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Antarctic lake reached after millennia
Jan 10, 2013 (UPI)
Russian researchers say they've obtained the first sample of transparent ice from the water of a unique sub-glacial lake in Antarctica. The scientists have dril...
A New Way to Study Permafrost Soil, Above and Below Ground
Jan 09, 2013 (SPX)
What does pulling a radar-equipped sled across the Arctic tundra have to do with improving our understanding of climate change? It's part of a new way to explor...
A new approach to assessing future sea level rise from ice sheets
Jan 09, 2013 (SPX)
The study, published in Nature Climate Change, is the first of its kind on ice sheet melting to use structured expert elicitation (EE) together with an approach...
Bering Sea study finds prey density more important to predators than biomass
Jan 07, 2013 (SPX)
Marine resource managers often gauge the health of species based on overall biomass, but a new study of predator-prey relationships in the Bering Sea found that...
Fiennes sails for Antarctica on first winter crossing bid
Jan 07, 2013 (AFP)
Veteran adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes sailed for the Antarctic on Monday, leading a team bidding to become the first to cross the continent in winter in what h...
As globe warms, Alaska is cooling down
Jan 07, 2013 (UPI)
Despite a global trend of warming climate, Alaska has been experiencing a widespread cooling pattern for at least a decade, scientists say. In the first decade ...
Study shows rapid warming on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Dec 28, 2012 (SPX)
In a discovery that raises further concerns about the future contribution of Antarctica to sea level rise, a new study finds that the western part of the ice sh...
CryoSat hits land
Dec 27, 2012 (ESA)
ESA's ice mission is now giving scientists a closer look at oceans, coastal areas, inland water bodies and even land, reaching above and beyond its original obj...
Antarctic science drill project called off
Dec 27, 2012 (UPI)
British scientists say they've abandoned an attempt to drill through 1.8 miles of Antarctic ice to a lake sealed off for thousands of years. The British Antarct...
NASA's Operation IceBridge Data Brings New Twist to Sea Ice Forecasting
Dec 24, 2012 (SPX)
Shrinking Arctic sea ice grabbed the world's attention again earlier this year with a new record low minimum. Growing economic activity in the Arctic, such as f...
W. Antarctic warming among world's fastest
Dec 24, 2012 (UPI)
The western portion of Antarctica is warming twice as fast as previously thought and triple the world's average temperature rise, U.S. scientists say. The tempe...
Antarctic ice sheet warming faster than thought: study
Dec 23, 2012 (AFP)
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet, whose melt may be responsible for 10 percent of the sea-level rise caused by climate change, is warming twice as quickly as previo...
Chief's hunger strike fuels Canada aboriginal drive
Dec 21, 2012 (AFP)
A native chief's hunger strike in view of Canada's parliament has inspired an aboriginal rights movement and massive protests across Canada and far beyond its b...
Antarctic ice cores a window to the past
Dec 21, 2012 (UPI)
Scientist say they've managed to obtain a bedrock sample from Antarctica that could yield information on the climate of the frozen continent 30,000 years ago. A...
'Missing' polar weather systems could impact climate predictions
Dec 19, 2012 (SPX)
Intense but small-scale polar storms could make a big difference to climate predictions according to new research from the University of East Anglia and the Uni...
Top Officials Meet at ONR as Arctic Changes Quicken
Dec 18, 2012 (SPX)
The Navy's chief of naval research, Rear Adm. Matthew Klunder, met this week with leaders from U.S. and Canadian government agencies to address research efforts...
Invasive species said threat to Antarctica
Dec 18, 2012 (UPI)
An invasive species, a tiny insect, has the potential to drastically alter Antarctic ecosystems isolated for millions of years, British researchers say. Scienti...
Australia plans drill of ancient Antarctic ice core
Dec 15, 2012 (AFP)
Australia Saturday announced plans to drill a 2,000 year-old ice core in the heart of Antarctica in a bid to retrieve a frozen record of how the planet has evol...
More ice loss through snowfall on Antarctica
Dec 14, 2012 (SPX)
Stronger snowfall increases future ice discharge from Antarctica. Global warming leads to more precipitation as warmer air holds more moisture - hence earlier r...
Greenland ice sheet carries evidence of increased atmospheric acidity
Dec 13, 2012 (SPX)
Research has shown a decrease in levels of the isotope nitrogen-15 in core samples from Greenland ice starting around the time of the Industrial Revolution. The...
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