Antarctica

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Paul Nicklen's Polar Obsession Photos

Posted 11.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Photography, Leopard Seal, Slidepoll, Antarctica, National Geographic, Penguin, Polar Bear, Animals, Canada, Arctic, Narwhals, Norway, Paul Nicklen, Polar Obsession, Polar Ice Caps, Polar Bears, Bull Walrus, Environment, Green News

Renowned National Geographic extreme photojournalist Paul Nicklen has released a new book titled Polar Obsession, which chronicles his expedition unde...

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Explorer Ernest Shackleton's Whiskey Uncovered In Antarctica, 100 Years Later

GlobalPost | Posted 10.26.2009 | World

Read More: Antarctica, Whiskey, Sir Ernest Shackleton, Antartica Ice, South-Pole, South Pole, World News

CAPE ROYDS, Antarctica : This spit of black volcanic rock that juts out along the coast of Antarctica is an inhospitable place. Temperatures drop belo...

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NASA data: Greenland, Antarctic ice melt worsening

AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 09.23.2009 | Home

Read More: Greenland, Ice Melt, Nasa, Ice Melting, Climate Change, Global Warming, Antarctica, Home News

New satellite information shows that ice sheets in Greenland and western Antarctica continue to shrink faster than scientists thought and in some places are already in runaway melt mode.

British scientists for the first time calculated changes in the height of the vulnerable but massive ice sheets and found them especially worse at their edges. That's where warmer water eats away from below. In some parts of Antarctica, ice sheets have been losing 30 feet a year in thickness since 2003, according to a paper published online Thursday in the journal Nature.

Some of those areas are about a mile thick, so they've still got plenty of ice to burn through. But the drop in thickness is speeding up. In parts of Antarctica, the yearly rate of thinning from 2003 to 2007 is 50 percent higher than it was from 1995 to 2003.

These new measurements, based on 50 million laser readings from a NASA satellite, confirm what some of the more pessimistic scientists thought: The melting along the crucial edges of the two major ice sheets is accelerating and is in a self-feeding loop. The more the ice melts, the more water surrounds and eats away at the remaining ice.

"To some extent it's a runaway effect. The question is how far will it run?" said the study's lead author, Hamish Pritchard of the British Antarctic Survey. "It's more widespread than we previously thought."

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National Health Care: Making a Trip to Antarctica Possible

Tamar Abrams | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Elderly, Teabaggers, Senior Citizens, Military, Antarctica, Joe Wilson, Health Care Reform, Tricare, Health Care, Champus, Wiesbaden, Politics News

I don't know that TRICARE is the best possible care, but I can point to my parents, who still ride their tandem bike every day and swim every day and are healthy enough to plan a January trip to Antarctica.

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The Cold War Over the Hottest of Blood

Paul Watson | Posted 09.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, Sea Shepherd, Yushin Maru, International Whaling Commission, Antarctica, Steve Irwin, Ernest Shackleton, Animal Planet, Whale Wars, Whaling, Japanese-Whaling, Sir Robert Scott, Paul Watson, Green News

The Sea Shepherd crew is doing what governments should be doing, but refuse to do themselves, because of the threats of trade retaliation from Japan.

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What Bernie Madoff Couldn't Steal From Me

Matt Weinstein | Posted 07.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Madoff Victims, Antarctica, Bernard Madoff, Madoff Scandal, Wealth, Economic Crisis, Living News

Some genuine "wealth" in our lives is always created when we reach out to each other, when we make connections with each other, when we form a community together in times of crisis.

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More Huge Ice Chunks Break Away From Antarctica

AP | DAVID RISING | Posted 05.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Antarcic Ice, Antarctica, Antarctic Icemelt, Climate Change, Global Warming, Green News

BERLIN — Massive ice chunks are crumbling away from a shelf in the western Antarctic Peninsula, researchers said Wednesday, warning that 1,300 s...

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Dramatic Personal Photos of Antarctica, Greenland -- for Earth Day

Lea Lane | Posted 05.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Greenland, Travel, Antarctica, Cruising, Earth Day, Green News

These photos show the beauty and fragility of our polar world, and I hope that they help remind us to treat our vulnerable planet with respect and love.

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How Does An Ecosystem Function Below A Glacier?

AP | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | Posted 05.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Bacteria Under Glaciers, Glaciers, Antarctica, Green News

WASHINGTON — Hidden in the bone-chilling dark beneath an Antarctic glacier, a colony of strange bacteria is thriving. Scientists investigating t...

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CON GAMES: Double-Whammy Puts Right on Thin Ice

Michael Conniff | Posted 05.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Green News, Environment, Hillary Clinton, Antarctica, Climate Change, Antarctic Ice Shelf, Arctic, Green News

Conservatives tend to be all but immune to inconvenient data of climate change, citing marginal studies and anecdotal evidence scientifically proven by looking out your bedroom window.

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Behind Antarctic Renewable Energy, More Energy Politics

nytimes.com | Jeffrey Marlow | Posted 05.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Renewable Energy, Energy, Antarctica, Antarctic Energy, Green News

Cynics see the bases in a more sinister light: by claiming a presence in the Antarctic, one is better-positioned to exploit the local resources should...

