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LSU researchers find new information about 'Snowball Earth' period
Mar 07, 2013 (SPX)
It is rather difficult to imagine, but approximately 635 million years ago, ice may have covered a vast portion of our planet in an event called "Snowball Earth...
Remains of extinct giant camel discovered in High Arctic by Canadian Museum of Nature
Mar 07, 2013 (SPX)
A research team led by the Canadian Museum of Nature has identified the first evidence for an extinct giant camel in Canada's High Arctic. The discovery is base...
Robot can help in polar expeditions
Mar 04, 2013 (UPI)
An autonomous robot dubbed "Yeti" could help explorers in the arctic and Antarctica avoid deadly crevasses hidden in ice-covered landscapes, researchers say. Re...
Frostbitten British explorer Fiennes returns home
Mar 04, 2013 (AFP)
British explorer Ranulph Fiennes showed off a heavily bandaged hand as he returned home Monday following his evacuation from Antarctica with severe frostbite, a...
Caves point to thawing of Siberia
Feb 28, 2013 (SPX)
Evidence from Siberian caves suggests that a global temperature rise of 1.5 degrees Celsius could see permanently frozen ground thaw over a large area of Siberi...
Dramatic extent of Great Lakes freeze captured by NASA satellite
Feb 28, 2013 (UPI)
NASA says a satellite has provided dramatic visual evidence of the extent of freezing in the Great Lakes, with ice coverage at its greatest since 1994. A true-c...
Ancestors of America's original people lived on long-gone land bridge
Feb 27, 2013 (UPI)
Ancestors of North America's indigenous peoples paused en route from Asia, spending 10,000 years on the Bering Land Bridge, now under the sea, researchers say. ...
Fiennes's evacuation from Antarctica under way
Feb 27, 2013 (AFP)
The evacuation of injured British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes from Antarctica got under way Wednesday after the veteran adventurer was forced to pull out of a ...
Data paper describes Antarctic biodiversity data gathered by 90 expeditions since 1956
Feb 26, 2013 (SPX)
A new peer-reviewed data paper offers a comprehensive, open-access collection of georeferenced biological information about the Antarctic macrobenthic communiti...
Frostbite ends Fiennes winter Antarctic expedition bid
Feb 25, 2013 (AFP)
Veteran British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes has pulled out of an attempt at the world's first Antarctic winter crossing due to frostbite, the expedition said M...
Reduced sea ice disturbs balance of greenhouse gases
Feb 22, 2013 (SPX)
The widespread reduction in Arctic sea ice is causing significant changes to the balance of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. This is shown in a new study con...
ArcticNet will help improve standard of living in Canada's north
Feb 21, 2013 (SPX)
Northern communities are in the midst of a period of intense and rapid change brought on by modernization, industrialization and the realities of climate change...
Flow of research on ice sheets helps answer climate questions
Feb 21, 2013 (SPX)
Just as ice sheets slide slowly and steadily into the ocean, researchers are returning from each trip to the Arctic and Antarctic with more data about climate c...
Extreme winters impact fish negatively
Feb 21, 2013 (SPX)
Ecologists from Umea University and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim have studied fish communities and fish habitat and reviewed ...
NASA Scientists Part of Arctic Sea Ice Study
Feb 19, 2013 (SPX)
New research using combined records of ice measurements from NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat), the European Space Agency's CryoSat-2 sate...
Rapid changes in Arctic ecosystem during 2012 ice minimum
Feb 18, 2013 (SPX)
Huge quantities of algae are growing on the underside of sea ice in the Central Arctic: in 2012 the ice algae Melosira arctica was responsible for almost half t...
Ice age extinction shaped Australian plant diversity
Feb 18, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers have shown that part of Australia's rich plant diversity was wiped out by the ice ages, proving that extinction, instead of evolution, influences bi...
European sat data confirms UW numbers that Arctic is on thin ice
Feb 18, 2013 (SPX)
The September 2012 record low in Arctic sea-ice extent was big news, but a missing piece of the puzzle was lurking below the ocean's surface. What volume of ice...
Antarctic subglacial lake may soon reveal its secrets
Feb 15, 2013 (Voice of Russia)
Scientists from the Russian Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute have taken samples of water from Lake Vostok in Antarctic. This lake is hidden under a 3.5-k...
Sunlight stimulates release of carbon dioxide from permafrost
Feb 14, 2013 (SPX)
Ancient carbon trapped in Arctic permafrost is extremely sensitive to sunlight and, if exposed to the surface when long-frozen soils melt and collapse, can rele...
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