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Scientists find extensive glacial retreat in Mount Everest region
May 15, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers taking a new look at the snow and ice covering Mount Everest and the national park that surrounds it are finding abundant evidence that the world's ...
Arctic Council admits China, six others as observers
May 15, 2013 (AFP)
The Arctic Council, at a meeting Wednesday in northern Sweden, granted permanent observer status to China and six others, in a powerful signal of the polar regi...
The effect of climate change on iceberg production by Greenland glaciers
May 13, 2013 (SPX)
While the impact of climate change on the surface of the Greenland ice sheet has been widely studied, a clear understanding of the key process of iceberg produc...
Ice wall crashes into Canada cottages
May 13, 2013 (AFP)
Winds whipped up a wall of ice into a lakeside community in Canada's western Manitoba province, destroying or damaging dozens of cottages over the weekend, offi...
Study: Mount Everest losing its cloak of ice and snow as world warms
May 13, 2013 (UPI)
A study of snow and ice on Mount Everest shows the world's highest mountain peak is shedding its frozen cloak as glaciers retreat with warming, researchers say....
Climate Record From Bottom of Russian Lake Shows Arctic Was Warmer Millions of Years Ago
May 13, 2013 (SPX)
The Arctic was very warm during a period roughly 3.5 to 2 million years ago - a time when research suggests that the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere w...
Dietary flexibility may have helped some large predators survive after last ice age
May 13, 2013 (SPX)
During the late Pleistocene, a remarkably diverse assemblage of large-bodied mammals inhabited the "mammoth steppe," a cold and dry yet productive environment t...
Ice-free Arctic may be in our future
May 13, 2013 (SPX)
Analyses of the longest continental sediment core ever collected in the Arctic, recently completed by an international team led by Julie Brigham-Grette of the U...
Polar bears adapted to subsist on high-fat diet
May 09, 2013 (UPI)
Why can polar bears gorge themselves on fat, grow exceptionally portly, and not have to worry about clogged veins and skyrocketing blood pressure like so many o...
NATO won't up presence in the Arctic: chief
May 08, 2013 (AFP)
NATO has no plans to increase its presence in the Arctic, Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Wednesday despite numerous countries' keen interest in th...
Brazil rebuilding Antarctic base gutted by fire
May 07, 2013 (UPI)
Brazil is rebuilding its major Antarctic research base, gutted in a fire more than a year ago, but millions of dollars worth of scientific data acquired over th...
Scientists sound alarm at Arctic Ocean's rapid acidification
May 06, 2013 (AFP)
Scientists expressed alarm on Monday over the rapid acidification of the Arctic Ocean caused by carbon dioxide emissions, which could have dire consequences on ...
East Antarctic 'ice plugs' preventing giant rise in sea level
May 05, 2013 (UPI)
There's a giant bowl of ice in East Antarctica that sits below sea level, and could -- if allowed to slip free -- cause sea level to rise more than a dozen feet...
NASA's IceBridge Finishing Up Successful Arctic Campaign
May 03, 2013 (SPX)
With several weeks of science flights in the books, researchers with NASA's Operation IceBridge are on the way to completing another successful campaign to main...
UN sounds alarm over record Arctic ice melt
May 02, 2013 (AFP)
The Arctic's sea ice melted at a record pace in 2012, the ninth-hottest year on record, compounding concerns about climate change underscored by extreme weather...
EU spars with Canada, Norway at WTO over seal ban
Apr 29, 2013 (AFP)
The European Union locked horns Monday with Canada and Norway at the World Trade Organisation over its hotly contested ban on the import and sale of seal produc...
Discovered: A mammal and bug food co-op in the High Arctic
Apr 29, 2013 (SPX)
University of Alberta researchers were certainly surprised when they discovered the unusual response of pikas to patches of vegetation that had previously been ...
Sea stalactites provide clues to origin of life
Apr 26, 2013 (SPX)
Life on Earth may have originated not in warm tropical seas, but with weird tubes of ice - sometimes called "sea stalactites" - that grow downward into cold sea...
EU court maintains seal fur ban
Apr 25, 2013 (AFP)
An EU court in a much-anticipated ruling Thursday upheld a 2010 ban on seal products, throwing out an appeal by fur traders including native Inuit from Canada a...
Iceberg bigger than Guam drifting from Antarctica
Apr 24, 2013 (UPI)
An iceberg -- bigger than the island of Guam and six times larger than Manhattan -- is slowly drifting away from Antarctica. The giant chunk of ice calved from ...
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