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"Glacial Pace" Not As Slow As Hoped, Sea Levels To Rise

AP | ELIANE ENGELER | Posted 03.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Antarctic Icemelt, Climate Change, Global Warming, Antarctica, Green News

GENEVA — Glaciers in Antarctica are melting faster and across a much wider area than previously thought, a development that threatens to raise s...

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World Environment Ministers Mix Science And Politics In Antarctica

AP | CHARLES J. HANLEY | Posted 03.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Antarctica, Climate Change, Green Politics, Global Warming, Kyoto Protocol, Copenhagen 2009, Green News

TROLL RESEARCH STATION, Antarctica — Policymakers met polar explorers on the boundless ice of Antarctica Monday as a U.S.-Norwegian scientific e...

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Belgium Opens $26M Polar Climate Change Station

AP | CONSTANT BRAND | Posted 03.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Change, Global Warming, Belgium, Princess Elisabeth Station, Antarctica, Green News

BRUSSELS — Belgium opened a new 20 million euro ($26 million) "zero emissions" polar science station in Antarctica on Sunday, returning to the c...

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Protesters, Whalers Fight Over Use Of Illegal Weapons

The Japan Times Online | Posted 03.05.2009 | World

Read More: Environment, Antarctica, Steve Irwin, "Sea Shepherd Conservation Society", Protest, Whaling, Japan, Paul Watson, World News

The hardline antiwhaling group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society on Monday accused Japanese whalers of using illegal weapons systems to repel its vess...

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Antarctic Visitors Used To Dine On Seal Brains, Penguin Breasts

Reuters | Posted 02.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Seals, Eating Matters, Penguins, Animals, Antarctica, Green News

"Seal brains ... I would consider one of the delicacies and luxuries of the Antarctic, and was enjoyed by most members of the base when I was chef," t...

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Obama Sends Biden on 'Special Mission' to Antarctica

Andy Borowitz | Posted 01.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hendrick Hertzberg, Borowitz Report, Andy Borowitz, Jonathan Alter, Jill Biden, Antarctica, Joe Biden, Judy Gold, John Roberts, Barack Obama, Biden Antarctica, Politics News

The president was vague about what the mission to Antarctica would entail, but he did indicate that it could take "up to four years."

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Breathe Deep the Green Winds of Change, Just in Time

Jerry Cope | Posted 02.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Barak Obama, Antarctica, Ipcc, 350.Org, North Carolina Obama, Environment, James Hansen, Climate Change, Bill Mckibben, Global Warming, Green News

Will Congress and the American people give our new President and his administration the support necessary to embark on the path to a long term sustainable future not only for ourselves, but the world?

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Sea Shepherds Offers Truce If Whalers Go To Court

Reuters | Posted 02.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Sea Shepherd, Australia, Animal Rights, Sea Shepherd Truce Offer, Antarctica, Whaling, Animals, Whales, Japan, Paul Watson, Green News

Anti-whaling activists are prepared to end aggressive protests against Japan's scientific whale cull if Australia or New Zealand agree to challenge th...

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US proposes protecting 7 penguin species

AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 01.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Endangered Species, Penguins, Climate Change Penguins, Climate Change, Southern Rockhopper Penguin, Environment, President Bush, President Obama, Fish and Wildlife Service, Antarctica, The March of the Penguins, Green News

WASHINGTON — Seven penguin species have reason to have happy feet: The Bush administration is moving to protect them. But three other types of p...

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DVDs: Werner Herzog's Peripatetic Career

Michael Giltz | Posted 12.22.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Otis Redding, Werner Herzog, Antarctica, Soul, Griffith, TV Shows, Dvds, Movies, Rock and Roll, Rod Serling, Stax, Entertainment News

Werner Herzog is well into one of the most eclectic, odd and engaging movie careers, one that jumps from personal epics to quixotic documentary films, and now even Hollywood spectacles.

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Unprecedented warming, melting forces Arctic tourist evacuation

Todd Carmichael | Posted 08.09.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Climate Change, Antarctica, Todd Carmichael, Global Warming, Expedition Earth, Arctic, Green News

If the 21 tourists evacuated from the Baffin Islands yesterday weren't convinced that we're near a climate change tipping point they are now. Accordi...

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Sea Levels Rising: What You Need To Know

Grist | Umbra Fisk | Posted 07.24.2008 | Green

Read More: Glaciers, Rising Sea Level, Antarctica, Climate Change, Environment, Melting Ice Caps, Sea Level, Extreme Weather, Ice Shelf, Green News

Q. Dear Umbra, I'm a bit confused about the possible rise in sea level that may be caused by global warming. I know that in general water expands whe...

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Something Strange is Happening at the Coldest, Driest Place on Earth

Todd Carmichael | Posted 07.24.2008 | Green

Read More: Antarctica, Climate Change, Antarctic Ice Shelf, Environment, Antartica Ice, Todd Carmichael, Global Warming, Expedition Earth, Green News

For someone who has experienced "freaky weather" in the Antarctic up close and personal, reports this week that baby Antarctic penguins are freezing to death due to "freak rain storms," came as no surprise.

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Global warming up close and personal on the edge of the earth

Todd Carmichael | Posted 07.19.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Climate Change, Travel, Antarctica, Explorer's Club, Global Warming, Green News

The massive Wilkins Ice Shelf in the Antarctic is collapsing while you read this article. Will this latest news make us think twice about jumping int...

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