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PCBs levels down in Norwegian polar bears
Apr 02, 2012 (SPX)
It's never been easy to be a polar bear. They may have to go months without eating. Their preferred food, seal, requires enormous luck and patience to catch. Ad...
Mammoth extinction not due to inbreeding
Mar 24, 2012 (UPI)
A British study on the extinction of woolly mammoths found the last known population of the prehistoric animals did not die out because of inbreeding. The study...
Energy requirements make Antarctic fur seal pups vulnerable to climate change
Mar 23, 2012 (SPX)
A new study suggests that climate change could pose a risk for Antarctic fur seals in their first few months of life. The study, published in the journal Physio...
Increase in Arctic shipping poses risk to marine mammals
Mar 21, 2012 (SPX)
A rapid increase in shipping in the formerly ice-choked waterways of the Arctic poses a significant increase in risk to the region's marine mammals and the loca...
NASA's IceBridge 2012 Arctic Campaign Takes to the Skies
Mar 20, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers and flight crew with NASA's Operation IceBridge, an airborne mission to study changes in polar ice, began another season of science activity with th...
Greenland ice sheet may melt completely with 1.6 degrees global warming
Mar 19, 2012 (SPX)
The Greenland ice sheet is likely to be more vulnerable to global warming than previously thought. The temperature threshold for melting the ice sheet completel...
S. Korean, Russian scientists bid to clone mammoth
Mar 13, 2012 (AFP)
Russian and South Korean scientists signed a deal Tuesday on joint research intended to recreate a woolly mammoth, an animal which last walked the earth some 10...
China to conduct Arctic expedition
Mar 13, 2012 (IANS)
Chinese scientists will conduct an expedition to the Arctic region through the Northeast Passage that extends along the northern coast of Russia, an official sa...
NASA Finds Thickest Parts of Arctic Ice Cap Melting Faster
Mar 12, 2012 (SPX)
A new NASA study revealed that the oldest and thickest Arctic sea ice is disappearing at a faster rate than the younger and thinner ice at the edges of the Arct...
Greenland icesheet more vulnerable than thought to warming
Mar 11, 2012 (AFP)
The Greenland icesheet is more sensitive to global warming than thought, for just a relatively small -- but very long term -- temperature rise would melt it com...
Dust linked to increased glacier melting and ocean productivity
Mar 09, 2012 (SPX)
A University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science-led study shows a link between large dust storms on Iceland and glacial melting. ...
Sand layer plays a key role in protecting the underlying permafrost in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
Mar 06, 2012 (SPX)
The permafrost is degrading, and at the same time, the desertification is also developing at the surface of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, under the condition of global...
'Alien' seeds threaten Antarctica's landscape: study
Mar 06, 2012 (AFP)
Foreign seeds are hitching rides on scientists and tourists to the Antarctic and could someday upset the ecology of the warmest patches of the remote land, inte...
Moon to blame for sinking of Titanic?
Mar 06, 2012 (UPI)
While no one denies an iceberg sank the liner Titanic 100 year ago, there may have been another culprit that put it there, U.S. scientists say -- the moon. Rese...
Ice dam collapses at Argentine glacier
Mar 04, 2012 (AFP)
An ice dam at Argentina's Perito Moreno glacier collapsed early Sunday, creating an impressive spectacle not seen since July 2008, although few tourists were ac...
Even in winter, life persists in Arctic Seas
Feb 29, 2012 (SPX)
Despite brutal cold and lingering darkness, life in the frigid waters off Alaska does not grind to a halt in the winter as scientists previously suspected. Acco...
Conservationists call for huge Antarctic marine reserve
Feb 28, 2012 (AFP)
A coalition of environment groups called Tuesday for the world's largest marine reserve to be declared in Antarctica's Ross Sea to prevent "industrial scale" fi...
Loss of Antarctic base deals Brazil a major blow
Feb 26, 2012 (AFP)
The destruction of Brazil's Antarctic base in a fire that killed two navy personnel has dealt a major blow to the country's strategic research on the resource-r...
Glaciers: A window into human impact on the global carbon cycle
Feb 22, 2012 (SPX)
New clues as to how the Earth's remote ecosystems have been influenced by the industrial revolution are locked, frozen in the ice of glaciers. That is the findi...
As ice melts in Far North, opportunities abound to advance Canada's oceanic laws
Feb 21, 2012 (SPX)
Thinning ice resulting from climate change in the Arctic is happening far faster than experts previously imagined. With it come new global shipping routes and g...
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