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Time to Move to Mars Are fixing the climate and the ozone layer mutually exclusive?		24 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 3:59 PM on 24 Apr 2008 A geoengineering scheme to solve climate change could hurt the Antarctic ozone layer, while recovery of the ozone hole could increase Antarctic warming, new research suggests. A study published Thursday in Science decries suggestions to solve climate change by spewing sulfur into the atmosphere, saying that such a scheme would wipe out the Arctic ozone layer and delay the healing ...
Topics: Antarctica, climate, climate change mitigation, geoengineering, news, ozone, scientific research (all these topics)

Meanwhile ... Not looking good for ice shelf in the Antarctic	Sir Oolius	25 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Antarctica, climate, climate change impacts (all these topics)

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do Giant Antarctic ice chunk collapses		25 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 4:12 PM on 25 Mar 2008 A 160-square-mile chunk of ice -- that's seven times the size of Manhattan -- has collapsed off of the Wilkins ice shelf in Antarctica. The entire ice shelf, which is approximately the size of Connecticut, is "hanging by a thread," says climate scientist David Vaughan: "We'll know in the next few days or weeks what its fate will be." Scientists are not concerned that the ice breaka ...
Topics: Antarctica, climate, climate change impacts, news (all these topics)

Journey to the bottom of the Earth CBS airs final segment of Antarctica series tonight	Katy Balatero	13 Feb 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Antarctica, climate, climate change impacts, climate science, recycling, scientific research, TV, waste, wildlife (all these topics)

The Antarctic ice sheet hits the fan Antarctic shrinking much faster than expected	Joseph Romm	15 Jan 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Antarctica, climate, climate change impacts, climate science (all these topics)

Antarctic'ed Off Antarctica ice melt more widespread and faster than thought, says study		14 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 3:48 PM on 14 Jan 2008 Antarctica holds about 90 percent of the Earth's ice, so it's a bit problematic that the continent seems to be melting faster than expected. Not only is large-scale ice loss more widespread than thought, but the rate of meltiness has accelerated over the last decade, says a study in the journal Nature Geoscience. The West Antarctic ice sheet lost about 132 billion tons of ic ...
Topics: Antarctica, climate, climate change impacts, news, scientific research (all these topics)

Way Down South Britain wades into battle for sea-floor mineral rights in Southern Ocean		18 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 7:52 AM on 18 Oct 2007 The World Wildlife Fund has been trying to gather support to establish a network of marine protected areas in the Southern Ocean in an attempt to mitigate increasing ecological pressures in the area from climate change, invasive species, and commercial fishing. The plight of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean has often been overlooked compared to the rapidly melting Arctic on ...
Topics: Antarctica, England, news, oceans (all these topics)

Now There's Room for a Live Earth Concert Scientists find snowmelt, new species in Antarctica		17 May 2007	Daily Grist
Now There's Room for a Live Earth Concert Scientists find snowmelt, new species in Antarctica It's been a bad news-good news kind of week for Antarctica. Scientists from NASA and the University of Colorado revealed that a California-sized expanse of snow melted there during a warm spell in 2005, farther inland and at higher elevations than expected. The team was cautious about drawing climate-y conclusions, but sai ...
Topics: Antarctica, biodiversity, climate, news (all these topics)

Victory in the South Pacific Limits set on high seas bottom trawling	Andrew Sharpless	09 May 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Antarctica, Australia, fishing, oceans (all these topics)

Antarctic ice streams are no bubbling brook Bad news from down south	Joseph Romm	27 Apr 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Antarctica, climate, climate change impacts (all these topics)

Aren't You Glad You Use Dial? World sweats through warmest winter on record		19 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Aren't You Glad You Use Dial? World sweats through warmest winter on record Congratulations, global citizens, for weathering the warmest winter in the Northern Hemisphere since record-keeping began in 1880. From December to February, combined land and ocean temperatures were 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit above average, says a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration study published Friday in Scie ...
Topics: Antarctica, Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, news (all these topics)

Does the Polar Bear Club Know About This? Vast lakes discovered underneath Antarctic ice sheet		16 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
Does the Polar Bear Club Know About This? Vast lakes discovered underneath Antarctic ice sheet Thrilling hairy men in Speedos everywhere, satellite-wielding scientists have mapped new lakes deep below Antarctica's legendary ice. The finds, they say, could help predict how the area will respond to climate change. According to research published online in the journal Science, the lakes, some of which span hundreds of square miles, ...
Topics: Antarctica, climate, news (all these topics)

But Will They Wear Poodle Skirts? International Polar Year returns, focuses on climate-change research		03 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
But Will They Wear Poodle Skirts? International Polar Year returns, focuses on climate-change research Happy International Polar Year! If you didn't get us a gift yet, don't sweat it -- the fourth-ever IPY doesn't officially kick off until March, and researchers from some 60 countries will actually poke around in the icy Arctic and Antarctic for two years. The last IPY occurred in the late 1950s, meaning that "close ...
Topics: Antarctica, Arctic, climate, news (all these topics)

Best Feet Forward A review of Happy Feet, the wildly successful musical-penguin eco-flick	Yolanda Crous	28 Nov 2006	Arts and Minds
Dear Children of America, I used to be one of you. I used to beg and wheedle and whine and kick and scream to go to the cartoons. Any cartoons. Mumble channels Gregory Hines in Happy Feet. Photo: � Warner Bros. Pictures There was just something about those drawings-come-to-life (computer animation was just a twinkle in Steve Jobs' eye back then) that I couldn't resist, ...
Topics: Antarctica, green living (all these topics)

