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East Antarctica is sliding sideways
Dec 17, 2013 (SPX)
It's official: East Antarctica is pushing West Antarctica around. Now that West Antarctica is losing weight--that is, billions of tons of ice per year--its soft...
NASA Finds Reducing Salt Is Bad For Glacial Health
Dec 17, 2013 (JPL)
A new NASA-led study has discovered an intriguing link between sea ice conditions and the melting rate of Totten Glacier, the glacier in East Antarctica that di...
Note from 1959 asks far north visitors to measure glacier distance
Dec 17, 2013 (UPI)
Canadian researchers said a message in a bottle revealed a rock cairn located 333 feet from a glacier was only 3.9 feet away in 1959. Warwick Vincent, who led a...
Alpine glacier, unchanged for thousands of years, now melting
Dec 16, 2013 (SPX)
Less than 20 miles from the site where melting ice exposed the 5,000-year-old body of Otzi the Iceman, scientists have discovered new and compelling evidence th...
Arctic storms that churn seas and melt ice more common than thought
Dec 16, 2013 (UPI)
Arctic storms swirling around the top of the world are more common than previously thought with about 1,900 in the first decade of the century, researchers say....
NASA-USGS Landsat 8 Satellite Pinpoints Coldest Spots on Earth
Dec 16, 2013 (SPX)
What is the coldest place on Earth? It is a high ridge in Antarctica on the East Antarctic Plateau where temperatures in several hollows can dip below minus 133...
Arctic cyclones more common than previously thought
Dec 16, 2013 (SPX)
From 2000 to 2010, about 1,900 cyclones churned across the top of the world each year, leaving warm water and air in their wakes-and melting sea ice in the Arct...
Good news for Arctic, as sea ice volume up by half
Dec 16, 2013 (AFP)
Arctic sea ice last month was around 50 percent higher in volume compared with a year earlier, following a recovery in area this summer, the European Space Agen...
Britain's Prince Harry reaches South Pole
Dec 13, 2013 (AFP)
Prince Harry on Friday became the first member of Britain's royal family to reach the South Pole after a three-week charity trek with injured military veterans ...
Ice melt means greener Arctic is the new normal
Dec 12, 2013 (AFP)
Below-average snow cover, melting sea ice and declines in the population of reindeers and caribou are the new normal in the modern-day Arctic, said a scientific...
Ice loss from West Antarctica on the increase
Dec 11, 2013 (AFP)
The West Antarctic ice sheet appears to be shedding far more ice than a few years ago, according to climate research unveiled Wednesday. Previous research, cond...
Airborne Radar Looking Through Thick Ice During NASA Polar Campaigns
Dec 09, 2013 (SPX)
The bedrock hidden beneath the thick ice sheets covering Greenland and Antarctica has intrigued researchers for years. Scientists are interested in how the shap...
Lakes discovered beneath Greenland ice sheet
Dec 08, 2013 (SPX)
The study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, discovered two subglacial lakes 800 metres below the Greenland Ice Sheet. The two lakes are each roughly 8...
Prince Harry's South Pole race cancelled, but trek goes on
Dec 07, 2013 (AFP)
A race to the South Pole involving Britain's Prince Harry and teams of injured troops has been cancelled due to safety concerns, organisers said Saturday, but t...
Antarctic fjords are climate-sensitive hotspots of diversity in a rapidly warming region
Dec 06, 2013 (SPX)
Deep inside the dramatic subpolar fjords of Antarctica, researchers from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa have discovered an unexpected abundance and diversit...
Rainfall to blame for decline in Arctic peregrines
Dec 06, 2013 (SPX)
Rain, crucial to sustaining life on Earth, is proving deadly for young peregrine falcons in Canada's Arctic. A University of Alberta study recently published in...
Subarctic lakes are drying up at a rate not seen in 200 years
Dec 05, 2013 (SPX)
The decrease in snowfall observed in recent years in Canada's subarctic regions has led to worrisome desiccation of the regions' lakes. This is the conclusion a...
Glaciers sizzle as they disappear into warmer water
Dec 05, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists have recorded and identified one of the most prominent sounds of a warming planet: the sizzle of glacier ice as it melts into the sea. The noise, cau...
Arctic development 'a new menace to polar bears'
Dec 04, 2013 (AFP)
Oil exploration and increased sea traffic in the Arctic are encroaching on polar bear habitat, adding to the existing climate change risk, representatives of Ar...
Arctic study shows key marine food web species at risk from increasing CO2
Dec 03, 2013 (SPX)
A research expedition to the Arctic, as part of the Catlin Arctic Survey, has revealed that tiny crustaceans, known as copepods, that live just beneath the ocea...
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