Researchers find ocean region where arctic terns like to take a break en route south Arctic terns heading south for the winter like ...
OSLO (Reuters) - Arctic terns can fly more than 80,000 km (49,700 miles) a year, beating past estimates of the seabirds' record migrations ...
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Inuit communities need funds to adapt to climate change in the Arctic, including measures to build communal deep freezers to store game because warming is reducing their hunting season, an Inuit leader said on Friday. The Inuit, the indigenous ...
FILE - In this Aug. 17, 2005 file photo glaciers and icebergs of the Greenland ice cap are seen over Greenland. This decade is on track to become the warmest since records began in 1850, and 2009 could rank among the top-five ...
Whatever the outcome of the UN climate summit in Copenhagen, Nature may have some extremely nasty surprises up its sleeve, say scientists. They say Earth's biosphere has numerous "tipping points" -- triggers that cause global warming and its impacts to lurch up ...
In Greenland, global warming fuels dreams of uncovering untapped riches as ice retreats Gert Ignatiussen returns to this fjord-front Inuit town with the spoils of his hunting trip. Six seals, all killed with a single shot to the head. With nimble handwork, ...
Gert Ignatiussen throws a chunk of seal meat to one of his sled dogs in Tasiilaq, an Inuit town on the southeast coast of Greenland, in this photograph taken on Aug. 25, 2009. Ignatiussen was the winner of Greenland's annual amateur mineral ...
OSLO (Reuters) - Global warming is happening faster than expected and at worst could raise sea levels by up to 2 meters (6-1/2 ft) by 2100, a group of scientists said on Tuesday in a warning to next month's U.N. climate summit ...
How global warming accelerated since '97 Kyoto pact: 'We are in more trouble than we thought' Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated — beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then. ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fast-melting ice from Greenland and Antarctica will lead to a much sharper rise in sea levels than previously estimated, touching off flooding that will radically alter U.S. East Coast cities from Miami to Baltimore, according to a new study. ...
Greenland's ice sheet has melted faster than previously thought, according to the results of a two-year study published by the US journal Science. Scientists reported that warmer than usual summers accelerated ice loss to 273 cubic kilometers (65 cubic miles) of a ...
OSLO (Reuters) - Greenland's ice losses are accelerating and nudging up sea levels, according to a study showing that icebergs breaking away and meltwater runoff are equally to blame for the shrinking ice sheet. The report, using computer models to confirm satellite ...
