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'Green News Report' - May 15, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.15.2012

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'Green News Report' - May 10, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.10.2012

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Ship Leaking Oil In Antarctica, Trapped In Ice

AP | FEDERICO QUILODRAN | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Energy, Antarctica Oil Spill, Video, Antarctica, Oil Spills, Endless Sea, Antarctica Oil Spill Endless Sea, Antarctica Oil Spill 2012, Antarctica Environment, Antarctica Oil Spills, Green News

SANTIAGO, Chile -- A wrecked Brazilian ship is trapped in ice and spilling fuel in Antarctica, with no hopes of containing the damage until the long ...

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'Green News Report' - April 26, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 04.26.2012

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New Study Explains Cause Of Antarctic Ice Melt

AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Video, Global Sea Levels, Antarctica, Antarctica Ice, Antarctica Climate Change, Polar Ice Melting, Polar Ice, Climate-Change, Antarctica Ice Melting, Sea Level Rise, Ap, Green News

WASHINGTON (AP) — Antarctica's massive ice shelves are shrinking because they are being eaten away from below by warm water, a new study finds. That...

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Penguin Population Shows Surprising Shift In New Satellite-Based Tally

Reuters | Pauline Askin | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Census, Penguin Population, Video, Antarctica, Ecology, Reuters, Birds, Satellite Mapping, Endangered Species, Animal-Populations, Animals, Penguins, Science News

By Pauline Askin SYDNEY (Reuters) - Counting emperor penguins in their icy Antarctic habitat was not easy until researchers used new te...

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What Caused Ancient Sea Levels To Rise So Quickly?

Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Video, Antarctica, Global Sea Level, Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapse, Climate Change Fossil Record, Paleoclimate, Climate-Change, Sea Level, Ancient Sea Level Rise, Ancient Climate Change, Global Warming, Sea Level Rise, Green News

By Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer: Dramatic warming at the end of the last ice age produced an intense rise in sea level and a massive ic...

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Melting Before My Eyes

Lea Lane | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Travel, Climate Change, Glaciers, World, Greenland, Antarctica, Global Warming, Impact, Greenland Ice Melting, Greenland Glaciers, Greenland Ice, Green News
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Skiing To The South Pole

James M. Clash | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Roald Amundsen, Cold, Extreme, Adventure, Antarctica, Amundsen-Scott Station, James Clash, Noaa, Robert Scott, Jim, Polar, South Pole, Skiing, North Pole, Cal-Tech, Ice, Travel News
James M. Clash

There are crazies that climb into a steaming sauna, then head outside to run around the ceremonial pole marker naked as soon as the temperature dips beneath 100 below.

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WATCH: Explorer's Amazing Reaction After Finding 'Buried Treasure'

Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Antarctica, Video, Cheez Doodle Antarctica, South Pole Cheez Doodles, Aleksander Gamme, Gamme, South Pole Cheez Doodle, Cheez Doodles, Norwegian Explorer Cheeze Doodle, World News

This is what happens after 86 days alone in the South Pole. Aleksander Gamme, a Norwegian Explorer, was on a solo expedition in Antarctica when he ...

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PHOTOS: Polar Explorer's Famous Last Words Spoken 100 Years Ago Today

Posted 03.29.2012

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By: Andrea Mustain, OurAmazingPlanet Staff Writer Published: 03/29/2012 02:14 PM EDT on OurAmazingPlanet On this day (March 29) 100 years ago, ...

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Is Antarctica Cracking Apart?

Posted 03.29.2012

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By Andrea Thompson, OurAmazingPlanet Managing Editor The floating ice shelves of West Antarctica are fracturing increasingly and losing their grip ...

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The Arctic: A Journey Of Epic Proportions

G Adventures | Posted 05.24.2012

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G Adventures

Each day of the journey brought unpredictable thrills and excitement. And it wasn't just the landscapes that floored me.

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7 Things We Learned From Alec Baldwin & 'Frozen Planet'

The Huffington Post | Crystal Bell | Posted 03.17.2012

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Discovery unveils its new seven-part series "Frozen Planet," from the makers of "Planet Earth" on Sunday, March 18. Narrated by "30 Rock" star Alec Ba...

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'Green News Report' - March 8, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.08.2012

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'Alien' Invasion Puts Antarctica At Risk

Reuters | Pauline Askin | Posted 05.05.2012

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By Pauline Askin SYDNEY (REUTERS) - In the pristine frozen continent of Antarctica scientists fear an alien invasion -- not from outer ...

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TEDxAntarctica: Solar Powered TEDx Event Takes Place in the Antarctic March 6

Aiko Stevenson | Posted 05.04.2012

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Aiko Stevenson

If alternative energy can work in the coldest, harshest, most unforgiving place on earth, it can be used anywhere.

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WATCH: Discovering Seal Sounds In The Antarctic

Lindblad Expeditions | Posted 05.02.2012

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Lindblad Expeditions

When a big, fast-moving shadow whipped by me about 50 feet down the rocky slope of Booth Island, it brought me up short right away.

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Robert Swan OBE: "The Greatest Threat to Our Planet Is the Belief That Someone Else Will Save It"

Aiko Stevenson | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Conservation, Adventure, Antarctica, Arctic Expedition, 2012 Arctic Expedition, Adventure Travel, Explorers, Arctic, Robert Swan, Green Movement, Madrid Protocol, Sustainability, 2041, South Pole, North Pole, Green News
Aiko Stevenson

In 1986, Robert Swan made the longest unassisted walk ever to the South Pole. Three years later he went onto the North Pole and by the age of 33, he became first person in history to walk to both North and South Pole.

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PHOTOS: Weathering The Harsh Antarctic Wind

Ed Stump | Posted 04.28.2012

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We could see a churning plume of wind and snow plummeting from the escarpment lip high above.

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WATCH: Fly Through A Cracking Glacial Canyon

Posted 02.23.2012

Read More: Glacial Calving, Video, Antarctica, Glaciers, Icebergs, Melting Glaciers, Antarctic Ice, Climate-Change, Pine Island Glacier Antarctica, Pine Island Glacier Crack, Green News

By OurAmazingPlanet Staff: A new video takes viewers on a stunning ride through a giant and ever-growing canyon of Antarctic ice that marks the bir...

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WATCH: Aboard National Geographic Explorer

Lindblad Expeditions | Posted 04.23.2012

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Lindblad Expeditions

That weird mushroom-creature from the Arctic? We still don't know what it is, and we're still working to find out.

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Race Is On To Find Life Under Antarctic Ice Sheet

Reuters | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Antarctica, Video, Antarctica Subglacial Lakes, Lake Vostok, Reuters, Antarctic Ice Shelf, Nature, Antarctica Life, Lake Vostok Life, Lake Vostok Antarctica, Green News

* Russian expedition says broke through to lake on Feb. 5 * Scientists suspect lake hides unknown life forms * Say harsh...

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Putin Hails Russia's Antarctic Breakthrough

AP | By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV | Posted 02.10.2012

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MOSCOW -- Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday praised the Russian scientists who have reached a gigantic freshwater lake in Antarctica hidden unde...

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Life In Antarctic Lake? It's Everywhere Else

AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Unexpected Lifeforms, Lake Vostok Microbes, Antarctica, Video, Microbial Life, Lake Vostok, Science, Underwater Lifeforms, Bacteria, Lake Vostok Antarctica, Ap, Green News

WASHINGTON (AP) — If scientists find microbes in a frigid lake two miles beneath the thick ice of Antarctica, it will illustrate once again that som...

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