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Antarctic species threatened by willful misinterpretation of legal treaty
Oct 23, 2015 (SPX)
Countries are loosely interpreting the legal meaning of "rational use" of natural resources to escalate fishing efforts in Antarctic waters and hinder efforts t...
Formation of coastal sea ice in North Pacific drives ocean circulation
Oct 21, 2015 (SPX)
An unprecedented analysis of North Pacific ocean circulation over the past 1.2 million years has found that sea ice formation in coastal regions is a key driver...
U.S. Airmen begin Operation Deep Freeze in Antarctica
Oct 20, 2015 (UPI)
The New York Air National Guard's ski-equipped LC-130 Hercules aircraft and aircrew departed for McMurdo Station in Antarctica for Operation Deep Freeze. The op...
Pakistan facing climate 'calamity' if warnings go unheeded
Oct 20, 2015 (AFP)
Karachi, 2050: The sprawling megacity lies crumbling, desiccated by another deadly heatwave, its millions of inhabitants suffering life-threatening water shorta...
Russia builds massive Arctic military base
Oct 20, 2015 (AFP)
Russia's defence ministry said Tuesday it has built a giant military base in the far northern Arctic where 150 soldiers can live autonomously for up to 18 month...
Warming opens famed Northwest Passage to navigation
Oct 20, 2015 (AFP)
Beneath the Aurora Borealis an oil tanker glides through the night past the Coast Guard ice breaker Amundsen and vanishes into the maze of shoals and straits of...
Vast Antarctic marine reserves in focus at Australia talks
Oct 19, 2015 (AFP)
Campaigners Monday urged global leaders to put aside differences and create two vast Antarctic marine sanctuaries to protect one of the world's last untouched w...
2015 Antarctic maximum sea ice extent breaks streak of record highs
Oct 16, 2015 (SPX)
The sea ice cover of the Southern Ocean reached its yearly maximum extent on Oct. 6. At 7.27 million square miles (18.83 million square kilometers), the new max...
Shift in weaning age supports hunting-induced extinction of Siberian woolly mammoths
Oct 16, 2015 (SPX)
Chemical clues about weaning age embedded in the tusks of juvenile Siberian woolly mammoths suggest that hunting, rather than climate change, was the primary ca...
Study sees powerful winds carving away Antarctic snow
Oct 15, 2015 (SPX)
A new study has found that powerful winds are removing massive amounts of snow from parts of Antarctica, potentially boosting estimates of how much the continen...
New study projects that melting of Antarctic ice shelves will intensify
Oct 13, 2015 (SPX)
New research published projects a doubling of surface melting of Antarctic ice shelves by 2050 and that by 2100 melting may surpass intensities associated with ...
Scientists catch billions of juvenile fish under arctic sea ice
Oct 13, 2015 (UPI)
Polar cod are a vital food source for whales, narwhals, ringed seals and arctic seabirds, but researchers have had a hard time studying these fish and estimatin...
Could 'The Day After Tomorrow' happen?
Oct 13, 2015 (SPX)
A researcher from the University of Southampton has produced a scientific study of the climate scenario featured in the disaster movie 'The Day After Tomorrow'....
The law of the landscape for glaciers
Oct 12, 2015 (SPX)
Fast glaciers are much more effective at gouging landscapes than slow-moving ones, a new study finds. The results may explain a phenomenon that has long puzzled...
Study details Greenland's ice sheet plumbing system
Oct 09, 2015 (UPI)
Researchers from the University of Exeter think subglacial lakes will be more frequently drained as global warming continues. In a new study published in the jo...
Arctic Militarization 'Moot Point' - NORAD Commander
Oct 09, 2015 (Sputnik)
US head of Northern Command and Commander of NORAD Admiral William Gortney said that the Arctic has already been militarized by both the United States and Russi...
Observed latitudinal variations in erosion as a function of glacier dynamics
Oct 08, 2015 (SPX)
Climate change is causing more than just warmer oceans and erratic weather. According to scientists, it also has the capacity to alter the shape of the planet. ...
The warmer the higher: Sea-level rise from Filchner-Ronne ice in Antarctica
Oct 08, 2015 (SPX)
The more ice is melted of the Antarctic Filchner-Ronne shelf, the more ice flows into the ocean and the more the region contributes to global sea-level rise. Wh...
A simpler way to estimate the feedback between permafrost carbon and climate
Oct 08, 2015 (SPX)
One of the big unknowns in predicting climate change is the billions of tons of carbon frozen in Arctic permafrost. As global warming causes soil temperatures t...
Climate change: Inuit culture on thin ice
Oct 06, 2015 (AFP)
Residents of the sub-Arctic village of Umiujaq wistfully remember the good old days, when the ice-fishing season was long and the catch bountiful. That was befo...
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