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'Noisy' glaciers sound off as they melt into ocean waters
Nov 28, 2013 (UPI)
The sizzle of glacier ice as it melts into the sea creates one of the loudest natural marine environments on Earth, researchers in Alaska say. The popping, crac...
Russian court frees last Greenpeace activist
Nov 28, 2013 (AFP)
A Russian court on Thursday granted bail to the last of 30 Greenpeace crew members detained since their September protest against Arctic oil drilling. The decis...
Greenland's shrunken ice sheet: We've been here before
Nov 28, 2013 (SPX)
Think Greenland's ice sheet is small today? It was smaller - as small as it has ever been in recent history - from 3-5,000 years ago, according to scientists wh...
IceBridge at McMurdo: A Year and a Half of Planning
Nov 27, 2013 (SPX)
Making the current NASA Operation IceBridge campaign - the first to ever operate directly from Antarctica - a reality took a year and a half of planning and coo...
New study determines more accurate method to date tropical glacier moraines
Nov 25, 2013 (SPX)
A Dartmouth-led team has found a more accurate method to determine the ages of boulders deposited by tropical glaciers, findings that will likely influence prev...
WTO backs EU in seal ban battle with Canada and Norway
Nov 25, 2013 (AFP)
The WTO on Monday ruled in favour of the European Union in a bitter battle with Canada and Norway over its ban on the import and sale of seal products. The Gene...
Greenpeace crew can leave Russia if migration issue fixed: official
Nov 23, 2013 (AFP)
Moscow will allow the foreign crew members of Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise to leave Russia as soon as they obtain legal status to do so, a high-ranking Kremli...
Global warming in the Canadian Arctic
Nov 22, 2013 (SPX)
Ph.D. student Karita Negandhi and professor Isabelle Laurion from INRS'Eau Terre Environnement Research Centre, in collaboration with other Canadian, U.S., and ...
NASA Begins First Antarctic Airborne Campaign from McMurdo Station
Nov 22, 2013 (SPX)
NASA's Operation IceBridge has begun its 2013 Antarctic field campaign with the arrival of the agency's aircraft and scientists at the National Science Foundati...
Russia frees three more Greenpeace crewmembers
Nov 21, 2013 (AFP)
Russia on Thursday released on bail three Greenpeace activists, including a photojournalist, bringing to four the number freed after two months in prison over a...
Putin says Greenpeace had 'noble' motives as more crew freed
Nov 21, 2013 (AFP)
Russia on Thursday released 10 Greenpeace activists on bail, bringing to 11 the number freed from jail as President Vladimir Putin said the group had noble moti...
Underwater 'tree rings'
Nov 20, 2013 (SPX)
Almost 650 years of annual change in sea-ice cover can been seen in the calcite crust growth layers of seafloor algae, says a new study from the University of T...
Brazil hails Russian bail for held Greenpeace militant
Nov 19, 2013 (AFP)
Brazil President Dilma Rousseff on Tuesday welcomed Russia's decision to release on bail Brazilian Greenpeace activist Ana Paula Maciel, detained for an Arctic ...
Russia grants bail to first Greenpeace activist
Nov 18, 2013 (AFP)
A Russian court on Monday extended the pre-trial detention of one of 30 Greenpeace activists arrested for a protest against Arctic oil drilling, but unexpectedl...
Could volcanoes be causing Antarctic ice loss?
Nov 17, 2013 (AFP)
Accelerating ice loss from the Antarctic icesheet could be due in part to active volcanoes under the frozen continent's eastern part, a study said on Sunday. Fr...
Protests as Greenpeace activists mark two months in detention
Nov 16, 2013 (AFP)
Greenpeace organised protests in 263 cities around the world on Saturday to mark two months since 30 of its environmental activists were jailed in Russia over a...
Iceberg the size of Manhattan could threaten shipping: study
Nov 14, 2013 (AFP)
An iceberg the size of Manhattan has broken off a glacier in Antarctica and could survive long enough to drift into international shipping lanes, scientists sai...
Netherlands: 'Not enough time' to stop Greenpeace's arctic activists
Nov 13, 2013 (UPI)
The Netherlands says Russia didn't give it enough time to prevent Greenpeace protesters flying the Dutch flag from trying to storm an Arctic Ocean oil rig. Dutc...
Russia moves detained Arctic activists to St Petersburg
Nov 12, 2013 (AFP)
Russia on Tuesday put 30 crew members of a Greenpeace protest ship in prisons in Saint Petersburg, after moving them from the Arctic Circle city of Murmansk whe...
'Tiger stripes' underneath Antarctic glaciers slow the flow
Nov 11, 2013 (SPX)
Narrow stripes of dirt and rock beneath massive Antarctic glaciers create friction zones that slow the flow of ice toward the sea, researchers at Princeton Univ...
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