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Dutch take Russia to maritime court over Greenpeace ship
Oct 21, 2013 (AFP)
The Netherlands said Monday it has taken Russia to the world's maritime court in order to free 30 crew members of Greenpeace's Arctic Sunrise, charged with pira...
Nobel winners urge Russia to drop Greenpeace piracy charges
Oct 17, 2013 (AFP)
Eleven Nobel Peace Prize winners have called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to ensure that "excessive charges of piracy" laid against 30 Greenpeace activis...
Nobel laureates call on Putin to drop piracy charges against Greenpeace
Oct 17, 2013 (AFP)
Eleven Nobel Peace Prize winners have called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to ensure that "excessive charges of piracy" laid against 30 Greenpeace activis...
Australia, US put heat on Russia over Antarctic sanctuaries
Oct 16, 2013 (AFP)
Nations led by Australia and the United States stepped up pressure on Russia Wednesday for a swift agreement to create vast Antarctic marine sanctuaries. The Co...
The tundra a dark horse in planet Earth's greenhouse gas budget
Oct 16, 2013 (SPX)
Vast areas on the Northern Hemisphere are covered by tundra. Here, dwarf shrubs, sedges, mosses etc. thrive on top of permafrost in areas where only the uppermo...
Australia Antarctic mission focuses on penguin poo, warming
Oct 15, 2013 (AFP)
Ancient penguin droppings and the impact of global warming on the Antarctic food chain will be the focus of Australia's latest scientific mission to the icy con...
Russia keeps Greenpeace ship captain behind bars
Oct 14, 2013 (AFP)
A Russian court on Monday rejected bail requests from the captain of a Greenpeace ship and a young female Argentinian activist involved in a protest against oil...
Greenpeace boss admits surprise at harsh Russian response
Oct 11, 2013 (AFP)
Despite its expertise at risky protests, Greenpeace's head admitted he was "extremely surprised" by Russia's response in the Arctic and never imagined activists...
Brazil to start work on new Antarctic base next year
Oct 10, 2013 (AFP)
Brazil said Thursday it will start work early next year on a new Antarctic base to replace the one gutted by a 2012 fire. The new station would be modern, newer...
Giant channels discovered beneath Antarctic ice shelf
Oct 09, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists have discovered huge ice channels beneath a floating ice shelf in Antarctica. At 250 metres high, the channels are almost as tall as the Eiffel tower...
US shutdown puts freeze on Antarctic research
Oct 09, 2013 (AFP)
The government shutdown in Washington has forced US bases half a world away in Antarctica to suspend research as they go into "caretaker" mode, the National Sci...
Government shutdown threatens U.S. antarctic research
Oct 09, 2013 (UPI)
The National Science Foundation says it will shift its antarctic research programs into caretaker mode if the U.S. government shutdown continues past Monday. Th...
Arctic shipping route may take 20 years, Maersk CEO: FT
Oct 07, 2013 (AFP)
Commercial shipping routes across the Arctic will not be a reality for at least a decade or two, the head of the world's biggest container line told the Financi...
Europe's top court rejects Inuit appeal against seal fur ban
Oct 03, 2013 (AFP)
Europe's top court on Thursday rejected an appeal by Inuit seal hunters and fur traders against an EU ban on products derived from the Arctic animals. "The cour...
Traces of immense prehistoric ice sheets: the climate history of the Arctic Ocean needs to be rewritten
Oct 03, 2013 (SPX)
Geologists and geophysicists of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), discovered traces of large ice sheets from t...
Largest ice mass in California's Yosemite park melting, disappearing
Oct 02, 2013 (UPI)
The largest ice mass in Yosemite, a glacier that is the California park's key source of water, is melting fast and could be gone in 20 years, scientists say. Ly...
The deep Greenland Sea is warming faster than the World Ocean
Oct 01, 2013 (SPX)
Recent warming of the Greenland Sea Deep Water is about ten times higher than warming rates estimated for the global ocean. Scientists from the Alfred Wegener I...
Russia to charge Greenpeace activists with piracy: report
Oct 01, 2013 (AFP)
Greenpeace activists detained in Russia for a protest against Arctic oil drilling will be formally charged with piracy on Wednesday, the Interfax news agency sa...
Warming hits Greenland's caribou
Oct 01, 2013 (AFP)
Arctic ice melt due to global warming is having an unexpected impact on West Greenland's caribou, causing fewer calves to be born and boosting their death rate,...
Late Cretaceous Period was likely ice-free
Sep 27, 2013 (SPX)
For years, scientists have thought that a continental ice sheet formed during the Late Cretaceous Period more than 90 million years ago when the climate was muc...
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