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Clouds Could Explain How Snowball Earth Thawed Out
Nov 14, 2012 (SPX)
Glaciation events during the Neoproterozoic (524-to-1,000 million years ago) and Paleoproterozoic (1,600-to-2,500 million years ago) periods - events that spawn...
No accord yet on Antarctic protected zone
Nov 09, 2012 (UPI)
Talks toward an international agreement on establishing protected marine zones in Antarctica are inconclusive and may not make any headway until next July. Last...
Carbon dioxide - our salvation from a future ice age?
Nov 09, 2012 (SPX)
Mankind's emissions of fossil carbon and the resulting increase in temperature could prove to be our salvation from the next ice age. According to new research ...
UMass Amherst climate modeler identifies trigger for Earth's last big freeze
Nov 08, 2012 (SPX)
For more than 30 years, climate scientists have debated whether flood waters from melting of the enormous Laurentide Ice Sheet, which ushered in the last major ...
U.S., New Zealand in Antarctic proposal
Nov 08, 2012 (UPI)
U.S. and New Zealand officials say they've reached agreement on a proposal to establish the world's largest marine protected area in the Antarctic's Ross Sea. T...
Russia backs its claims for Arctic Shelf with evidence
Nov 07, 2012 (Voice of Russia)
A Russian expedition has finished investigations which were meant to prove that the Arctic Shelf in the Arctic Ocean is a continuation of the Eurasian continent...
Antarctic ocean sanctuary talks end in failure
Nov 02, 2012 (AFP)
Conservation groups expressed outrage Friday after resistance led by China and Russia stymied efforts to carve out new marine sanctuaries and protect thousands ...
Britain to keep Antarctic research group
Nov 02, 2012 (UPI)
A plan to scrap the British Antarctic Survey, an acclaimed scientific institution, was dropped after opposition was voiced, officials said. The government-funde...
Two Perfect Days for IceBridge
Oct 31, 2012 (SPX)
After two no-fly days for aircraft maintenance and weather, IceBridge surveyed the Ronne Ice Shelf grounding line and took high-altitude measurements of four gl...
Polar bears seen taking refuge on icebergs
Oct 30, 2012 (UPI)
A previously unsuspected sanctuary for polar bears in the arctic has been discovered, the makers of a British television documentary say. An estimated 20 polar ...
Biologists record increasing amounts of plastic litter in the Arctic deep sea
Oct 29, 2012 (SPX)
The sea bed in the Arctic deep sea is increasingly strewn with litter and plastic waste. As reported in the advance online publication of the scientific journal...
Italian snow levels, glaciers retreating
Oct 26, 2012 (UPI)
Climate change in Italy's mountainous areas is causing snow levels to retreat and the snow line in some areas is moving upward by 2,000 feet, researchers say. T...
Opposite Behaviors? Arctic Sea Ice Shrinks, Antarctic Grows
Oct 26, 2012 (SPX)
The steady and dramatic decline in the sea ice cover of the Arctic Ocean over the last three decades has become a focus of media and public attention. At the op...
Australia's Antarctic runway melting
Oct 24, 2012 (AFP)
Australia said Wednesday it was searching for a new aircraft landing site for planes supplying its three bases in Antarctica because the current runway is melti...
New understanding of Antarctic's weight-loss
Oct 23, 2012 (SPX)
New data which more accurately measures the rate of ice-melt could help us better understand how Antarctica is changing in the light of global warming. The rate...
Leonardo DiCaprio urges Antarctic ocean sanctuary
Oct 23, 2012 (AFP)
Leonardo DiCaprio urged a high-level Antarctic conservation meeting in Australia Tuesday to approve a sweeping Southern Ocean marine sanctuary to protect thousa...
Arctic seafloor said littered with plastic
Oct 23, 2012 (UPI)
The seabed in the arctic deep ocean is increasingly strewn with litter and plastic waste, a German researcher says, with twice as much debris as ten years ago. ...
Green groups presses Antarctica meet to expand marine haven
Oct 18, 2012 (AFP)
Thirty environmental groups on Thursday issued a joint appeal for upcoming talks on establishing protected zones in the seas off East Antarctica to widen the sc...
Ice sheet retreat controlled by the landscape
Oct 17, 2012 (SPX)
Ice-sheet retreat can halt temporarily during long phases of climate warming, according to scientists. A UK team led by Durham University has found that the geo...
1 by land and 1 by sea
Oct 17, 2012 (SPX)
NASA's Operation IceBridge got the 2012 Antarctic campaign off to a productive start with a land ice survey of Thwaites Glacier and a sea ice flight over parts ...
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