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Polar bears older than previously thought: study
Apr 19, 2012 (AFP)
Polar bears diverged from their closest relatives 600,000 years ago, far earlier than previously thought, suggesting more challenges in the face of climate chan...
CU-Boulder study shows Greenland may be slip-sliding away due to surface lake melt
Apr 18, 2012 (SPX)
Like snow sliding off a roof on a sunny day, the Greenland Ice Sheet may be sliding faster into the ocean due to massive releases of meltwater from surface lake...
China seeking to expand role in Arctic
Apr 16, 2012 (AFP)
China will seek a larger role in the Arctic region during an upcoming visit by Premier Wen Jiabao to Iceland and Sweden and wants observer status in the Arctic ...
No ice loss seen in major Himalayan glaciers: scientists
Apr 15, 2012 (AFP)
One of the world's biggest glacier regions has so far resisted global warming that has ravaged mountain ice elsewhere, scientists reported on Sunday. For years,...
Penguins aplenty in Antarctica, satellite map shows
Apr 13, 2012 (AFP)
Antarctica boasts almost twice as many emperor penguins as previously thought, researchers have discovered using satellite mapping technology to count the icebe...
Long-term studies detect effects of disappearing snow and ice
Apr 12, 2012 (SPX)
Ecosystems are changing worldwide as a result of shrinking sea ice, snow, and glaciers, especially in high-latitude regions where water is frozen for at least a...
Long-term research reveals causes and consequences of environmental change
Apr 11, 2012 (SPX)
As global temperatures rise, the most threatened ecosystems are those that depend on a season of snow and ice, scientists from the nation's Long Term Ecological...
Satellite observes rapid ice shelf disintegration in Antarctic
Apr 11, 2012 (ESA)
As ESA's Envisat satellite marks ten years in orbit, it continues to observe the rapid retreat of one of Antarctica's ice shelves due to climate warming. One of...
Canada, Denmark could split tiny Arctic island
Apr 11, 2012 (AFP)
Canada and Denmark are close to settling a decades-old territorial dispute over a tiny island in the Arctic, a Canadian newspaper said Wednesday. Negotiators ha...
42,000-year-old baby mammoth on show in Hong Kong
Apr 11, 2012 (AFP)
The world's best-preserved mammoth, buried about 42,000 years ago, will go on display in Hong Kong this week, the organiser of its first exhibition in Asia said...
Ice sheet collapse and sea-level rise at the Bolling warming 14,600 years ago
Apr 11, 2012 (SPX)
International scientists have shown that a dramatic sea-level rise occurred at the onset of the first warm period of the last deglaciation, known as the Bolling...
China plans to build research icebreaker
Apr 09, 2012 (UPI)
China says it plans for a new icebreaker, now in the design stage, to be ready to begin polar research operations in 2014. The home-produced vessel will team up...
Chile navy rescues four from Antarctic ship
Apr 09, 2012 (AFP)
Four Brazilians filming a documentary off the Antarctic coast were rescued by the Chilean navy after their ship became stuck in the ice, Chilean media said Mond...
Thawing permafrost may have led to extreme global warming events
Apr 05, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists analysing prehistoric global warming say thawing permafrost released massive amounts of carbon stored in frozen soil of Polar Regions exacerbating cl...
Thawing permafrost 50 million years ago led to global warming events
Apr 05, 2012 (SPX)
In a new study reported in Nature, climate scientist Rob DeConto of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and colleagues elsewhere propose a simple new mechan...
Rising CO2 levels linked to global warming during last deglaciation
Apr 05, 2012 (SPX)
Many scientists have long suspected that rising levels of carbon dioxide and the global warming that ended the last Ice Age were somehow linked, but establishin...
Coldest antarctic water said disappearing
Apr 04, 2012 (UPI)
The amount of coldest deep ocean water in the Southern Ocean, called Antarctic Bottom Water, has been decreasing for decades, researchers say. Oceanographers fr...
In blow for sceptics, carbon dioxide ended last Ice Age
Apr 04, 2012 (AFP)
Carbon dioxide (CO2) was the big driver that ended the last Ice Age, scientists said on Wednesday in a study that undermines a key argument by global-warming sc...
Meet Kimberly Casey: Studying How Debris Influences Glaciers
Apr 03, 2012 (SPX)
Kimberly Casey is a glaciologist who spends a fair amount of time in the office analyzing satellite data. But when she talks about her fieldwork on remote glaci...
CO2 was hidden in the ocean during the Ice Age
Apr 03, 2012 (SPX)
Why did the atmosphere contain so little carbon dioxide (CO2) during the last Ice Age 20,000 years ago? Why did it rise when the Earth's climate became warmer? ...
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