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Canada builds up arctic maritime surveillance
Sep 11, 2013 (UPI)
Canada is going ahead with plans to keep closer tabs on arctic shipping amid competing claims on the region, especially those from Russia and northern European ...
Penn Study Finds Earlier Peak for Spain's Glaciers
Sep 10, 2013 (SPX)
The last glacial maximum was a time when Earth's far northern and far southern latitudes were largely covered in ice sheets and sea levels were low. Over much o...
New study points finger at climate in mammoth's demise
Sep 10, 2013 (AFP)
A wide-ranging probe into woolly mammoths has added to evidence that the towering tusker was wiped out by climate change, scientists said on Wednesday. British ...
West Antarctica ice sheet existed 20 million years earlier than previously thought
Sep 05, 2013 (SPX)
The results of research conducted by professors at UC Santa Barbara and colleagues mark the beginning of a new paradigm for our understanding of the history of ...
East Antarctic Ice Sheet could be more vulnerable to climate change than previously thought
Sep 05, 2013 (SPX)
The world's largest ice sheet could be more vulnerable to the effects of climate change than previously thought, according to new research from Durham Universit...
On warming Antarctic Peninsula, moss and microbes reveal unprecedented ecological change
Sep 05, 2013 (SPX)
By carefully analyzing a 150-year-old moss bank on the Antarctic Peninsula, researchers reporting in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, on August 29 des...
Sea ice decline spurs the greening of the Arctic
Aug 26, 2013 (SPX)
Sea ice decline and warming trends are changing the vegetation in nearby arctic coastal areas, according to two University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists. Uma B...
Change of Venue for NASA's IceBridge Antarctic Operations
Aug 26, 2013 (SPX)
This fall, NASA's Operation IceBridge will base its annual Antarctic campaign out of National Science Foundation's McMurdo Station, a change from the mission's ...
Arctic Sea Ice Update: Unlikely To Break Records, But Continuing Downward Trend
Aug 26, 2013 (SPX)
The melting of sea ice in the Arctic is well on its way toward its annual "minimum," that time when the floating ice cap covers less of the Arctic Ocean than at...
UM Researcher Finds Loss of Sea Ice Causes Ecological Changes
Aug 23, 2013 (SPX)
A new paper co-written by UM associate professor Mark Hebblewhite details ecological changes caused by a loss of Arctic sea ice. The paper concludes that the lo...
Warming Antarctic seas likely to impact on krill habitats
Aug 23, 2013 (SPX)
Antarctic krill are usually less than 6 cm in length but their size belies the major role they play in sustaining much of the life in the Southern Ocean. They a...
UM Scientists Use New Approach to Reveal Function of Greenland's Ice Sheet
Aug 22, 2013 (SPX)
Findings from a large-scale ice drilling study on the Greenland ice sheet by a team of University of Montana and University of Wyoming researchers may revise th...
Arctic shipping holds great promise for Asia
Aug 21, 2013 (UPI)
A shipping route through the Arctic's melting ice holds great promise for Asian companies, experts say. The Northern Sea Route, also called the Northeast Passag...
Greenpeace says Russia denies it Arctic access
Aug 21, 2013 (AFP)
Greenpeace said Wednesday that Russia had denied its ship access to Russian Arctic waters to hide the extent of its lucrative energy exploration work in the fra...
Earth orbit changes were key to Antarctic warming that ended last ice age
Aug 20, 2013 (SPX)
For more than a century scientists have known that Earth's ice ages are caused by the wobbling of the planet's orbit, which changes its orientation to the sun a...
Improving Understanding of Snowball Earth
Aug 19, 2013 (SPX)
During vast ice ages millions of years ago, sheets of glaciers stretched from the poles almost to the equator, covering the Earth in a frozen skin. Conditions o...
Antarctic ice core sheds new light on how the last ice age ended
Aug 19, 2013 (SPX)
Analysis of an ice core taken by the National Science Foundation- (NSF) funded West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide drilling project reveals that warming in A...
Chinese tycoon still hopes to sign Icelandic land deal
Aug 16, 2013 (AFP)
A Chinese property tycoon who wants to build a resort in the Icelandic wilderness still hopes to clinch a deal with authorities in Reykjavik despite two failed ...
Melting water's lubricating effect on glaciers has only 'minor' role in future sea-level rise
Aug 14, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists had feared that melt-water which trickles down through the ice could dramatically speed up the movement of glaciers as it acts as a lubricant between...
Greenland ice is melting - also from below
Aug 14, 2013 (SPX)
The Greenland ice sheet is melting from below, caused by a high heat flow from the mantle into the lithosphere. This influence is very variable spatially and ha...
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