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Argentina court upholds glacier protections against mining
Jul 03, 2012 (AFP)
Argentina's supreme court has upheld key articles of a law aimed at protecting glaciers, despite a legal challenge from mining companies, including Canadian gia...
Study: Wrong diet doomed 1912 polar try
Jun 29, 2012 (UPI)
Members of an ill-fated British expedition to the South Pole in 1912 were effectively killed by the equivalent of a modern slimming diet, research has shown. Ca...
Scientists to produce first 3-D models of Arctic sea ice
Jun 29, 2012 (AFP)
Scientists working with Greenpeace will undertake an expedition to the Arctic that will produce the first 3D models of the Arctic sea ice, the group said on Fri...
Greenland ice may exaggerate magnitude of 13,000-year-old deep freeze
Jun 27, 2012 (SPX)
Ice samples pulled from nearly a mile below the surface of Greenland glaciers have long served as a historical thermometer, adding temperature data to studies o...
Canada builds up arctic region defenses
Jun 26, 2012 (UPI)
Canada is building up arctic defenses as part of its long-term program of projecting Canadian presence in a region increasingly claimed by competing powers. Eff...
Emperor penguins threatened by Antarctic sea ice loss
Jun 26, 2012 (SPX)
A decline in the population of emperor penguins appears likely this century as climate change reduces the extent of Antarctic sea ice, according to a detailed p...
Melting Sea Ice Threatens Emperor Penguins
Jun 25, 2012 (SPX)
At nearly four feet tall, the Emperor penguin is Antarctica's largest sea bird-and thanks to films like "March of the Penguins" and "Happy Feet," it's also one ...
Arctic climate more vulnerable than thought, maybe linked to Antarctic ice-sheet behavior
Jun 22, 2012 (SPX)
First analyses of the longest sediment core ever collected on land in the terrestrial Arctic, published this week in Science, provide documentation that intense...
Climate drilling in the Arctic Circle
Jun 22, 2012 (SPX)
During the past 2.8 million years extreme warm periods occurred in the Arctic at irregular intervals. Analytical results from the longest sediment core that has...
New deglaciation data opens door for earlier First Americans migration
Jun 22, 2012 (SPX)
A new study of lake sediment cores from Sanak Island in the western Gulf of Alaska suggests that deglaciation there from the last Ice Age took place as much as ...
Remote Siberian Lake Holds Clues to Arctic - and Antarctic - Climate Change
Jun 22, 2012 (SPX)
Intense warm climate intervals - warmer than scientists thought possible - have occurred in the Arctic over the past 2.8 million years. That result comes from t...
Elephant seals help uncover slower-than-expected Antarctic melting
Jun 22, 2012 (SPX)
Don't let the hobbling, wobbling, and blubber fool you into thinking elephant seals are merely sluggish sun bathers. In fact, scientists are benefiting from the...
Paul McCartney, Penelope Cruz join 'Arctic sanctuary' drive
Jun 21, 2012 (AFP)
Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney, actress Penelope Cruz and director Robert Redford have joined a campaign for a "global sanctuary" around the North Pole, Greenpeace an...
Arctic once had extreme warm periods: study
Jun 21, 2012 (AFP)
An international team of scientists said Thursday that the Arctic went through ice-free periods of extreme warmth over the past 2.8 million years, based on a ne...
Spanish Scientist Participate in the Most Comprehensive Study Ever Done on Ice
Jun 19, 2012 (SPX)
A group composed of 17 scientists from 11 different countries has published the most comprehensive study ever done on ice in the world. The study addresses the ...
Warm Climate - Cold Arctic?
Jun 19, 2012 (SPX)
The Eemian interglacial period that began some 125,000 years ago is often used as a model for contemporary climate change. In the international journal "Geophys...
Divide the Antarctic to protect native species, propose experts
Jun 18, 2012 (SPX)
An international team of scientists have published the first continent-wide assessment of the Antarctic's biogeography, and propose that the landmass should be ...
Arctic getting greener
Jun 15, 2012 (SPX)
Recent years' warming in the Arctic has caused local changes in vegetation, reveals new research by biologists from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and el...
North-East Passage soon free from ice again
Jun 14, 2012 (SPX)
The North-East Passage, the sea route along the North coast of Russia, is expected to be free of ice early again this summer. The forecast was made by sea ice p...
NASA Discovers Unprecedented Blooms of Ocean Plant Life
Jun 12, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists have made a biological discovery in Arctic Ocean waters as dramatic and unexpected as finding a rainforest in the middle of a desert. A NASA-sponsore...
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