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Arctic bacteria help find life on Jupiter`s Icy Moon

It is not easy to search for life on one of Jupiter’s icy moons: Europa as just getting there can be...

Mystery behind rising sea levels unlocked

Global sea levels rose by an average of 1.8mm per year from 1961-2003, according to data from tide g...

Octopus `hints at West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse`

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet -- one of the world`s major ice sheets, could collapse if global warmin...

New weak point of Antarctic ice sheet found

An inflow of warmer water beneath the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf will melt the ice from below.

Antarctic ice melting from warm water below: Study

Antarctica`s massive ice shelves are shrinking because they are being eaten away from below by warm ...

CryoSat offers view of changes in Arctic sea-ice thickness

After almost a year and a half of operations, CryoSat has yielded its first seasonal variation map o...

Arctic methane leaks accelerating global warming

The researchers have uncovered a surprising and potentially important new source of Arctic methane: ...

China installs largest optical telescope in Antarctica

A Chinese expedition team to Antarctica has finished installing and testing the largest optical tele...

As ice cap melts, militaries vie for Arctic edge

By Arctic standards, the region is already buzzing with military activity, and experts believe that ...

Space pictures pick up lots more penguins

Scientists counting emperor penguins from space have found twice as many of the birds in Antarctica ...

Satellites monitor icebergs in Arctic to prevent another Titanic doom

International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea and the International Ice Patrol is planning ...

Emperor penguins count double from Space!

Scientists counting emperor penguins from space have found twice as many of the birds in Antarctica ...

Satellite records Antarctica ice shelf`s retreat

The European Space Agency`s Envisat satellite continues to record the rapid retreat of one of Antarc...

Antarctic ice shelf may be disintegrating rapidly

ESA’s Envisat satellite, which marks ten years in orbit, is continuing to observe the rapid retreat ...

India`s 3rd research base in Antarctica begins on trial basis

India has done a soft launch of its third research station in Antarctica`s Larsemann Hills region.

Antarctic blue ice `rising`

Antarctica`s Blue ice region of the ice sheet has increased in height.

Scientists pin down historic sea level rise

The collapse of an ice sheet in Antarctica up to 14,650 years ago might have caused sea levels to ri...

$West Antarctic ice shelves may be `fracturing and retreating inland`$

West Antarctic ice shelves may be `fracturing and retreating inland`

Floating ice shelves of a critical portion of West Antarctica are gradually losing their hold on adj...

Coldest, deepest Antarctic water `mysteriously shrinking`

The coldest deep ocean water that flows around Antarctica in the Southern Ocean has been strangely d...

Future sea-level rise predicted in 3-mn-yr-old rocks

The height of ancient sea level indicates Greenland and the western part of Antarctica had no ice sh...

Warming Antarctic alters penguin breeding cycles

Higher temperatures brought on by global warming are already affecting the breeding cycles of three ...

Sea-level rise may be lower than earlier estimates

A new study has lowered past estimates of sea-level rise, but warns that it’s still a drastic change...

Swedes scour mountains for missing Norwegian plane

Swedish rescue helicopters and snowmobiles raced to a remote spot the Arctic mountains on Friday, ho...

Algae bloom can be seen from space

The bloom, which is about 200 km wide and 100 km long, has been described by scientists as a "remark...

China to conduct 5th Arctic expedition in 2012

China will conduct its fifth Arctic expedition this year, the State Oceanic Administration (SOA) sai...

Alien invasion a threat to Antarctic ecosystem

In the pristine frozen continent of Antarctica scientists fear an alien invasion -- not from outer s...

UK scientists to help satellites dodge sun storms

British scientists have developed a system to help protect navigation and communications satellites ...

`Loss of Arctic sea ice may up mercury deposits`

Declines in perennial Arctic sea ice over the past decade may be intensifying a chemical reaction th...

Thickest Arctic Sea ice melting much faster

The thicker ice, known as multi-year ice, survives through the cyclical summer melt season, when you...

Arctic melt linked to winter extremes in Europe

The record-breaking cold that gripped Europe this winter could be tied to a surprising culprit -- a ...

Antarctic-like salty, water sucking soil could exist on Mars too

The frigid dry valleys in Antarctica may be a polar desert, yet their sandy soils actually suck mois...

Arctic sea ice decline may be behind current cold

Shrinking arctic ice could be triggering widespread cold outbreaks in the Northern Hemisphere in rec...

Fire at Brazil`s Antarctic base kills 2, injures 1

The blaze broke out in the machine room that houses the energy generators of the Comandante Ferraz s...

Race is on to find life under Antarctic ice sheet

The race is on to discover life in the most remote and extreme environment known on Earth.

Scientists melt mystery over icecaps, sea levels

Sea levels have already risen on average about 18 centimeters since 1900.

Putin hails Antarctic lake discovery

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has praised Russian scientists who have reached a gigantic freshwater ...

Earth losing roughly 150 bn tons of ice annually

Greenland, Antarctica and global glaciers and ice caps lost roughly 8 times the volume of Lake Erie ...

Experts may reach bottom of Lake Vostok in 2014

Russian scientists are planning to use robotic probes to reach water layers at the bottom of an anci...

Russian scientists drill into Antarctic lake buried under ice

Russian scientists claim to have achieved a major breakthrough by drilling into Antarctic lake burie...

Arctic changes could spell dire consequences

The first signs of dangerous climate change in the Arctic could spell dire consequences for the whol...

Large dome of fresh water detected in Arctic Ocean

With the help of ESA satellites, scientists have discovered that a large dome of fresh water has bee...

Strong quake rattles remote Antarctica

A strong and shallow 6.5-magnitude earthquake rocked the remote South Shetland Islands region in A...

Severe Arctic ozone depletions could occur again

With continuous global climate change, scientists fear that another record Arctic ozone similar to t...

8000 ft under Antarctic sea – A lost world

British scientists have discovered what they claim is a "lost world" of unknown species nearly 8,0...

Remains of giant dinosaur discovered on Antarctica

Palaeontologists claim to have found the remains of a titanosaur, the family of giant plant-eating d...

Antarctica mapped `sans ice`

The map, BEDMAP2, gives the close-up view of Antarctica without its ice.

Arctic growing warmer and greener: Scientists

An international team of scientists has found that persistent warming has caused dramatic changes in...

Drop in CO2 triggered polar ice sheet formation

A drop in carbon dioxide (CO2) levels seems to have triggered Antarctic ice sheet formation.

`Arctic much worse since 2006`

Federal officials say the Arctic region has changed dramatically in the past five years — for the wo...

Traces from old N-tests found in Antarctic moss

Nuclear weapons, tested 50 years ago, have left their imprint on living moss shoots in the Antarctic...

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