A New Leaf Billion-tree effort launches as new climate reports issued		09 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
A New Leaf Billion-tree effort launches as new climate reports issued Ooh, we love reports. A new one from a team of European scientists says the Arctic and Antarctic are linked by powerful currents, creating a "climate seesaw" that connects the fates of the poles and could help scientists predict the effects of polar warming on climate. A second, U.N.-commissioned re ...
Topics: Antarctica, Arctic, climate, Kenya, land stewardship, news, United Nations (all these topics)

Sheet Happens ... Faster Greenland melting faster than five years ago, study says		11 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Sheet Happens ... Faster Greenland melting faster than five years ago, study says We hate to give you bad news without some good, so here goes. The bad news from a study published this week in Science is that, by comparing satellite data from 2002-2005 to earlier data, researchers have determined that Greenland's ice sheet is melting about three times faster than it was five years ago. Put another way, about 57 cubic ...
Topics: Antarctica, climate, Greenland, news (all these topics)

We Hope the Russians Love Their Tube Worms Too Russians plan to drill into untouched Antarctic lake		13 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
We Hope the Russians Love Their Tube Worms Too Russians plan to drill into untouched Antarctic lake The world's seventh-largest freshwater lake is locked under a giant Antarctic ice sheet and has never been exposed to human contact -- but Russian scientists have drilled within 425 feet of it, and, despite pleas from scientists and environmentalists, intend to drill in all the way over the next two sum ...
Topics: Antarctica, lakes, mining and drilling, news, Russia (all these topics)

Place Invaders A warming Antarctica is threatened by invasive species		07 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
Place Invaders A warming Antarctica is threatened by invasive species As more tourists and researchers head to Antarctica -- gotta see that ice before it's gone! -- scientists are worrying about a different sort of invasion: flora and fauna. "The more individuals of an alien species or nonnative species get there, the more likely something will be able to establish and live there," says invasive-species researcher Maj ...
Topics: Antarctica, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Cold Rush Greens worry as countries scurry to set up camp in Antarctica		05 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Cold Rush Greens worry as countries scurry to set up camp in Antarctica Several dozen countries have set up camps and research stations in Antarctica, giving greens short-term fears that development will damage fragile ecosystems and long-term fears that the continent will soon be pillaged for oil, gas, and minerals. A 1959 Antarctic Treaty declares Earth's driest, windiest, coldest contine ...
Topics: Antarctica, Australia, mining and drilling, news, United States (all these topics)

Waddle They Do Now? Global warming also affects -- noooooooo! -- penguins		05 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Waddle They Do Now? Global warming also affects -- noooooooo! -- penguins Need a new weapon in your arsenal against global-warming skeptics? Try baby penguin fuzzy-wuzziness. According to a new study, penguins and other Antarctic seabirds are nesting and laying eggs later than they did half a century ago, and scientists blame ... the usual culprit. In eastern Antarctica, overall sea ice has declined, while local coolin ...
Topics: Antarctica, climate, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Who Let the Catastrophe Out of the Bag? Earth warming, ice melting, seas rising, umpteenth study says		24 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
Who Let the Catastrophe Out of the Bag? Earth warming, ice melting, seas rising, umpteenth study says Cutting greenhouse-gas emissions could -- maaaaybe -- stave off a catastrophic rise in sea levels that in coming centuries could return the earth to conditions last seen 129,000 years ago. We would never have guessed, but fortunately scientists keep pointing it out -- as in this week's climate-disruption-centric issue ...
Topics: Antarctica, climate, Greenland, news (all these topics)

Melts in Your South, Not in Your Plans Antarctica ice sheets melting faster than expected		03 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
Melts in Your South, Not in Your Plans Antarctica ice sheets melting faster than expected Another day, another round of studies showing the world's ice sheets melting faster than expected, another outbreak of indifference from the public, another resigned sigh from enviros, another bout of empty rhetoric from legislators. K, see you tomorrow! Oh, what, you want details? All right: The lucky ice sheets featured in thes ...
Topics: Antarctica, climate, Greenland, news (all these topics)

Holey Moly Antarctic ozone hole may persist 20 years longer than expected		07 Dec 2005	Daily Grist
Holey Moly Antarctic ozone hole may persist 20 years longer than expected Remember that hole in the ozone over Antarctica? The one we fixed? Big environmental success story? Turns out it may take roughly two decades longer than expected for it to fully heal -- until around 2065, instead of 2040 to 2050 -- because sizable amounts of chlorofluorocarbons are still being released into the atmosphere by industrialized nations. Researche ...
Topics: Antarctica, news, ozone (all these topics)

Shock and Thaw New Yorker launches three-part exploration of climate change		25 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Shock and Thaw New Yorker launches three-part exploration of climate change Writer Elizabeth Kolbert must have single-handedly accelerated global warming with the jet fuel she burned visiting the Arctic, Iceland, Greenland, Alaska, and the Antarctic to research a big three-part series on climate change for The New Yorker. What did she find? Well, it's all melting. The Alaskan village of Shi ...
Topics: Alaska, Antarctica, Arctic, climate, Greenland, Iceland, news (all these topics)

Ice Hassles Antarctic glaciers rapidly melting		22 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Ice Hassles Antarctic glaciers rapidly melting Wanna travel to Antarctica, but worried about all that ice? Worry no more. On the Antarctic Peninsula, a 1,200-mile-long mountain chain 600 miles south of Argentina, about 212 of the 244 glaciers are retreating, fast. Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey and the British Antarctic Survey studied photos and satellite data from the 1940s to 2001, concluding ...
Topics: Antarctica, climate, news, US Geological Survey (all these topics)

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