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Surviving without ice
Sep 17, 2012 (SPX)
With sea ice in the Arctic melting to record lows in summer months, marine animals living there face dramatic changes to their environment. Yet some crustaceans...
Little Ice Age led to migration of island hopping arctic foxes
Sep 14, 2012 (SPX)
The Little Ice Age allowed a new wave of arctic foxes to colonise Iceland, according to new research. A "bridge" of sea ice appeared during a dip in temperature...
Sailboat navigates once-frozen Arctic waterway
Sep 11, 2012 (AFP)
A three-man sailing expedition for the first time has navigated the once-frozen Northwest Passage, a perilous Arctic route made accessible only because of melti...
Glacial thinning has sharply accelerated at major South American icefields
Sep 07, 2012 (SPX)
For the past four decades scientists have monitored the ebbs and flows of the icefields in the southernmost stretch of South America's vast Andes Mountains, det...
Russia's unique economic position in the Arctic
Sep 05, 2012 (Voice of Russia)
Historically, the Arctic Region has been part and parcel of the Russian economy. Due to the decades-long support from the Russian government, it boasts a powerf...
Russia charges Greenpeace activists in polar bear protest
Sep 05, 2012 (AFP)
Russia on Wednesday charged 10 Greenpeace activists, some in polar bear costumes, after breaking up a protest against oil drilling in the Arctic outside the hea...
Major world interests at stake in Canada's vast Mackenzie River Basin
Sep 04, 2012 (SPX)
The governance of Canada's massive Mackenzie River Basin holds enormous national but also global importance due to the watershed's impact on the Arctic Ocean, i...
Study suggests large methane reservoirs beneath Antarctic ice sheet
Aug 31, 2012 (SPX)
The Antarctic Ice Sheet could be an overlooked but important source of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, according to a report in the August 30 issue of Nature ...
Thawing permafrost frees millions of tons of carbon: study
Aug 29, 2012 (AFP)
A vast outcrop of the Arctic Siberian coast that had been frozen for tens of thousands of years is releasing huge carbon deposits as rising temperatures thaw pa...
Netherlands: Arctic energy rules needed
Aug 29, 2012 (UPI)
New international rules are needed to protect the arctic environment as it is targeted for more energy exploration, the Netherlands said this week. Dutch Minist...
NASA's IceBridge Seeking New View of Changing Sea Ice
Aug 29, 2012 (SPX)
This year scientists working on NASA's Operation IceBridge, a multi-year airborne science mission to study changing ice conditions at both poles, debuted a new ...
Arctic Sea Ice Shrinks To New Low In Satellite Era
Aug 28, 2012 (SPX)
The extent of the sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean has shrunk. According to scientists from NASA and the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSID...
Antarctic ice sheet quakes shed light on ice movement and earthquakes
Aug 28, 2012 (SPX)
Analysis of small, repeating earthquakes in an Antarctic ice sheet may not only lead to an understanding of glacial movement, but may also shed light on stick s...
In climate landmark, Arctic ice melts to record low
Aug 27, 2012 (AFP)
The sea ice in the Arctic Ocean has melted to its smallest point ever in a milestone that may show that worst-case forecasts on climate change are coming true, ...
Arctic ice melts to record low: US researchers
Aug 27, 2012 (AFP)
The sea ice in the Arctic Ocean has melted to its smallest ever level in the latest dramatic sign of the long-term impact of global warming, US researchers said...
New climate history adds to understanding of recent Antarctic Peninsula warming
Aug 27, 2012 (SPX)
Results published this week by a team of polar scientists from Britain, Australia and France adds a new dimension to our understanding of Antarctic Peninsula cl...
Greenpeace raids Russian Arctic oil platform
Aug 24, 2012 (AFP)
Greenpeace activists on Friday raided an Arctic oil rig owned by Russian group Gazprom that next year will controversially pioneer commercial drilling in one of...
Google online maps embark on Arctic adventure
Aug 22, 2012 (AFP)
Google set out Wednesday to take users of its free online mapping service on an Arctic adventure with help from an Inuit community in the Canadian tundra. Prime...
Man partly to blame for Antarctic ice shelf collapse: study
Aug 22, 2012 (AFP)
An ice core extracted from an Antarctic islet has yielded further evidence of the impact of man-made warming on the frozen continent, fuelling concern for the f...
Arctic cap on course for record melt: US scientists
Aug 21, 2012 (AFP)
The Arctic ice cap is melting at a startlingly rapid rate and may shrink to its smallest-ever level within weeks as the planet's temperatures rise, US scientist...
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