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BBC News
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Nasa says its Phoenix spacecraft is in good health after making the first successful landing in the north polar region of Mars.
Images sent back show a flat valley floor with polygonal features that give the ground a "paved" appearance.
These are be..
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BBC News
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An Edinburgh scientist's study of a 15 million-year-old lake buried under the ice of Antarctica could yield clues on climate change and the origins of life.
Edinburgh University researcher Neil Ross is part of a four-man team camped on an Antarctic ice..
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BBC News
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Scientists in the US have presented one of the most dramatic forecasts yet for the disappearance of Arctic sea ice.
Their latest modelling studies indicate northern polar waters could be ice-free in summers within just 5-6 years.
Professor Wieslaw M..
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BBC News
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A new technique to track changes in the extent of Arctic sea ice over the past 1,000 years is being developed by a UK team from the University of Plymouth.
The scientists are studying sediments from the sea bed in the fabled Northwest Passage.
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BBC News
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Armies of insects once crawled through lush forests in a region of Greenland now covered by more than 2000m of ice.
DNA extracted from ice cores show that moths and butterflies were living in forests of spruce and pine in the area between 450,000 and 8..
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Washington Post
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Some of the largest glaciers in Antarctica and Greenland are moving in unusual ways and are losing increased amounts of ice to the sea, researchers said yesterday.
Although the changes in Greenland appear to be related to global warming, it remains unc..
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Science Daily
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Two of Greenland's largest glaciers shrank dramatically and dumped twice as much ice into the sea during a period of less than a year between 2004 and 2005. And then, less than two years later, they returned to near their previous rates of discharge. T..
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CNET
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Greenland, that icy land that even the Vikings had trouble colonizing, plays a pretty crucial role when it comes to our planet's climate. Approximately 125,000 years ago, Earth was 3 to 5 degrees Celsius warmer on average than it is today, and sea leve..
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Physorg
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The recent retreat of Arctic sea ice is likely to accelerate so rapidly that the Arctic Ocean could become nearly devoid of ice during summertime as early as 2040, according to new research published in the December 12 issue of Geophysical Research Letter..
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www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca
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In the frigid, murky waters of the St. Lawrence River in Québec, UBC marine biologist and veterinarian Chris Harvey-Clark is painting a clearer picture of a mysterious predator that could be the longest-lived vertebrate on the planet...
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CNN
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Signs of warming continue in the Arctic with a decline in sea ice, an increase in shrubs growing on the tundra and rising worries about the Greenland ice sheet...
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BBC News
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Nasa's new robotic craft on Mars may be resting on a large patch of ice.
The latest images sent to Earth reveal tantalising glimpses of what looks like frozen water.
Scientists think the Phoenix Mars lander's descent engine may have blown away a lay..
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MSNBC
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Sharp new images received Saturday from the Phoenix lander largely convinced scientists that the spacecraft's thrusters had uncovered a large patch of ice just below the Martian surface, team members said.
That bodes well for the mission's main goal of..
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BBC News
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Dramatic evidence of the break-up of the Arctic ice-cap has emerged from research during an expedition by the Canadian military.
Scientists travelling with the troops found major new fractures during an assessment of the state of giant ice shelves in C..
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MSNBC
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Here is what those details could reveal about ice on Mars: One theory is that the ice is in equilibrium with the scant amount of water vapor in Mars' atmosphere and froze out of the air and into the pore spaces between the soil grains. Because Mars' gravi..
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BBC News
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The United States has listed the polar bear as a threatened species, because its Arctic sea ice habitat is melting due to climate change.
US government scientists predict that two-thirds of the polar bear population of 25,000 could disappear by 2050...
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BBC News
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Large volumes of water ice have probably been detected below Mars' surface, far from the planet's polar ice caps, scientists have said.
The Sharad radar experiment, on Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft made the discovery in Mars' mid-..
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BBC News
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A boat that was deliberately trapped in the Arctic ice in an effort to monitor the regions changing climate has broken free after more than 500 days.
Tara sailed into the pack-ice in September 2006 and has been allowed to drift with the ocean currents..
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BBC News
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Scientists have found what they say is the first evidence of a volcanic eruption under the Antarctic ice sheet.
They believe the volcano erupted about 2,000 years ago, and would have burst through its ice covering, producing a burst of steam and rocky..
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BBC News
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A British trawler stuck in Antarctic ice for more than a week has been repaired and is set to resume fishing once its engine warms up, crew say.
A US air force plane was called in to drop a piston to the Argos Georgia, with an icebreaker due to deliver..
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