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#937202013-05-16
Arctic biodiversity degrades, says Arctic Council
The Arctic Biodiversity Assessment (ABA) released at the Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting on Wednesday said the Arctic biodiversity has degraded.
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#936902013-05-15
Polar meltdown top challenge for Arctic Council
Last Thursday, the eight-country Arctic Council was reminded of the issues they face by an event faraway in Hawaii. For the first time in probably three million years, the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere averaged above 400 parts per million for an entire day.
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#935932013-05-09
Seafood diet killing Arctic foxes on Russian island
An isolated population of Arctic foxes that dines only on marine animals seems to be slowly succumbing to mercury poisoning.
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#931752013-04-10
Science 'javelins' spear Pine Island Glacier
UK scientists have developed an air-dropped projectile to put instruments in some of the most inaccessible places in Antarctica.
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#926512013-03-08
Penguins go cold to warm up
GLASGOW, Scotland, March 7 (UPI) -- Emperor penguins allow their outer feathers to actually become colder than the surrounding air in order to minimize heat loss, European researchers say.
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#926532013-03-08
Antarctic Lake Vostok yields 'new bacterial life'
Russian scientists have claimed the discovery of a new type of bacterial life in water from a buried Antarctic lake.
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#926052013-03-06
Polar bear trade ban 'too close to call'
An attempt to ban the international trade in polar bear parts has provoked a heated battle at the Cites conservation meeting in Bangkok.
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#924022013-02-21
Antarctic Biodiversity Data Gathered by 90 Expeditions Since 1956 Summarized
Feb. 19, 2013 — A new peer-reviewed data paper offers a comprehensive, open-access collection of georeferenced biological information about the Antarctic macrobenthic communities.
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#923172013-02-19
U.N. urges protection of arctic regions
UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- As melting arctic sea ice brings an international rush to claim the region's resources, measures are needed to avoid damage in the region, a U.N. report says.
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#921582013-02-13
Is it time to feed the polar bears?
Several top polar bear scientists are considering what might once have seemed unthinkable: Please feed the bears.
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#920802013-02-08
Waste Dump at the End of the World: Ecologists Propose Managing Strategies to Protect the Antarctic
Feb. 7, 2013 — On their mission to the moon in 1969 the Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin created arguably the most famous footprints ever.
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#920582013-02-07
Polar bears 'may need to be fed by humans to survive'
Drastic measures are required to save the beleaguered animal from extinction, say scientists
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#920172013-02-05
Polar Bear Researchers Urge Governments to Act Now and Save the Species
Feb. 4, 2013 — A University of Alberta polar bear researcher and 11 international co-authors are urging governments to start planning for rapid Arctic ecosystem change to deal with a climate change catastrophe for the animals.
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#917362013-01-10
Newly discovered colony of penguins receives first human visitors
Experts from Belgian research station in Antarctica are first to visit and photograph 9,000-strong emperor penguin colony
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#915722012-12-13
Lake Ellsworth drilling: First images emerge
New pictures from Antarctica capture the moment that a search for life under the ice-sheet finally got under way.
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#915172012-12-10
Polar bears could be extinct in 25 years: Experts
For a millennium, the majestic, lily-white polar bear has lorded over the frozen wastes of the Arctic. But if two Russian experts are to be believed, the enigmatic "monarch of the ice" could be extinct in 25 years due to global warming and human incursions into their traditional habitat.
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#915322012-12-10
Arctic Report Card: Dark Times Ahead
Conditions in the Arctic, where several environmental records were broken this year, are slipping rapidly from bad to worse as the pace of climate change accelerates in that region
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#914172012-12-03
Greenland and Antarctica ice melt accelerating, pushing sea levels higher
A massive team of scientists have used multiple methods to provide the best assessment yet of ice loss at the world's poles, including Greenland and a number of Antarctic ice sheets.
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#913512012-11-30
Sea-level rise from polar ice melt finally quantified
Melting of polar ice sheets has added 11mm to global sea levels over the past two decades, according to the most definitive assessment so far.
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#910172012-11-02
Setback for Antarctic wildlife: Nations fail to agree on plan to protect seas around Antarctica
Environmentalists criticize failure to protect area from overfishing, climate change, pollution
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#910182012-11-02
British Antarctic Survey merger plan ruled out
Plans to merge the British Antarctic Survey and the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) have been ruled out, the science minister has announced.
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#910222012-11-02
Disappointment as Antarctic protection bid fails
Plans for huge marine reserves founder at international meeting.
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#909832012-10-31
Polar bears seen taking refuge on icebergs
IQALUIT, Nunavut, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- A previously unsuspected sanctuary for polar bears in the arctic has been discovered, the makers of a British television documentary say.
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#904202012-09-21
Ice-Free Arctic Is “Uncharted Territory”
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Sep 20 2012 (IPS) - The melt of Arctic sea ice has reached its lowest point this year, shrinking 18 percent from last year’s near-record low.
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#904212012-09-21
Now you don’t
IN 2007 climate scientists were shocked when the regular summer retreat of the Arctic’s sea ice went far farther than they had ever seen before. In the spring of that year ice covered just under 15m km2 (5.8m square miles) of ocean—an area 90% as big as Russia.
