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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)

Faster, Pussycat! Krill! Krill! Food web unraveling in Antarctic, thanks to global warming		04 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Faster, Pussycat! Krill! Krill! Food web unraveling in Antarctic, thanks to global warming Krill, the shrimp-like crustaceans at the center of the Antarctic food chain, are rapidly disappearing, and scientists suspect global warming may be the culprit. In some key ocean regions, krill have declined by more than 80 percent in the last 25 years, according to a study in today's issue of the journal Science. Numerous Antarctic ...
Topics: Antarctica, climate, wildlife (all these topics)

Like a Tundra of Bricks Arctic tundra may produce rather than absorb CO2, accelerating warming		24 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Like a Tundra of Bricks Arctic tundra may produce rather than absorb CO2, accelerating warming It's not often that drama emerges from the Arctic tundra, but there seems to be genuine excitement around revelations from a 20-year study just completed and published in the journal Nature. Researchers have long assumed that Arctic tundra would be a carbon dioxide "sink," absorbing CO2 and slowing -- at least slightly -- t ...
Topics: Antarctica, Canada, climate (all these topics)

Going South		03 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Going South The search for Antarctic organisms that can be used for pharmaceutical and other commercial purposes -- called "extremophiles" for their ability to thrive in harshly cold, dry, and salty conditions -- is pushing international patent law to the breaking point and threatening the fragile Antarctic environment, concludes a United Nations study released on Sunday. The Antarctic T ...
Topics: Antarctica, pollution and waste, United Nations, wildlife (all these topics)

A Chilly Reception Environmentalists Concerned About Increase in Antarctic Tourism		11 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
A Chilly Reception Environmentalists Concerned About Increase in Antarctic Tourism Not that long ago, the remote, inhospitable Antarctic would have seemed like an unlikely tourist destination. Now, though, with global tourism on the rise and far-flung places all the rage, tourism to the South Pole is growing rapidly -- and possibly at the expense of the region's environment. In the past decade, the number of visito ...
Topics: Antarctica, business, outdoor recreation (all these topics)

We've Got Mail		29 Jan 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: Antarctica, education, green living, toxics (all these topics)

Journey to the Bottom of the Earth		10 Jan 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: Antarctica, business, environmental non-government organizations, ozone, Washington (all these topics)

Half and Half		06 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Half and Half In the interest of living up to our reputation for providing the occasional sliver of cheery environmental news, Grist is pleased to report that notwithstanding rampant ecological degradation, nearly half of the land on Earth remains undeveloped and unpopulated, according to an international study released earlier this week. The study -- the most comprehensive such ...
Topics: Antarctica, Arctic, Conservation International, land degradation, wildlife (all these topics)

Out From the Cold		03 May 2002	Daily Grist
Out From the Cold While average global temperatures are on the way up, Antarctica has cooled overall in the last few decades, a trend that has puzzled scientists. To make matters more baffling, a small peninsula of the continent has simultaneously been warming 10 times faster than the rest of the world. Now scientists are speculating that the region's strange temperature patterns may be tied to the ozone hole, which opens up abo ...
Topics: Antarctica, climate, ozone (all these topics)

Andes Minced		22 Apr 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: Amazon, Antarctica, Arctic, climate, Ecuador, renewable energy (all these topics)

Scarey Larsen		20 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Scarey Larsen An enormous section of Antarctica's Larsen Ice Shelf collapsed and splintered into thousands of icebergs this week after one of the region's warmest recorded summers. The section, designated Larsen B, was 650 feet thick and about the size of Rhode Island. Although scientists stopped short of attributing the collapse to global warming, they did say the area disintegrated with astounding rapidity and noted that it had surviv ...
Topics: Antarctica, climate (all these topics)

To Boldly Clean Where No One Has Cleaned Before		12 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
To Boldly Clean Where No One Has Cleaned Before Urging other countries to follow its lead, Australia began a massive cleanup of its Antarctic research base today. As many as 330,000 tons of waste, the detritus of decades of research and exploration, is strewn over the otherwise pristine environment of Antarctica. The waste includes chemicals, batteries, oils, and building materials. Australia contracted a French ...
Topics: Antarctica, Australia, pollution and waste (all these topics)

A Swiftly Tilting Planet		01 Apr 2000	Daily Grist

Topics: Antarctica, business, climate (all these topics)

Fire and Ice Global warming in action in the Antarctic	Gary Braasch	06 Aug 1999	Main Dish
The scene is breathtaking, even mystical. Four searchlight beams arrow down from above me to a vanishing point over dark water. Sea fog sweeps in along the beams and occasionally an iceberg is illuminated. From the left, a small, pale full moon is just showing over the clouds. I am on the bridge of the National Science Foundation research icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer, approaching the Antarctic Circle along the A ...
Topics: Antarctica, climate change impacts, scientific research (all these topics)

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