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NASA's Operation IceBridge Resumes Flights Over Antarctica
Oct 15, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists and flight crew members with Operation IceBridge, NASA's airborne mission to study Earth's changing polar ice, are beginning another campaign over An...
Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches New Maximum Extent
Oct 12, 2012 (SPX)
Two weeks after a new record was set in the Arctic Ocean for the least amount of sea ice coverage in the satellite record, the ice surrounding Antarctica reache...
Polarstern returns with new findings from the Central Arctic during the 2012 ice minimum
Oct 11, 2012 (SPX)
Polarstern is expected back from the Central Arctic expedition "IceArc" in Bremerhaven on 8 October 2012 after a good two months. 54 scientists and technicians ...
ESA satellites looking deeper into sea ice
Oct 10, 2012 (ESA)
This year, satellites saw the extent of Arctic sea ice hit a record low since measurements began in the 1970s. ESA's SMOS and CryoSat satellites are now taking ...
DRI scientist co-authors study outlining vast differences in polar ocean microbial communities
Oct 10, 2012 (SPX)
An international team of scientists, led by Dr. Alison Murray, an Associate Research Professor at the Desert Research Institute's Division of Earth and Ecosyste...
Russian boy discovers 'woolly mammoth of the century'
Oct 05, 2012 (AFP)
An 11-year-old boy from a nomadic family in Russia's north has stumbled upon a massive well-preserved woolly mammoth, in what scientists describe as the best su...
Life found in lake frozen for centuries
Oct 04, 2012 (UPI)
The world's most northerly lake, entombed under a layer of ice 2,400 years ago, is thawing and showing a return of organic life, European researchers say. The f...
Australian tycoon fined for Arctic party cruise
Oct 02, 2012 (AFP)
Warming has opened up the Arctic to shipping and now also raucous tourists, say Canadian authorities who last month levied $10,000 in fines against an Australia...
Study: Arctic warming faster than before
Sep 28, 2012 (UPI)
The arctic hasn't been as warm as now for about 1,800 years and scientists are trying to establish how that will affect Earth's climate. The current spike in th...
Melting Arctic ice cap at record low
Sep 26, 2012 (SPX)
Think of a poor hamster on a spinning wheel, caught up by momentum and unable to stop until it's overwhelmed, sent tumbling, crashing out of control inside. Tha...
Rudolph unfed loathes rain, dear
Sep 26, 2012 (AFP)
Arctic reindeer have no problems with snowstorms but are badly affected by rain, a finding that has implications for assessing how climate change affects wildli...
Warming ocean could start big shift of Antarctic ice
Sep 21, 2012 (SPX)
Fast-flowing and narrow glaciers have the potential to trigger massive changes in the Antarctic ice sheet and contribute to rapid ice-sheet decay and sea-level ...
Arctic Sea Ice Hits Smallest Extent In Satellite Era
Sep 21, 2012 (SPX)
The frozen cap of the Arctic Ocean appears to have reached its annual summertime minimum extent and broken a new record low on Sept. 16, the National Snow and I...
Shrinking snow depth on Arctic sea ice threatens ringed seal habitat
Sep 19, 2012 (SPX)
As sea ice in the Arctic continues to shrink during this century, more than two thirds of the area with sufficient snow cover for ringed seals to reproduce also...
Arctic sea ice shrinks to lowest level on record: US
Sep 19, 2012 (AFP)
Arctic sea ice has shrunk to its smallest surface area since record-keeping began, taking the world into "uncharted territory" as climate change intensifies, US...
Alpine glaciers contribute to carbon cycling
Sep 19, 2012 (SPX)
An international collaboration led by Tom Battin from the Department of Limnology of the University of Vienna unravels the role of Alpine glaciers for carbon cy...
'Planetary emergency' due to Arctic melt, experts warn
Sep 19, 2012 (AFP)
Experts warned Wednesday of a "planetary emergency" due to the unforeseen global consequences of Arctic ice melt, including methane gas released from permafrost...
How fast can ice sheets respond to climate change?
Sep 18, 2012 (SPX)
A new Arctic study in the journal Science is helping to unravel an important mystery surrounding climate change: How quickly glaciers can melt and grow in respo...
Himalayan glaciers retreating at accelerated rate in some regions but not others
Sep 18, 2012 (SPX)
Glaciers in the eastern and central regions of the Himalayas appear to be retreating at accelerating rates, similar to those in other areas of the world, while ...
Brazil to begin rebuilding its burned Antarctic base
Sep 17, 2012 (AFP)
Three navy supply ships will head for Antarctica next month to begin rebuilding a Brazilian naval base destroyed by a deadly fire in February, Defense Minister ...
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