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Combined Arctic ice observations show decades of lossSeattle WA (SPX) Mar 04, 2015 It's no surprise that Arctic sea ice is thinning. What is new is just how long, how steadily, and how much it has declined. University of Washington researchers compiled modern and historic measurements to get a full picture of how Arctic sea ice thickness has changed. The results, published in The Cryosphere, show a thinning in the central Arctic Ocean of 65 percent between 1975 and 2012. September ice thickness, when the ice cover is at a minimum, is 85 percent thinner for the same 37-year stret ... read more |
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 The hidden burden of dengue fever in West Africa Origins of AIDS virus strains traced to gorillas Predicting human crowds with statistical physics Parasite provides clues to evolution of plant diseases Combined Arctic ice observations show decades of loss Neurons controlling appetite made from skin cells | .. |
 Arctic sea ice loss expected to be bumpy in the short term Arctic sea ice extent plunged precipitously from 2001 to 2007, then barely budged between 2007 and 2013. Even in a warming world, researchers should expect such unusual periods of no change--and rap ... more | .. |
 Arctic ice cap slides into the ocean Satellite images have revealed that a remote Arctic ice cap has thinned by more than 50 metres since 2012 - about one sixth of its original thickness - and that it is now flowing 25 times faster. ... more | .. |
 Murkowski: Obama's Alaska move an act of war The Obama administration has declared war on the economic future of Alaska by proposing new acreage as protected wilderness, congressional leaders said. ... more | .. |
 Scientists find translucent fish living under Antarctic ice shelf It shouldn't be all that surprising at this point - living organisms defying the odds, that is. Life continues to turn up in the oddest places. This time, it's a fish scrounging out a lonely, frigid existence some 2,500 feet under the surface of Antarctica in a tiny wedge of seawater surrounded by ice. ... more |
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 Obama recommends extended wilderness zone in Alaska US President Barack Obama said Sunday he would recommend a large swath of Alaska be designated as wilderness, the highest level of federal protection, in a move angering state oil proponents. ... more | .. |
 Antarctic drill team first to reach where ice, ocean and land converge Using a specially designed hot-water drill to cleanly bore through a half mile of ice, a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded team of researchers has become the first ever to reach and sample th ... more | .. |
 UNL drillers help make new Antarctic discoveries Using a hot-water drill and an underwater robotic vehicle designed, built and operated by a University of Nebraska-Lincoln engineering team, scientists have made new discoveries about Antarctica's g ... more | .. |
 Giant atmospheric rivers add mass to Antarctica's ice sheet Extreme weather phenomena called atmospheric rivers were behind intense snowstorms recorded in 2009 and 2011 in East Antarctica. The resulting snow accumulation partly offset recent ice loss from th ... more |
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 Canada to stage helicopter wolf hunt to save caribou A government plan to shoot up to 184 wolves from a helicopter to reduce their population and save caribou herds in western Canada drew sharp criticism from conservation groups Friday. ... more | .. |
 Chinese company takes over Greenland mine project Greenland has transferred a large iron ore licence to a Chinese company after now-bankrupt British London Mining was unable to fulfil its 30-year commitment to the multi-billion dollar project. ... more | .. |
 Fossils reveal past, and possible future, of polar ice The balmy islands of Seychelles couldn't feel farther from Antarctica, but their fossil corals could reveal much about the fate of polar ice sheets. About 125,000 years ago, the average global ... more | .. |
 Sea Shepherd in epic chase of Antarctic 'poaching' ship Environmental activist group Sea Shepherd said Friday it has been chasing a "poaching" ship for three weeks amid heavy ice flows in an attempt to stop the crew from illegal fishing in the Southern Ocean. ... more |
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 Underwater drones map ice algae in Antarctica New robot technology leads Antarctic exploration into a new epoch. It is now possible to study the underside of sea ice across large distances and explore a world previously restricted to specially ... more | .. |
 Why is Greenland covered in ice? The ice on Greenland could only form due to processes in the deep Earth interior. Large-scale glaciations in the Arctic only began about 2.7 million years ago; before that, the northern hemisphere w ... more | .. |
 New science materializes from once-stuck Antarctica expedition ship Just a year ago, the ship Akademik Shokalskiy became trapped in the ice floes of Antarctica. It had arrived carrying a crew intent on both recreating and honoring the scientific expedition of Douglas Mawson a century prior. ... more | .. |
 Four rescued from boat stuck in Antarctic Argentina and Chile joined forces to rescue four people who were trapped after their Polish-flagged vessel got stuck on King George island on the edge of Antarctica, Chile's navy said Wednesday. ... more |
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 China's moon rover Yutu functioning but stationary OSIRIS catches glimpse of Rosetta's shadow NASA-Funded Study Finds Two Solar Wind Jets in the Heliosphere Industry backs US government's spaceport plans UK Space Agency's second CubeSat mission is taking shape Old-economy sectors are now tech, too: US study | .. |
 Methane is leaking from permafrost offshore Siberia Yamal Peninsula in Siberia has recently become world famous. Spectacular sinkholes, appeared as out of nowhere in the permafrost of the area, sparking the speculations of significant release of gree ... more | .. |
 North Atlantic signalled Ice Age thaw 1,000 years before it happened The Atlantic Ocean at mid-depths may have given out early warning signals - 1,000 years in advance - that the last Ice Age was going to end, scientists report in the journal Paleoceanography. Scient ... more | .. |
 Migrating 'supraglacial' lakes could trigger future Greenland ice loss Predictions of Greenland ice loss and its impact on rising sea levels may have been greatly underestimated, according to scientists at the University of Leeds. The finding follows a new study, ... more | .. |
 Glacier beds can get slipperier at higher sliding speeds As a glacier's sliding speed increases, the bed beneath the glacier can grow slipperier, according to laboratory experiments conducted by Iowa State University glaciologists. They say includin ... more |
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 Hidden Movements of Greenland Ice Sheet, Runoff Revealed For years NASA has tracked changes in the massive Greenland Ice Sheet. This week scientists using NASA data released the most detailed picture ever of how the ice sheet moves toward the sea and new ... more | .. |
 Warming leads to more run-ins with polar bears Word spread quickly: a polar bear, then two, were spotted near this remote Inuit village on the shores of Hudson Bay, about 1,800 kilometers (1,120 miles) north of Montreal. ... more | .. |
 The Greenland Ice Sheet: Now in HD The Greenland Ice Sheet is ready for its close-up. The highest-resolution satellite images ever taken of that region are making their debut. And while each individual pixel represents only one momen ... more | .. |
Sea Shepherd confronts illegal Antarctic poaching vessel Environmental activist group Sea Shepherd said Thursday it confronted a ship known for poaching Patagonian toothfish and other rare species in the Antarctic, part of its efforts to target illegal fishing in the Southern Ocean. ... more |
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