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2013 Wintertime Arctic Sea Ice Maximum Fifth Lowest on Record

Apr 05, 2013 (SPX)

Last September, at the end of the northern hemisphere summer, the Arctic Ocean's icy cover shrank to its lowest extent on record, continuing a long-term trend a...

Thin clouds drove Greenland's record-breaking 2012 ice melt

Apr 04, 2013 (SPX)

If the sheet of ice covering Greenland were to melt in its entirety tomorrow, global sea levels would rise by 24 feet. Three million cubic kilometers of ice won...

Recommendations for Streamlining Scientific Logistics in Antarctica

Apr 02, 2013 (SPX)

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued a summary response to the recommendations of an external panel of experts that was charged with advising the ag...

Summer melt season is getting longer on the Antarctic Peninsula

Apr 01, 2013 (SPX)

New research from the Antarctic Peninsula shows that the summer melt season has been getting longer over the last 60 years. Increased summer melting has been li...

China plans more Antarctica research sites

Apr 01, 2013 (UPI)

China says it plans to create two new scientific research stations in Antarctica and have them operational by 2015. An expedition team is conducting inspections...

Arctic 'greening' seen through global warming

Mar 31, 2013 (AFP)

Land within the Arctic circle is likely to experience explosive "greening" in the next few decades as grass, shrubs and trees thrive in soil stripped of ice and...

The long winter ahead

Mar 26, 2013 (ESA)

Secluded from civilisation and living in a white desert, the crew at the Concordia research base in Antarctica have settled in to their home and are ready for t...

For polar bears, it's survival of the fattest

Mar 25, 2013 (SPX)

One of the most southerly populations of polar bears in the world - and the best studied - is struggling to cope with climate-induced changes to sea ice, new re...

NASA Begins New Season of Arctic Ice Science Flights

Mar 25, 2013 (SPX)

NASA's Operation IceBridge scientists have begun another season of research activity over Arctic ice sheets and sea ice with the first of a series of science fl...

Significant contribution of Greenland's peripheral glaciers to sea-level rise

Mar 24, 2013 (SPX)

The scientists looked at glaciers which behave independently from the ice sheet, despite having some physical connection to it, and those which are not connecte...

Antarctica's first whale skeleton found with 9 new deep-sea species

Mar 21, 2013 (SPX)

Marine biologists have, for the first time, found a whale skeleton on the ocean floor near Antarctica, giving new insights into life in the sea depths. The disc...

US backs Antarctic reserve amid calls for fishing ban

Mar 19, 2013 (AFP)

Hailing the waters of Antarctica as a living laboratory, the United States has joined Australia and New Zealand in appealing for the creation of marine sanctuar...

Sweden's FM touts Iceland patrols

Mar 19, 2013 (UPI)

Sweden says it is seeking to strengthen defense ties with Iceland by participating in a joint Nordic operation to provide surveillance for its airspace. Swedish...

The making of Antarctica's hidden fjords

Mar 12, 2013 (SPX)

topography began changing from flat to fjord-filled starting about 34 million years ago, according to a new report from a University of Arizona-led team of geos...

Global warming will open unexpected new shipping routes in Arctic, UCLA researchers find

Mar 12, 2013 (SPX)

Shipping lanes through the Arctic Ocean won't put the Suez and Panama canals out of business anytime soon, but global warming will make these frigid routes much...

Rivers flowing under Greenland ice traced

Mar 12, 2013 (UPI)

Scientists say artificial gas tracers pumped into water at the surface of the Greenland ice sheet revealed a hidden network of rivers flowing beneath it. Tracki...

Glaciers will melt faster than ever and loss could be irreversible warn scientists

Mar 11, 2013 (SPX)

Canada's Arctic Archipelago glaciers will melt faster than ever in the next few centuries. Research by European funded scientists has shown that 20 per cent of ...

Yeti Helps Conquer Some Abominable Polar Hazards

Mar 11, 2013 (SPX)

A century after Western explorers first crossed the dangerous landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctic, researchers funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF...

Canada's glaciers could shrink by a fifth by 2100

Mar 07, 2013 (AFP)

A fifth of Canada's glaciers could be gone by the end of the century, a casualty of global warming that would drive a 1.4-inch (3.5-centimeter) rise in sea leve...

What Lies Beneath: NASA Antarctic Sub Goes Subglacial

Mar 07, 2013 (JPL)

When researcher Alberto Behar from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., joined an international Antarctic expedition last month on a trek to in...