How global warming accelerated since '97 Kyoto pact: 'We are in more trouble than we thought' Since the 1997 international accord to fight ...
8 women marking Commonwealth anniversary by ski journey to South Pole Eight women set out Monday from their base camp on Antarctica to ...
This Scotch was on the rocks for 100 years: Antarctic team to drill for lost cache of liquor A beverage company has asked a team to drill through Antarctica's ice for a lost cache of some vintage Scotch whisky that has been ...
This Scotch was on the rocks for 100 years: Antarctic team to drill for lost cache of liquor A beverage company has asked a team to drill through Antarctica's ice for a lost cache of some vintage Scotch whiskey that has been ...
More than 100 people, mostly British tourists, have been trapped in the ice off Antarctica aboard a Russian ice-breaker cruise ship but are in no danger, a Russian shipping official said on Monday. "Today is the fourth day and that's not long," ...
Rare iceberg spotted off island south of Australia; uncommon sight in such waters A large iceberg was spotted off an island about halfway between Antarctica and Australia, a rare sight in waters so far north, Australian scientists said Thursday. Australian Antarctic Division ...
Global warming has been blamed for the alarming loss of ice shelves in Antarctica, but a new study says newly-exposed areas of sea are now soaking up some of the carbon gas that causes the problem. Scientists led by Lloyd Peck of ...
Flying NASA lab peers under a melting Antarctica to study collapsing ice sheets, implications Hoping to better understand how a melting Antarctica could swamp the planet, a NASA plane outfitted with lasers and ground-penetrating radar made its first flight over the icy ...
Taiwan and China will cooperate on research in Antarctica for the first time, an official said Thursday, in a sign that ties between the two former arch foes are warming even in polar science. Three Taiwanese biologists will join a Chinese team ...
OSLO (Reuters) - Dismayed by ice and storms, British explorer Captain James Cook had no regrets when he abandoned a voyage searching for a fabled southern continent in 1773. Finding only icebergs after he was the first to cross the Antarctic Circle, ...
Satellite laser readings show 'runaway' melting in parts of Greenland, Antarctica ice sheets New satellite information shows that ice sheets in Greenland and western Antarctica continue to shrink faster than scientists thought and in some places are already in runaway melt mode. ...
