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Warm ocean water melting Antarctic ice from bottom
Jun 14, 2013 (AFP)
Warming ocean waters are melting the Antarctic ice shelves from the bottom up, researchers said Thursday in the first comprehensive study of the thick platforms...
Is a Sleeping Climate Giant Stirring in the Arctic
Jun 11, 2013 (JPL)
Flying low and slow above the wild, pristine terrain of Alaska's North Slope in a specially instrumented NASA plane, research scientist Charles Miller of NASA's...
US senators urge Obama to block Alaska mine
Jun 10, 2013 (AFP)
Five Senate Democrats are calling on US President Barack Obama to consider blocking construction of a copper mine in Alaska, arguing it could jeopardize the pri...
Ancient trapped water explains Earth's first ice age
Jun 10, 2013 (SPX)
Tiny bubbles of water found in quartz grains in Australia may hold the key to understanding what caused the Earth's first ice age, say scientists. The Anglo-Fre...
Great Lakes finally free of ice
Jun 10, 2013 (UPI)
For the first time in seven months, the Great Lakes are free of ice. The holdover winter freeze lasted almost the entirety of spring. But with just a little les...
NASA's IceBridge Mission Contributes to New Map of Antarctica
Jun 07, 2013 (SPX)
A new dataset called Bedmap2 gives a clearer picture of Antarctica from the ice surface down to the bedrock below. Bedmap2 is a significant improvement on the p...
Researchers document acceleration of ocean denitrification during deglaciation
Jun 06, 2013 (SPX)
As ice sheets melted during the deglaciation of the last ice age and global oceans warmed, oceanic oxygen levels decreased and "denitrification" accelerated by ...
New map reveals secrets of Antarctica below the ice
Jun 05, 2013 (UPI)
NASA says data from several missions has helped create a map of Antarctica giving a clearer picture of the continent from the ice surface to the bedrock below. ...
Ancient trapped water could explain timing of Earth's first ice age
Jun 05, 2013 (UPI)
Tiny bubbles of ancient water trapped in quartz grains in Australia may hold the key to understanding what caused the Earth's first ice age, scientists say. Res...
Arctic current flowed under deep freeze of last ice age
Jun 02, 2013 (SPX)
During the last ice age, when thick ice covered the Arctic, many scientists assumed that the deep currents below that feed the North Atlantic Ocean and help dri...
Study explores atmospheric impact of declining Arctic sea ice
May 29, 2013 (SPX)
There is growing recognition that reductions in Arctic sea ice levels will influence patterns of atmospheric circulation both within and beyond the Arctic. New ...
The Antarctic polar icecap is 33.6 million years old
May 29, 2013 (SPX)
The Antarctic continental ice cap came into existence during the Oligocene epoch, some 33.6 million years ago, according to data from an international expeditio...
Russian scientists make rare find of 'blood' in mammoth
May 29, 2013 (AFP)
Russian scientists claimed Wednesday they have discovered blood in the carcass of a woolly mammoth, adding that the rare find could boost their chances of cloni...
Slovenian flyer completes eco-friendly Arctic voyage
May 26, 2013 (AFP)
Slovenian adventurer and environmentalist Matevz Lenarcic on Sunday became the first person to fly an ultra-light plane from Europe to America and back over the...
Russia plans urgent evacuation of Arctic post as ice melts
May 23, 2013 (AFP)
Russia has ordered the urgent evacuation of the 16-strong crew of a drifting Arctic research station after the ice floe that hosts the floating laboratory began...
World's biggest ice sheets likely more stable than previously believed
May 22, 2013 (SPX)
For decades, scientists have used ancient shorelines to predict the stability of today's largest ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica. Markings of a high shor...
Sea level influenced tropical climate during the last ice age
May 22, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists look at past climates to learn about climate change and the ability to simulate it with computer models. One region that has received a great deal of...
Research into carbon storage in Arctic tundra reveals unexpected insight into ecosystem resiliency
May 17, 2013 (SPX)
When UC Santa Barbara doctoral student Seeta Sistla and her adviser, environmental studies professor Josh Schimel, went north not long ago to study how long-ter...
Tropical air circulation drives fall warming on Antarctic Peninsula
May 17, 2013 (SPX)
The eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula, a finger of the southern polar continent that juts toward South America, has experienced summer warming of perhaps ...
Shrinking glaciers behind a third of sea-level rise: study
May 16, 2013 (AFP)
Water from the world's shrinking glaciers was responsible for almost a third of the rise in sea levels between 2003 and 2009, new research showed Thursday. A st...
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