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Beijing at US' doorsteps: Tensions flare as China’s Xue Long 2 moves into US waters — here’s what happened nextChinese icebreaker Xue Long 2 entered a sensitive U.S. Arctic zone, triggering a fast response from the U.S. Coast Guard near Alaska. The v...
Akshay Nanavati's historic 110-day solo ski expedition across AntarcticaAkshay Nanavati, a 40-year-old Indian American, has embarked on a 110-day skiing expedition across Antarctica, aiming to become the first p...
Subglacial meltwater flowing beneath Antarctic glaciers could accelerate retreat, study findsResearchers have found that subglacial discharge, or meltwater flowing out to sea from beneath Antarctic glaciers, could be causing glacier...
Unusual warming played role in 2002 Antarctic ice shelf retreat: StudyThe study has revealed that widespread flow acceleration and frequent small-iceberg calving could serve as warning signs for future such ic...
Antarctica's 'doomsday' glacier: How its collapse could trigger global floods and swallow islandsA sea level rise of several metres would inundate many of the world's major cities - including Shanghai, New York, Miami, Tokyo and Mumbai
Polar bears starving due to climate change: StudyThe study revealed that polar bears have higher metabolic rates than previously thought, and the climate change is affecting their environm...
Massive Antarctica iceberg at brink of breaking offLarsen C Ice Shelf is about 350 metres thick and floats on the seas at the edge of West Antarctica, holding back the flow of glaciers that ...
- Antarctic ice shelf rift gets second branch
London, May 3 (IANS) A big crack in an Antarctica ice shelf now has a second branch, researchers revealed after studying the latest satelli...
- What has stopped Antarctica from warming
The secret to why Antarctica is not warming as much as the other continents, and why Australia faces more droughts lies in strengthening of...
- Major study doubles sea level rise projections
Days before the Copenhagen climate conference kicks off, a major study by a group of 100 international scientists has said that sea levels ...