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Breaking Through the Ice at Lake Vostok
Feb 21, 2012 (SPX)
Europa on Earth - that's just what Antarctica's deep and dark Lake Vostok could be. A body of water the size of Lake Ontario, it lies beneath more than two mile...
Chile to build up Antarctic military base
Feb 20, 2012 (UPI)
Chile is going ahead with a multibillion-dollar plan that includes building up its Antarctic defense capability, opening tourist corridors to the frozen contine...
Fish of Antarctica threatened by climate change
Feb 16, 2012 (SPX)
A Yale-led study of the evolutionary history of Antarctic fish and their "anti-freeze" proteins illustrates how tens of millions of years ago a lineage of fish ...
Despite Nobel tiff, Oslo backs China Arctic Council entry
Feb 14, 2012 (AFP)
Norway said Tuesday it supports China's bid for observer status on the Arctic Council despite a diplomatic row over the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to Chinese dissid...
NASA Mission Takes Stock of Earth's Melting Land Ice
Feb 13, 2012 (JPL)
In the first comprehensive satellite study of its kind, a University of Colorado at Boulder-led team used NASA data to calculate how much Earth's melting land i...
Putin receives 'prehistoric' water from Antarctic lake
Feb 10, 2012 (AFP)
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was given a water sample Friday taken from a pristine lake hidden under Antarctic ice for over a million years, after Russian scie...
CU-Boulder study shows global glaciers, ice caps, shedding billions of tons of mass annually
Feb 09, 2012 (SPX)
Earth's glaciers and ice caps outside of the regions of Greenland and Antarctica are shedding roughly 150 billion tons of ice annually, according to a new study...
Himalayan meltdown not so fast after all: study
Feb 09, 2012 (AFP)
Himalayan glaciers and ice caps that supply water to more than a billion people in Asia are losing mass up to 10 times less quickly than once feared, reports a ...
First plants caused ice ages
Feb 08, 2012 (SPX)
New research reveals how the arrival of the first plants 470 million years ago triggered a series of ice ages. Led by the Universities of Exeter and Oxford, the...
Russia drills down to pristine Antarctic Lake: scientists
Feb 08, 2012 (AFP)
Russian scientists on Wednesday announced they had drilled deep through Antartica's icesheet to reach a pristine lake untouched for tens of thousands of years. ...
Land-cover changes do not impact glacier loss
Feb 07, 2012 (SPX)
The composition of land surface - such as vegetation type and land use - regulates the interaction of radiation, sensible heat and humidity between the land sur...
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