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Putin: Russia committed to Arctic environmental protection

Sep 27, 2013 (UPI)

The Arctic region holds huge economic potential but Russia also wants to cooperate with others to preserve its fragile environment, President Vladimir Putin say...

Arctic Sea Ice Minimum in 2013 is Sixth Lowest on Record

Sep 25, 2013 (SPX)

After an unusually cold summer in the northernmost latitudes, Arctic sea ice appears to have reached its annual minimum summer extent for 2013 on Sept. 13, the ...

Sands of time running out for rare Canadian desert

Sep 25, 2013 (AFP)

As desertification creeps into parts of the world, a rare stretch of sand in Canada's vast western plains is oddly doing the reverse -- slowly sprouting with ve...

Polar bears change to diet with higher contaminant loads

Sep 25, 2013 (SPX)

Researchers expect the climate to become warmer in the future and predict that climate change will have a significant impact on the Arctic. How will a warming A...

Underlying ocean melts ice shelf, speeds up glacier movement

Sep 25, 2013 (SPX)

Warm ocean water, not warm air, is melting the Pine Island Glacier's floating ice shelf in Antarctica and may be the culprit for increased melting of other ice ...

Putin says Arctic activists broke law but 'not pirates'

Sep 25, 2013 (AFP)

President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday 30 Greenpeace activists arrested by Russia were not "pirates" but had broken the law in a protest against Arctic oil exp...

Warming ocean thawing Antarctic glacier

Sep 25, 2013 (SPX)

For the first time, researchers completed an extensive exploration of how quickly ice is melting underneath a rapidly changing Antarctic glacier, possibly the b...

Achilles' heel of ice shelves is beneath the water, scientists reveal

Sep 24, 2013 (SPX)

New research has revealed that more ice leaves Antarctica by melting from the underside of submerged ice shelves than was previously thought, accounting for as ...

Research: Australian Aboriginals showed adaptability in last ice age

Sep 23, 2013 (UPI)

The last ice age required Aboriginal Australians to concentrate in areas with good food and water supplies, abandoning most of the continent, researchers said. ...

Arctic ice melt slows down: NASA

Sep 21, 2013 (AFP)

Arctic sea ice melted less this summer and continued to cover a greater expanse than last year's record minimum, NASA data shows. Following unusually cold summe...

Trail of melting Swiss glacier shows climate change in action

Sep 20, 2013 (AFP)

The hour-long walk from the local railway station to the Morteratsch glacier is a winding trek through a valley littered with rocks that the retreating ice left...

Unprecedented rate and scale of ocean acidification found in the Arctic

Sep 20, 2013 (SPX)

Acidification of the Arctic Ocean is occurring faster than projected according to new findings published in the journal PLoS One. The increase in rate is being ...

Russia mulls piracy charge against Greenpeace protesters

Sep 20, 2013 (AFP)

Greenpeace activists who scaled an oil platform to protest Arctic drilling could be charged with piracy, Russian investigators said Friday, as border guards beg...

Armed Russian guards lock up activists on ship: Greenpeace

Sep 19, 2013 (AFP)

Environmental group Greenpeace said Thursday that armed Russian officers had stormed its ship protesting oil exploration in the Arctic and detained all its crew...

Warm Ocean Rapidly Melting Antarctic Ice Shelf from Below

Sep 18, 2013 (SPX)

For five years, a scientific expedition tried reaching Pine Island Glacier ice shelf in a remote, wind-ridden corner of Antarctica. The obstacles to get to the ...

Russia arrests Greenpeace Arctic activists, fires warning shots

Sep 18, 2013 (AFP)

Russian coastguards on Wednesday arrested two Greenpeace activists who scaled an oil platform owned by state energy giant Gazprom in the Arctic to protest oil d...

Research: Strong winds may contribute to more sea ice in Antarctica

Sep 18, 2013 (UPI)

Stronger winds could explain the growth of sea ice in Antarctica, a University of Washington researcher says. A new modeling study to be published in the Journa...

Russia to restore Soviet-era naval base in Arctic: Putin

Sep 16, 2013 (AFP)

Russia is to reestablish its military presence in the resource-rich Arctic by re-opening a Soviet-era base to patrol the increasingly navigable Northern Sea Rou...

Gas flaring and household stoves speed Arctic thaw

Sep 16, 2013 (SPX)

Gas flaring by the oil industry and smoke from residential burning contributes more black carbon pollution to Arctic than previously thought-potentially speedin...

Arctic ice shrinking in volume, too: ESA

Sep 11, 2013 (AFP)

Arctic sea ice, which has been declining in area by unprecedented amounts in summer, is also falling in volume, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Wednesda...