Polar Ice

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...

Read Whole Story

Is Antarctica Cracking Apart?

Posted 03.29.2012

Read More: Ice Cracks Antarctica, Antarctica Melting, Video, Antarctica, Antarctica Glaciers, Antarctica Ice Cracks, Cracking Ice Antarctica, Polar Ice Loss, Polar Ice, Climate-Change, Antarctica Ice Melting, Melting Ice Antarctica, Antarctica Ice Cracking, Green News

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

Read Whole Story

Safety Tape, Polar Ice, Living Chandeliers And More

The Huffington Post | Kia Makarechi | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Polar Ice, Huffington Post Arts Design Thursdays, Safety Tape, Video, Judith Hoffman, Alisa Andrasek, Slidepollajax, Soundmachine, Dustism, Living Chandelier, Huffpost Arts Design Thursdays, Design Thursdays, Arts News

Safety Tape, Polar Ice, A Living Chandelier And More: HuffPost Arts Design Thursdays

Read Whole Story

Warming Ocean Could Melt Ice Faster Than Thought

AP | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | Posted 09.02.2011

Read More: Polar Ice, Greenland, Glacier Melting, Ice Melting, Climate Change, Antarctica, Global Warming, Green News

WASHINGTON — Warming air from climate change isn't the only thing that will speed ice melting near the poles – so will the warming water b...

Read Whole Story

The Real Victims Of Climate Change Have No Voice In Copenhagen (PHOTOS)

Alun Anderson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Melting Ice, Walrus, Copenhagen 2009, Books, Arctic Ocean, Carbon Dioxide, New Books, Arctic, Greenhouse Gasses, Ice Caps, Narwhals, Carbonhagen, Polar Ice, Polar Bears, Climate Change, Slideshow, Alaska, Copenhagen, Global Warming, Books News
Alun Anderson

Look north and you will see the biggest and fastest change to our planet ever caused by humans. It won't go away as a result of talk or promises. The frozen Arctic seas are melting away now.

Read Post

North Pole Summers Will Be Ice-Free In A Decade

AP | MARESA PATIENCE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arctic Sea, Open Sea, North Pole Summer, Ice Melting, Catlin Arctic Survey Team, Climate System, North Pole, Polar Ice, Team of Explorers, Climate Change, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Polar Ocean Physics Group, Pen Hadow, Global Warming, Arctic Sea Ice Cover, Green News

AP LONDON -- The North Pole will turn into an open sea during summer within a decade, according to data released Wednesday by a team of explorers who ...

Read Whole Story