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Will The Ice Age Strike Back
Jun 11, 2012 (SPX)
The dramatic melt-off of Arctic sea ice due to climate change is hitting closer to home than millions of Americans might think. That's because melting Arctic se...
Cornell researchers warn that Arctic ice melt is setting stage for severe winters
Jun 11, 2012 (SPX)
The dramatic melt-off of Arctic sea ice due to climate change is hitting closer to home than millions of Americans might think. That's because melting Arctic se...
Secure, sustainable funding for Indigenous participation in Arctic Council a key priority
Jun 08, 2012 (SPX)
Finding a new way to fund the full participation of northern indigenous groups with Permanent Participant status at the Arctic Council in all of the organizatio...
Expedition studies acid impacts on Arctic
Jun 07, 2012 (SPX)
The effects of ocean acidification on Arctic seas will be studied by a team of 30 researchers, including Dr Toby Tyrrell from the University of Southampton, who...
Huge algae blooms discovered beneath Arctic ice
Jun 07, 2012 (AFP)
A NASA mission to study the tiny algae vital to the ocean's food chain has turned up a massive amount of phytoplankton where scientists least expected it -- und...
Greenland's current loss of ice mass
Jun 04, 2012 (SPX)
The Greenland ice sheet continues to lose mass and thus contributes at about 0.7 millimeters per year to the currently observed sea level change of about 3 mm p...
Old aerial photos supply new knowledge on glaciers in Greenland
Jun 04, 2012 (SPX)
The glaciers in southeast Greenland are retreating rapidly with the ongoing global climate change. But now research from the University of Copenhagen shows that...
Peru needs glacier loss monitoring: dire UN warning
Jun 03, 2012 (AFP)
Peru needs a permanent monitoring system to gauge Andean mountain glacier shrinkage caused by global warming, and its effect on people who depend on the ice for...
Discovery Of Historical Photos Sheds Light On Greenland Ice Loss
Jun 01, 2012 (SPX)
A chance discovery of 80-year-old photo plates in a Danish basement is providing new insight into how Greenland glaciers are melting today. Researchers at the N...
New theory addresses frozen Earth paradox
May 30, 2012 (UPI)
A U.S. scientist says he has a theory why a much fainter sun 2 billion years ago didn't leave a frozen Earth unfit to develop the kind of life we see today. Why...
New Study by WHOI Scientists Provides Baseline Measurements of Carbon in Arctic Ocean
May 25, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have conducted a new study to measure levels of carbon at various depths in the Arctic Ocean. Th...
Illuminating the Ancient History of Circumarctic Peoples
May 25, 2012 (SPX)
Two studies led by scientists from the University of Pennsylvania and National Geographic's Genographic Project reveal new information about the migration patte...
Toxic mercury, accumulating in the Arctic, springs from a hidden source
May 24, 2012 (SPX)
Environmental scientists at Harvard have discovered that the Arctic accumulation of mercury, a toxic element, is caused by both atmospheric forces and the flow ...
Russia's Antarctic probes to be tested in Ladoga Lake
May 22, 2012 (Voice of Russia)
Scientists with the St. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) and the Mining Institute have created several p...
Scientists discover new site of potential instability in West Antarctic Ice Sheet
May 21, 2012 (SPX)
Using ice-penetrating radar instruments flown on aircraft, a team of scientists from the U.S. and U.K. have uncovered a previously unknown sub-glacial basin nea...
Farewell to the Sun
May 18, 2012 (ESA)
The crew of the French-Italian Concordia research base in the Antarctic saw their last rays of Sun for over four months last weekend. Near the South Pole, the o...
Antarctic octopuses 10,000km apart genetically similar
May 15, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists at the University have found that genetic information on the Antarctic octopus supports studies indicating that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could ha...
Climate scientists discover new weak point of the Antarctic ice sheet
May 15, 2012 (SPX)
The Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf fringing the Weddell Sea, Antarctica, may start to melt rapidly in this century and no longer act as a barrier for ice streams drai...
Russia's Antarctic probes to be tested in Ladoga Lake
May 15, 2012 (Voice of Russia)
Scientists with the St. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) and the Mining Institute have created several p...
Analysis of Speed of Greenland Glaciers Gives New Insight for Rising Sea Level
May 14, 2012 (SPX)
Changes in the speed that ice travels in more than 200 outlet glaciers indicates that Greenland's contribution to rising sea level in the 21st century could be ...
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