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#902912012-09-18
Loss of sea ice threatens arctic seals
SEATTLE, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- An arctic seal species is threatened as two thirds of sea ice with enough snow cover for them to reproduce is at risk of disappearing, U.S. researchers say.
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#902272012-09-17
Arctic expert predicts final collapse of sea ice within four years
One of the world's leading ice experts has predicted the final collapse of Arctic sea ice in summer months within four years.
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#902132012-09-14
Surviving Without Ice: Arctic Crustaceans Use Currents, Deep-Water Migration to Survive Sea Ice Melts
ScienceDaily (Sep. 13, 2012) — With sea ice in the Arctic melting to record lows in summer months, marine animals living there face dramatic changes to their environment.
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#899412012-08-28
Arctic sea ice reaches record low, Nasa says
The Arctic has lost more sea ice this year than at any time since satellite records began in 1979, Nasa says.
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#898852012-08-23
Antarctica warmth 'unusual, but not unique'
The recent Antarctic Peninsula temperature rise and associated ice loss is unusual but not unprecedented, according to research
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#898562012-08-21
Arctic sea ice set to hit record low
Arctic sea ice looks set to hit a record low by the end of the month, according to satellite data.
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#897792012-08-15
Arctic sea ice heads for record low
Going, going… Next month could see Arctic sea ice shrink to its smallest extent yet, beating the previous record, set in 2007. Any such record will be driven by unusual weather, but is also a result of underlying warming.
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#895842012-07-31
Humpback Whales Staying in Antarctic Bays Later Into Autumn
ScienceDaily (July 30, 2012) — Large numbers of humpback whales are remaining in bays along the Western Antarctic Peninsula to feast on krill late into the austral autumn, long after their annual migrations to distant breeding grounds were believed to begin, according to a new Duke University study.
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#892412012-07-16
Tibetan glaciers shrinking rapidly
The majority of glaciers on the Tibetan plateau and in the surrounding region are retreating rapidly, according to a study based on 30 years of satellite and field measurements.
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#888142012-06-21
Rio+20: Sir Paul backs Greenpeace Arctic campaign
Greenpeace is launching a campaign to have the Arctic region declared a sanctuary by the United Nations.
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#885992012-06-13
Scientists to follow disappearing penguins
WELLINGTON, New Zealand, June 12 (UPI) -- New Zealand scientists say they want to try to solve the mystery of the disappearance of a rapidly declining penguin species every winter.
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#885062012-06-11
Melting Arctic 'blooms' with algae
(CNN) -- Scientists in the Arctic have discovered the largest ever under-ice bloom of phytoplankton, likening the discovery to "finding the Amazon rainforest in the middle of the Mojave Desert."
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#884482012-06-07
Arctic waters rich in marine plants
WASHINGTON, June 7 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've found ocean waters in the arctic richer in microscopic marine plants essential to all sea life than any other ocean region on Earth.
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#880742012-05-22
Protect Antarctic waters before it's too late, says environment coalition
The Antarctic Ocean Alliance is urging the UK government to protect one of the last true frontier areas before it is damaged irreparably by human interference
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#873892012-04-24
Cryosat mission's new views of polar ice
Europe's Cryosat mission is now watching the ebb and flow of Arctic sea ice with high precision.
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#873462012-04-20
Arctic fishing moratorium needed, scientists say
A group of more than 2,000 scientists from 67 countries has called for a moratorium on commercial fishing in the Arctic until more research can be completed on waters that were once covered by ice year-round.
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#871942012-04-13
Satellite mapping pinpoints penguin population
(Reuters) - Counting emperor penguins in their icy Antarctic habitat was not easy until researchers used new technology to map the birds from space, and they received a pleasant penguin surprise for their efforts.
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#870822012-04-05
Coldest antarctic water said disappearing
SEATTLE, April 4 (UPI) -- The amount of coldest deep ocean water in the Southern Ocean, called Antarctic Bottom Water, has been decreasing for decades, researchers say.
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#870922012-04-05
Some of Alaska's polar bears are losing fur
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – Alaska polar bears are losing their fur and U.S. Geological Survey scientists don't know why.
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#870632012-04-04
New Report On the State of Polar Regions
ScienceDaily (Apr. 3, 2012) — The U.S. National Research Council has just released a synthesis of reports from thousands of scientists in 60 countries who took part in the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-08, the first in over 50 years to offer a benchmark for environmental conditions and new ...
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#865952012-03-13
Enormous algal bloom floats near Antarctica
An unprecedented algal bloom is making a splash in the Southern Ocean. Unlike in some other aquatic areas, the bloom there could be a blessing rather than a curse.
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#852132012-01-23
Arctic Ocean freshwater bulge detected
UK scientists have detected a huge dome of freshwater that is developing in the western Arctic Ocean.
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#850662012-01-13
Antarctic lake drilling mission edges closer
An ambitious plan to explore a vast lake trapped beneath the Antarctic ice is a step closer to becoming reality.
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#843812011-12-08
Polar bear 'cannibalism' pictured
An adult polar bear is seen dragging the body of a cub that it has just killed across the Arctic sea ice.
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#839982011-11-24
Arctic sea ice loss 'unprecedented', study finds
The loss of sea ice in the Arctic at the end of the 20th Century is “unprecedented” in the past 1,450 years in its duration and magnitude, an indication of human-influenced climate change, a study said.