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NEWS ABOUT: polar ice caps

polar ice caps stories: 12 news summaries

 NASA Mission 
 Monitors Polar Ice 

Antarctica jet filling in for dying satellite

Oct 30, 09 1:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - NASA has begun a mission much closer to home than usual. The agency is flying a DC-8 over Antarctica to track melting glaciers and any subsequent rise in sea levels. Operation Ice Bridge is designed to buttress the work of a fading satellite, ICESat, which is just about spent after... More »

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climate change • NASA • global warming • sea level • Antarctica • satellite • glacier • polar ice caps

 Maldives Leaders Meet 
 Underwater on Climate 

Stop climate change or we're sunk, they say

Oct 17, 09 11:25 AM CDT
(AP) - Members of the Maldives' Cabinet donned scuba gear and used hand signals today at an underwater meeting staged to highlight the threat of global warming to the lowest-lying nation on earth. President Mohammed Nasheed and 13 other government officials submerged and took their seats at a table on the sea... More »

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climate change • global warming • sea level • polar ice caps • Maldives

Polar Bears May Have Yet Another Worry: Sharks

Bone is found in the stomach of a Greenland shark

Aug 12, 08 6:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - As if polar bears in the North Pole didn't have enough to worry about these days: Scientists have found the bone of a young bear in the stomach of a Greenland shark, Reuters reports. The unprecedented discovery prompts a "million dollar question," says one researcher: Do the bears... More »

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global warming • shark • polar bear • polar ice caps • deadly animals • predators • shark attack

OPINION

 Ice Reveals Climate History

Research offers window into changes

Aug 3, 08 12:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - Over the next three summers in Greenland, a group of international scientists will unearth samples of the country’s ice core down to its very bedrock, in the hopes of painting a complete picture of Earth's changing climate. Each layer provides a dated mixture of water and air bubbles that... More »

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climate change • global warming • Greenland • research • polar ice caps • Thomas Friedman • Arctic Circle • scientific research

 Huge Chunk
 Snaps Off Largest
 Arctic Ice Shelf

Arctic's biggest ice shelf is falling apart and not regenerating

Jul 30, 08 8:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - An 8-square-mile chunk of ice has broken off an ancient ice shelf in Canada's Arctic, the Globe & Mail reports. The Ward Hunt Shelf, the biggest in the Arctic, has shrunk over the last century from 3,500 square miles to less than 400 today. Huge cracks have appeared in... More »

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global warming • Canada • Arctic • polar ice caps • Canadian Arctic • Arctic Sea • ice shelf

 Polar Meltdown
 Threatened
 This Summer 

North Pole may be ice free for the first time in human history

Jun 27, 08 6:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - The North Pole may become free of ice this summer for the first time in human history. Thick Arctic sea ice that normally covers the polar region has been replaced by ice that formed only in the last year and is susceptible to seasonal melting, reports the Independent. It's... More »

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North Pole • University of Washington • polar ice caps • National Snow and Ice Data Center • Arctic sea ice • Arctic Ocean • Goddard Space Flight Center

 Gore's New Hard
 Truth: Nothing
 Is Changing 

Climate change too low on priority list: Gore

Apr 21, 08 3:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Despite the impact of his movie, An Inconvenient Truth, the success of Live Earth concerts and news stories about melting ice caps, little has changed and action is needed more urgently than ever to stem global warming, Al Gore tells the Sun. The Nobel Prize-winning former vice president believes it's... More »

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climate change • recycling • Al Gore • global warming • Kyoto Protocol • An Inconvenient Truth • polar ice caps • Live Earth • Nobel Peace Prize • low-energy light bulbs • Oscars

 Old Arctic Ice Melting Away 

Formations older than 1 year see heavy declines

Mar 18, 08 7:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Arctic's oldest, thickest ice is melting and may undermine the entire Arctic ice cap, NASA satellite photos show. Some 965,300 square miles of perennial ice, more than a year old, has melted over the past year—a 50% decrease. Losses of older, hardier frost are even greater: Three... More »

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climate change • global warming • Arctic • polar ice caps • Arctic Sea • Arctic Circle

Island Paradise Battles Global Warming

Republic of Maldives sounds alarm about rising sea levels

Jan 28, 08 4:18 PM CST
(Newser) - The Republic of Maldives has a lot to fear from rising sea levels, but the chain of tiny islands in the Indian Ocean is doing something to protect itself. The nation has built a concrete wall around the capital, Male, and constructed an entirely new island 7 feet higher than... More »

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climate change • tsunami • global warming • sea level • polar ice caps • Maldives • Maumoon Abdul Gayoom • Hulhumale

Sailors Find Iceless NW Passage

As ice thaws, yachts glide through Northwest Passage

Sep 13, 07 8:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - It's smooth sailing in the Arctic nowadays. Even in recent years, the ice was apt to claim adventurers who dared navigate the Northwest Passage. This year the passage has no ice. And with global warming claiming some 38,000 square miles of ice a year, the Journal reports, the Arctic... More »

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climate change • Arctic • boat • Arctic race • polar ice caps • Northwest Passage • ice melt

Arctic Thaw Set at 40% by 2050

Researchers put 40% of Arctic underwater by 2050

Sep 7, 07 6:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - At least 40% of the polar icecap will be gone by 2050, Seattle scientists predicted today, putting the meltdown way ahead of earlier predictions that so much ice would take a century to vanish. Greenhouse gases, which linger in the atmosphere for up to 50 years, are primarily responsible for... More »

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climate change • greenhouse gases • global warming • Arctic • polar bear • polar ice caps

5 Last-Ditch Plans to Save Earth

Crank up your ingenuity and combat climate change the MacGyver way

Aug 22, 07 2:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - If reducing emissions was Plan A to save the earth from global warming, these plans from Popular Science would be more like Plan ... Z:
  1. Make more Arctic ice—out of saltwater.
  2. Cool the oceans, which feed storms with warm water, by sucking up cold water from the ocean
... More »

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climate change • environment • conservation • global warming • plastic • list • Earth • glacier • polar ice caps • wetlands

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