with 29 fellow crew members of a ship prot...
Enormous Aquifer Discovered Under Greenland Ice Sheet
Dec 25, 2013 (SPX)
Buried underneath compacted snow and ice in Greenland lies a large liquid water reservoir that has now been mapped by researchers using data from NASA's Operati...
Russia closes first case against Greenpeace activists
Dec 24, 2013 (AFP)
Russia has closed the criminal case against one of the 30 crew of a Greenpeace ship who were charged with hooliganism over a protest against Gazprom oil drillin...
Electric-Blue Clouds Appear over Antarctica
Dec 24, 2013 (SPX)
Data from NASA's AIM spacecraft show that noctilucent clouds are like a great "geophysical light bulb." They turn on every year in late spring, reaching almost ...
Revealed: Vast water store beneath Greenland's ice
Dec 22, 2013 (AFP)
A vast store of water equivalent in area to Ireland lies beneath Greenland's icesheet, and it may provide answers to one of the big riddles of climate change, s...
New actors in the Arctic ecosystem: Atlantic amphipods are now reproducing in Arctic waters
Dec 20, 2013 (SPX)
Biologists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have for the first time shown that amphipods from the warmer ...
China to build two new Antarctic bases: state media
Dec 19, 2013 (AFP)
Chinese workers are on their way to build the country's fourth Antarctic research base and a fifth is being planned, state-run media said Thursday as the countr...
Arctic sea ice volume up from record low
Dec 17, 2013 (ESA)
Measurements from ESA's CryoSat satellite show that the volume of Arctic sea ice has significantly increased this autumn. The volume of ice measured this autumn...
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