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As ice cover disappears, life in the frigid Antarctic moves fast
Jul 15, 2013 (SPX)
It might be cold in the Antarctic, but that doesn't mean that life there necessarily moves slowly. A report appearing in Current Biology, a Cell Press publicati...
Russia says evacuation of polar research station to cost $2 million
Jul 15, 2013 (UPI)
The Russian government said Monday it has set aside $2 million to cover expenses caused by an urgent evacuation of a drifting polar research station. Preparatio...
Antarctic Glacier Calves Iceberg One-Fourth Size of Rhode Island
Jul 15, 2013 (SPX)
This week a European Earth-observing satellite confirmed that a large iceberg broke off of Pine Island Glacier, one of Antarctica's largest and fastest moving i...
Antarctic nations to wrestle again over sanctuary plan
Jul 12, 2013 (AFP)
The guardians of Antarctica's marine wealth gather in Germany on Sunday for a fresh round of talks on creating the world's largest ocean sanctuary. Two plans of...
Glass sponges take advantage of retreating Antarctic ice shelves
Jul 12, 2013 (SPX)
The breakup and collapse of the Larsen A ice shelf in the western Weddell Sea in 1995 has resulted in fundamental changes to life on the sea bed in less than tw...
The contribution of the Greenland ice sheet to sea-level rise will continue to increase
Jul 12, 2013 (SPX)
New research has shown surface ice melt will be the dominant process controlling ice-loss from Greenland. As outlet glaciers retreat inland the other process, i...
Scientists cast doubt on theory of what triggered Antarctic glaciation
Jul 12, 2013 (SPX)
A team of U.S. and U.K. scientists has found geologic evidence that casts doubt on one of the conventional explanations for how Antarctica's ice sheet began for...
Scientists track noisy icebergs across world's oceans
Jul 11, 2013 (UPI)
Icebergs drifting from Antarctica to warmer waters produce levels of noise as they melt that could potentially affect some ocean dwellers, researchers say. The ...
Scientists Image Vast Subglacial Water System Underpinning West Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier
Jul 10, 2013 (SPX)
In a development that will help predict potential sea level rise from the Antarctic ice sheet, scientists from The University of Texas at Austin's Institute for...
Antarctic glacier calves iceberg 8 times as big as Manhattan Island
Jul 09, 2013 (UPI)
The longest and fastest flowing glacier in the Antarctic has spawned a huge iceberg eight times the size of Manhattan Island, German researchers say. The 280-sq...
Evidence suggests Antarctic crabs could be native
Jul 08, 2013 (SPX)
A new study has cast doubt on the claim that crabs may have disappeared from Antarctica only to return due to warming seas. The theory surfaced two years ago fo...
CryoSat maps largest-ever flood beneath Antarctica
Jul 03, 2013 (ESA)
ESA's CryoSat satellite has found a vast crater in Antarctica's icy surface. Scientists believe the crater was left behind when a lake lying under about 3 km of...
One-well program in arctic waters starts for Gazprom division
Jul 01, 2013 (UPI)
A subsidiary of Russian energy company Gazprom Neft said it started drilling its single-well program in the arctic waters of the Pechora Sea. The subsidiary, Ga...
Is Arctic Permafrost the Sleeping Giant of Climate Change?
Jun 27, 2013 (SPX)
Flying low and slow above the pristine terrain of Alaska's North Slope research scientist Charles Miller of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory surveys the white e...
The rhythm of the Arctic summer
Jun 24, 2013 (SPX)
Our internal circadian clock regulates daily life processes and is synchronized by external cues, the so-called Zeitgebers. The main cue is the light-dark cycle...
Penguin colonies may move and adapt to climate change
Jun 24, 2013 (UPI)
Scientists say that emperor penguin populations may be on the move, adapting their mating and migration habits to global warming. In the 1970s, biologists notic...
Global cooling as significant as global warming
Jun 21, 2013 (SPX)
A "cold snap" 116 million years ago triggered a similar marine ecosystem crisis to those witnessed in the past as a result of global warming, according to resea...
Jet stream changes cause climatically exceptional Greenland Ice Sheet melt
Jun 19, 2013 (SPX)
Research from the University of Sheffield has shown that unusual changes in atmospheric jet stream circulation caused the exceptional surface melt of the Greenl...
Warm ocean drives most Antarctic ice shelf loss
Jun 19, 2013 (SPX)
Ocean waters melting the undersides of Antarctic ice shelves, not icebergs calving into the sea, are responsible for most of the continent's ice loss, a study b...
Study finds atmospheric conditions led to record Greenland ice melting
Jun 17, 2013 (UPI)
An exceptional melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet in summer 2012 was the result of unusual changes in atmospheric jet stream circulation, scientists say. An int...
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