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Chinese ship sinks off Antarctica: Chile
Apr 23, 2013 (AFP)
A Chinese refrigerator ship that caught fire last week off Antarctica has sunk, the Chilean navy announced. Around 90 crew members had been rescued from the ves...
Age matters to Antarctic clams
Apr 22, 2013 (SPX)
A new study of Antarctic clams reveals that age matters when it comes to adapting to the effects of climate change. The research provides new insight and unders...
Fossils provide insight into origin of unique Antarctic ecosystem
Apr 19, 2013 (SPX)
The circum-Antarctic Southern Ocean is an important region for global marine food webs and carbon cycling because of sea-ice formation and its unique plankton e...
An SwRI-led remote-sensing study quantifies permafrost degradation in Arctic Alaskan wetlands
Apr 19, 2013 (SPX)
A team of geoscientists from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) using newly available remote-sensing technology has achieved unprecedented detail in quantifyin...
Prince Harry to trek to South Pole with wounded troops
Apr 19, 2013 (AFP)
Britain's Prince Harry is to join a team of wounded war veterans in a race to the South Pole, he announced on Friday. The third-in-line to the throne, who is 28...
Pleas for US to name first ambassador to Arctic
Apr 18, 2013 (AFP)
Top US diplomat John Kerry said Thursday he would mull ways to deepen US engagement in the Arctic amid pleas from lawmakers to name America's first ambassador t...
New insight into accelerating summer ice melt on the Antarctic Peninsula
Apr 16, 2013 (SPX)
A new 1000-year Antarctic Peninsula climate reconstruction shows that summer ice melting has intensified almost ten-fold, and mostly since the mid 20th Century....
Recent climate, glacier changes in Antarctica at the 'upper bound' of normal
Apr 16, 2013 (SPX)
In the last few decades, glaciers at the edge of the icy continent of Antarctica have been thinning, and research has shown the rate of thinning has accelerated...
New technology helps paleontologists see Ice-Age bee in intricate detail
Apr 14, 2013 (UPI)
Scientists in California recently used CT scanning technology to capture remarkably detailed photos of an Ice Age bee, preserved in a nest of ancient leaves. Th...
Scientists predict arctic could be free of sea ice in summer by 2050
Apr 12, 2013 (UPI)
Two U.S. scientists say it's not a question of "if" there will be nearly ice-free summers in the arctic but "when," and sooner than many think. National Oceanog...
New chart shows the entire topography of the Antarctic seafloor in detail
Apr 12, 2013 (SPX)
Reliable information on the depth and floor structure of the Southern Ocean has so far been available for only few coastal regions of the Antarctic. An internat...
New Models Predict Dramatically Greener Arctic in the Coming Decades
Apr 12, 2013 (SPX)
Rising temperatures will lead to a massive "greening" of the Arctic by mid-century, as a result of marked increases in plant cover, according to research suppor...
Austria's glaciers shrank in 2012: study
Apr 12, 2013 (AFP)
Nearly all of Austria's glaciers shrank significantly last year, with one glacier receding a record 97.3 metres (319.2 feet), the Austrian Alpine Association (O...
Trouble in Penguin Paradise? UC Research Analyzes Antarctic Ice Flow
Apr 12, 2013 (SPX)
University of Cincinnati student Shujie Wang has discovered that a good way to monitor the environmental health of Antarctica is to go with the flow - the ice f...
Pioneering study calculates Arctic Ocean nutrient budget
Apr 12, 2013 (SPX)
The first study of its kind to calculate the amount of nutrients entering and leaving the Arctic Ocean has been carried out by scientists based at the National ...
Climate change winners: Adelie penguin population expands as ice fields recede
Apr 11, 2013 (SPX)
Adelie penguins may actually benefit from warmer global temperatures, the opposite of other polar species, according to a breakthrough study by an international...
Discovery of 1,800-year-old 'Rosetta Stone' for tropical ice cores
Apr 09, 2013 (SPX)
Two annually dated ice cores drawn from the tropical Peruvian Andes reveal Earth's tropical climate history in unprecedented detail-year by year, for nearly 1,8...
Byrd Came Oh-So-Close, But Probably Didn't Reach North Pole
Apr 09, 2013 (SPX)
When renowned explorer Richard E. Byrd returned from the first-ever flight to the North Pole in 1926, he sparked a controversy that remains today: Did he actual...
New models predict drastically greener Arctic in coming decades
Apr 05, 2013 (SPX)
New research predicts that rising temperatures will lead to a massive "greening," or increase in plant cover, in the Arctic. In a paper published on March 31 in...
Ice cores preserve 1,800 years of climate
Apr 05, 2013 (UPI)
Two ice cores from the tropical Peruvian Andes reveal Earth's detailed tropical climate history year by year for nearly 1,800 years, researchers say. Researcher...
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